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LOUIS BURG, N. CAROLINA FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1030
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NUMBER '35
TOBACCO MARKET RE OPENS
I
Half Million
Pounds Offered
Warehouses Overfilled By
Saturday; Prices Satisfac
tory Under Existing Cir
cumstances; Average
Around 14 Cents
The second opening of the
Louisburg tobacco markt for the
1939 season took place on Tues
day with a town full of tobacco
and a full days sale without com
pleting two houses. The selling
was brisk, steady and continuous
and the results were generally
satisfactory, under the existing
conditions which were recognized
by the sellers who did not expect
any big price. ~
Quite a lot of damaged tobacco
was on the flqors, because of hav- j
ing been prepared for sale so long
and because of being exposed on
the floor for several days, add^dj
to the big crop.
Some of the lower grades
brought a fair price while many
of the middle to better grades ap
peared to be oW.
The general average was re- 1
ported to be around 14 cents fori
Tuesday and Wednesdays sales,
and many who had visited all sur- }
rounding markets remarked that !
Louisburg was up with any and j
ahead of others in prices.
Louisburg invites you to its !
market with the assurance of
every courtesy, consideration and j
the highest prices possible.
AGAIN TO APPEAR
IN LOUISBURG
Winstead's Mighty Minstrels!
show will appear here for their
second time on Thursday, Oct. !
19th, and it is said it's one show
that lives up to it's word, that it
a good and clean show all the way
through. They give up one entire
side of their large tent to the
white people. The siiow? this
time, they say, will outdo all pre- 1
vious efforts. Enjoy a good ev-;
ening of entertainment. See their
announcement on another page. |
INTERMEDIATE EPWORTH
LEAGUE
The Intermediate Epworth Lea- i
gue of the Louisburg Methodist
Church met at the home of Mrs.
Wm. Andrews the last week in
August and elected ne# officers
for the new year, which began
October 1st, as follows:
President ? Jane Moon.
Vice - President ? Talmadge
Thomas.
Sec'y. & Treas.? Betsy Cobb.
, Bible Drill Captain ? Virginia j
Howard.
The work for the new year
started with a very beautiful and
Impressive candlelight installation j
service at the regular church serv
ice on Sunday night, October 1st, 1
at which time the officers of both
Senior and Intermediate Leagues
were installed. The retiring pre
sidents of both Senior and Inter
mediate Leagues ? Mr. Cary How- |
ard, Jr., and Miss Eleanor Beas
ley ? also took part.
Our Intermediate League is
well organized. We invite all
young people between the ages of
12 and 15, who are not affiliated
with any other young people's
group, to Join us in our Sunday
night meeting. We meet from
6:45 to 7:30 In the church.
Leader for Sunday, October 15,
is Betsy Cobb and the topic:
"Health of My Community", scrip
ture Luke 10: 25-37 and Mark
10: 46-52.
MILLS P. T. A.
The regular monthly meeting
of Mills P. T. A. will be held
Thursday, Oct. 19, at 3:20 in
Mills auditorium, according to
announcement of the President.
Character and School Education
will be Interestingly discussed.
Please come, we will be expecting
you.
PROGRAM AT THE
LOUISBURG THEATRE
The following Is the program I
at the Louisburg Theatre begin
ning Saturday, Oct. 14th:
Saturday ? Double Feature ?
3 Mesquiteers in "New Frontier" j
and Lee Tracy in "The Spellbin
der," also last chapttr of "Dare- 1
devils of the Red Circle."
Sunday ? Cary Grant, Carole
Lombard and Kay Francis in "In i
Name Only.
Monday-Tuesday? Zorlna with !
Eddie Albert In "On Your Toes."
Wednesday ? Return Showing
? Maureen O'Sullivan and John
ny Welsmullei^ln "Tarzan Finds ,
a Son" with Afnny Sheffield as
the boy.
v Thursday - Friday ? Barbara
Stanwyck and Aodlph Menjou In
"Golden Boy" with William Hold
en, a new star discovery.
Views Of
Louisburg
Ty Saunders, Universal News
reel cameraman, was scheduled to
go to Louisburg Wednesday and
shoot pictures of the town's zoned
sidewalks. Stripes painted on the
concrete mark it into sections for
through pedestraln traffic and for
"loafers".
Those who want their path free
from casual -groups of the iinhur
ried may breeze down a walkway
to themselves. And those who pre
fer to swap their conversation on
the sidewalk without being dump
ed by streams of passers-by may
gossip in safety.
Town fathers called a special
meeting and zoned the sidewalks
when Saturday pedestrian traffic
made walking a slow motion ver
sion of broken field running.
Sanders will take shots of the
State Fair, and vigit Thanksgiving
a community abo^t 15 miles
South of Raleigh, to see if he can
whip up a picture or two. Then
he shoots films of Jugtown, the
pottery center in the Western part
of the State.
The above was taken from the
Raleigh Times of Wednesday.
"He came; He Saw; He Con
quered."
Sanders visited Louisburg ac
cording to his plans, found the
stage all set and got the pictures
desired. The result is the Nation
will be given an opportunity to
see the initiative and preservance
of small towns which play so big
a part in a great Nation. It is in
small Communities of this kind
that human Nature reveals itself
in a Natural form and thereby
makes life worth more to live,
Thank You. Mr. Sanders. Come
again. We will" give you something
uewer.
LOUISBURG BAJfTIST
CHURCH
Dr. A. Paul Bagby delivered a
timely message 0:1 the topic,
"What Has My Religion Done for
Me?" using as the text, "For I
say unto you, that except your
righteousness shall exceed the
righteousness of the scribes and
Pharisees, ye shall in no case en
ter into the Kingdom of Heaven."
If religion has meant to one
what it should in reality it must
possess- man's inner life and atti
tudes and be outwardly expressed
in actions.
"Some questions that test us as
to what our religion has done for
us," the Pastor said, are these:
Has it made me gloomy or happy?
Has it made me arrogant or hum
ble? What attitude do I have to
ward God and my fellow men?
Has my religion made me a cow
ard or has It mader me bold? Has
it made me greedy or generous?
Has it made me hypocritical or
has it made me genuine? "What
has my religion done for me?"
Dr. H. A. Bagby, brother of the
pastor, will preach at the eleven
o'clock worship hour next Sunday.
The pastor preaches at the even
ing hour on "Young People and
T^ieir Enemies."
Sunday School at 9:45 A. M.
Come to your departmental as
semblies on time.
Baptist Training Union at 6:45
P. M.
COTTON REPORT
Census report shows that there
Were 1353 bales of cotton ginned
in Franklin County from the crop
of 1939 prior to Oct. 1, 1939 as
compared with 45 bales ginned to
Oct. 1, 1938 crop of 1938.
NO DISCRIMINATION
Washington, Oct. 11. ? Repre
sentative Harold Cooley was as
sured by Department of Agricul
ture officials today that in the
election of local tobacco quota
fixing committees there would be
no voting discrimination against
growers who failed to cooperate
this year.
The Nashville Congressman was
advised that if growers certified
that they intend to cooperate in
next year's production control pro
gram, they will be eligible to vote
for commltteement.
Only farmers, however, who
, complied this year will be eligible
to be elected committeemen to ad
minister next year's program,
Cooley was told.
In a county where less than
2il per cent of the growers com
plied with this year's soil conserv
ation program a non-cooperative
grower may be elected commit
teemen.
Cooley snld there was much in
terest In the State regarding the
qualification for voting In the
elections to select quota commit
teemen, pointing out that Gover
nor Clyde R. Hoi* had wired the
Department of Agriculture on the
subject. j
Dr. Glenn at Methodist Meetings
The annual Methodist revival
will begin at the Louisburg Meth
odist Church on next Sunday, Oc
tober 15. Dr. John G. Glenn will
be the visiting preacher, _ begin
ning Sunday evening at the 7:30
Service.
Dr. Glenn is pastor of the
Edenton Street Methodist Church'
in Raleigh, the leading congrega
tion of the North Carolina Con
ference. Dr. Glenn is a native
of Alabama, and a descendant of
former Governor Glenn, of North
Carolina. His last work before
coming to Raleigh was that of
Presiding Elder of the Kansas
; Cily District, where he attended
I the Uniting Conference as a dele
gate last spring.
The public is cordially invited
to be present 011 Sunday evening
I at 7:30 and at the same hour
each evening during the coming I
week. An old fashioned Metho
dist song service will begin j
promptly at 7:3tf P. M. each day.
Morning services frill he held
in the court room at the Frank- j
| I in County Court House at 1> : 0 o
| o'clock beginning Monday morn-J
1 ing when Dr. Glenn will speek.
Some of the sermon topics tO|
l>e used by the visiting preacher
are: "What Religion Dors for a1
Man," "The Strangest T hi n ^
Christ Kver Did," "Linht Ileal' !
ers," "What Can Religion Do
, For Me That 1 "Can't Get Djme
Anywhere F.lSe?'^ "Three Steps I
: to God," "If I Were a College j
Boy Again."
The Pastor. Mr. Phillips, will
j preach next Sunday morning on ,
the topic, "Time for Clod."
TO ELECT TOWNSHIP
COMMITTEEMEN IN OCTOBER
The Franljlin County Agripul
tural Conservation Association
will elect Township and County
Committeemen during the month j
of October.
These Committeemen will be
elected and function in determin- '
ing 1940 flue-cured tobacco allot
ments and other allotments under
the 1940 Agricultural Conserva
tion Program. Great interest was
shown by Franklin. County tobac
co farmers in the recent tobacco
referendum for flue-cured tobac
co. Over 4000 farmers in Franklin
County voted in the referendum
with 3417 voting in favor of a
1940 control program. The Ad
ministration of the Program In
Franklin County wants you to
vote and play your part in the
election of the members of Com
mittees. They are not only inter
ested in your playing a part in
the selection of the members, but
they want you to support them
100% after^ they are elected
through advising, cooperating and
working with them. The best and
most desirable persons in your
township will not and cannot ef
ficiently serve unless the farmers
of your township uphold and sup
port them openly against unfair
criticism and false or unproven
accusations. We know that a Com
mittee cannot be selected that will
make no mistakes, but we also
know that If the leading farmers
in any township advise with their
committee and call their atten
tions to the mistakes made that
the Committees In turn will make
every effort possible to make cor
rections. It is the spirit of cooper
ation that we are Interested in
seeing started as we know that
it is only through these steps
that a Committee can properly
serve the farmers in their Com
munity.
The duties of the Committee
men are: 1 ? To determine farm
acreage allotments, normal yields,
and soil-bulldtng goals; 2. To de
termine farm marketing quotas,
when applicable; to handle local
administration of commodity
loans and wheat crop insurance;
3. To assist in explaining to farm
ers the purposes and provisions of
the program; and perform such
other duties as may be prescribed
by Agricultural Adjustment Ad
ministration.
The Administration recom
mends the following kind of men
for Committeemen:
(1) Men familiar with farming)
conditions In the county and com- j
munity and who are successful In
thtfir own farming operations;
(2)n Men with ability to assist ?
in educational "work in connection
with t lie program, explain to far
mers its purposes and aims, show
how allotments and yields are
established, and point out ways in
which the provisions of the pro
gram can he best adapted to tile
needs of individual farms.
(3) Men who will further the
objectives of the program through
the establishment of equitable al
lotments and yields, and proper
soil-building goals, that will re
flect painstaking and Impart! 1
consideration of all facts pertain
ing to the establishment of such
allotments, yields, and goals;
(4) Men who can keep them
selves Informed on the program
generally and capable of develop
ing suggestions by farmers for Its
betterment.
The following farmers are elig
ible to serve s Committeemen If,
as provided in the Articles of
Association: tie shall have quali
fied for an Agricultural Conserva
tion Payment under the 1939 pro
gram, does not hold a major elec
tive office nor engage in political
activity and will not use his posi
tion us committeeman to promote
private business activities In
which they have an Interest.
The following farmers will be
eligible to vote in the election of
Committeemen: Any producer
(landlord, operator, tenant or
share-cropper) who has an in
terest in the operation of a farm
in the community and who par
ticlpatedMn the 1939 program or
indicates in writlhg his intention
to participate in the 1940 pro
gram.
Final plans have not yet been
made for electing committeemen,
however, the following facts will
be helpful In making your plans
to select your desired committee
men: Each Township will select
one delegate and one alternate
delegate to County Convention.
These delegates will meet at the
County Convention and will select
a County Committee consisting of
three members and a first and
second alternate. They will de
signate one member as Chairman,
one as Vice Chairman, one as reg
ular member, one as first alternate
and one as second alternate and
will also elect a Secretary and
Treasurer to County Committee.
The delegate ,nnd alternate dele
gate may also serve as member of
Township Committee if elected.
Each Township will also elect
Township Committee consisting
of .three members ? Chairman.
Vice Chairman, regular member
and then select a first and second
Alternate. Even though the policy
European
Summary
Berlin. ? (irrnuin naval observ
ers (iuim Germany controls North 1
Sen ; air ministry orders new
large-scale operations against
blockading British fleet.
Ignition. ? Britain announces
trade agreement with Kussia; im
portant political results looked
lor; , government discloses that i
1 58,000 British soldiers now in !
France.
?Moscow. ? Northern Kuropeun
states reported urging Britain and
France to make peace with tier- 1
many so (icrmany can help check i
Kiissiau expansion; Finnish de
legation arrives for negotiations.
Helsinki. ? Finns prepare to de- ,
fend country against any Russian
move at domination; civilians
evacuatel from Helsinki and
Viipuri; military measures taken.
I'm-is^Uermaii army and air
force pressure reported increas
ing on Western Front between
Kliinc and Moselle rivers.
New York. ? "Tlircatencd"
American liner Iroquois enters
New York harbor safely with Un
ited States naval convoy.
Washington. ? Senator Clafk
(l?., Mo.,) in neutrality debate, I
accuses President Koosevelt of as
suming unlimited emergency pow
ers; Senator Iturke (1)., Neb.,)
urges repeal of arms embargo to j
protect I'nited Stales from "Hit- ;
lerlsm."
STILL t'.VI'Tl BKB IN
FKANKL1N
County ABC officer Joe Joy nor
reported Saturday that .seizure of
a tiO-gallon copper still at the.
head of Mittchiners Pond, four
miles west of Louisburg. Over ;
2.000 gallon* of inasli was poured I
out and the complete distilling I
outfit Was destroyed. The still was
in lull operation at the (line of:
the raid but the operator or oper- I
a lore evidently tied at hearirig~t1re~j
officers' approach. Officer Joy tier J
was assisted mi the raid by Slier- t
iff, .John P. Moore and Deputies j
Fred Frazzier and I). T. Holmes. |,
i'RK.ICIIINU AT fOlR'f HOISK
In connection with t tie meet- i
iugs at the Methodist Church next
week there will he a series of |
community religious services at
the KrHiiliLin County Court House. ;
Oil Monday morning the service |
will he at nine and on the other
-mornings the hour will be 8:30, j
so that the benediction may be
said before the hour for the Sup
erior Court session.
Ministers of various denomina-i
tions will speak, thus emphasiz
ing the community nature of these
down-town services. On Tuesday j
morning Dr. A. Paul Bagby of [
the Louisburg Baptist Church will
speak. On Wednesday the speak
er will be Kev. L. F. Kent of
St. l'aul Kpiscopal On Monday
:ind Thursday Dr. John C. Glenn,
j of Kdenton St. Methodist Church,;
1 Kaleigh. will give the message. |
Farmers who are in town to
| sell tobacco are urged to take
time to come to the services. Bach
1 business place is urged to send as
many employees as can be spared
at the time. AH citizens arc in
vited.
ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL
CHURCH
This will be the nineteenth
| Sunday after Trinity. There will
be the early celebration of the
(Holy Communion at 8:00 A. M. 1
| Church School will meet at 9:46 |
A. M. Morning Prayer will be
read at 11:00 A. M. The fourth j
sermon in the series on the
Church will be delivered. The
| special subject this Sunday will
J be "Truth in the Church."
The Young People's Service
| League will meet in the Rectory
I at 6:30 P. M.
I There will be a celebration of
the Holy Communion Fcj^day mor
ning at 9:45, followed by the Wo
man's Auxiliary Bible Class.
On Friday evening there will
be a vestry meeting In the Rec
tory at 7:30. ,
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of electing these men has not been ;
definitely determined, the follow
ing suggestions will possibly be |
followed. A meeting wfll be called
by the present Chairman of each
Township Committee who will be
the presiding Officer at the meet
ing. Notice of this meeting will
be made 7 days prior to the meet
ing At the meeting nominations
for delegate will be made from
the floor with not less than two !
persons being nominated as can-1
dldate for delegate. All persons
then will vote secret ballot and |
ithe one receiving majority of
votes will be delegate. This pro- j
cadura will then possibly be fol- j
iJfiwed for Alternate delegate, |
Chairman of Township Commit- 1
tee. Vice Chairman, Regular mem
ber and first and second Alter- ,
nates, ,
Recorder's Court
i ?? " j
Franklin Recorder's Court held j
regular session on Tuesday and i
disposed of cases as follows:
Dad Ziegler was found guilty
of unlawful possession of whiskey
and given 60 days on roads, sus
pended upon payment of $10 line
and costs.
Graham Lindsay, found guilty
of abandonment and uon-support,
and given 6 months on roads, ex
ecution not to issue upon payment
of $15$ per month and costs of
Court. *
Billie Ferrell plead guilty to
speeding, judgment suspended
upon, payment of costs.
Lewis Johnson plead guilty to
larceny, prayer for judgment con- 1
tinued.
Fletcher Beasley plead guilty
to motor vehicle violation, given
60 days' on roads, suspended upon
payment of $10 fine and costs.
Not guilty of operating automo
bile intoxicated.
Holland Galloway was found j
not guilty of assault with deadly
weapon.
Ed Davis, alias James Kerby,
plead guilty to escape and larceny I
and was given 12 months on roads !
to begin at expiration of pi'esefat
sentence.
The following cases were con- j
tinued:
Wesley MerriU, unlawful pos
session of whiskey. .
James Yarborough. assault with
deadly weapon.
Floyd Myrick Parrish, operat
ing. automobile intoxicated.
Cary Horton. assault with dead
ly weapon.
Charlie Johnson, manufactur
ing whiskey. '
L. L. Wilder, operating auto
mobile intoxicated.
H. A. Arnold, larceny.
Fdna Lucille Waller, reckless
drivijig.
M.TPLii nun. falsely obtaining 1
drivers license.
Booster Stalling^, manufactur
ing whiskey.
POU, LARKIN NAMED
KENTUCKY COLONELS
Frankfort. Ky., Oct. 9. ? Gov.
A. II. Chandler commissioner ap
pointed approximately 80 new
Kentucky Colonels today before
lie resigned to l>e appointed to the
United States Senate.
Those receiving honorary de
signations included:
George Koss I'ou, North Caro
lina State Auditor, Kaleigh, N.
C.,.and State Senator John D.
Lark in. Jr.. Trenton. N. C.
COLLEGE PLAYEIW
The Louishurg College Players
have selected as tlieir first pro
duction of the current year Juliet
Wilhor Tompkins' "Once There j
Was a Princess." ; The following j
cast has been selected by Miss
Virginia Peyatt, Director: Prin-J
cess Oellatorre. Alice Cahill, of j
Winston-Salem; Signor Moroni. I
Clyde Stallings, of Morehead
City; The Old Princess. Frances
Brown, of Gatesville; Hazel Boyd,
Janice Perry, of Louisburg; Mrs.
Boyd, Genevieve Senacal, of
North Adams. Massachusetts;
Mrs. Purrington, Lil Cope, of
Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Seaver,
Lorraine Hood, of Mount Olive; I
Ruby Boyd. Laura E. Gardner, of'
Macon; Aunt Meta Trimble, Peg-;
gy Ford, of Louisburg; Joe Boyd,
Emmltte Harrison, of Hamlet;
Phil Lennox, Lester Stallings,
Hobbsville; Milton D'Arcy, Bob
by Waters, of Wilmington; Jose
phine, Mary West, of Dover; Jen
nie, Mlldren Pope, of Millbrook;
Ada, Elizabeth Miller, of Wil
mington; Servant, Bobby Page,
of Wilmington.
'POCKET' U-BOATS
Washington. Oct.' 11. ? Presi
dent Roosevelt todfty received
unofficial report that Germany
has commercial ocean vessels
capable of "plant ing" 100-ton
"pocket submarines" across the
Atlantic "like rows of corn."
After calling on Mr. I too so volt,
John Tazewell Jones, for 22 years
an American importer In nrazll,
told newspapermen he had relat
ed to the President tlie following
incident :
Shortly l>efore the outbreak of
war, Jones said, he had talked
with a German ship captain who
unloaded three OA-ton locomotives
at Bahia. The locomotives were
far too heavy for the cranes of
the Brazilian port to handle.
Jones expressed amazement at
the power of the ship's cranes.
Ho wan told, he continued, that
the vessel could carry and lower
oven-board "pocket submarines"
carrying 12 men each and with
torpedo equipment capable of
sinking large ships.
The German captain also told '
lilin, he said, that the ship could
pick up the submarines after
ward, before they ran short of
fuel. ?
WAR IN EUROPE
Berlin, Oct. 10. ? Thursday) ?
Expert German naval observers
asserted today that Germany con
trols the North Sea, both on the
surface and In the air, and that
the Reich's mastery over waters
where British sea power previous
ly had been unchallenged had
been demonstrated effectively.
The comment of naval authori
ties was published by DNB, offic
ial German news agency, as
squadrons of German warplanes
stood ready to carry out new or
ders for continuation of extensive
operations against blockading
British warships.
Naval authorities declared sev
eral British ships had been dam
aged extensively in a plane-war
ship battle in the North Sea Mon
day.
(The British Admiralty has
consistently denied that any dam
age has been suffered by the
North Sea fleet in repeated air
naval encounters.)
At the same time, however, it
was admitted that four of Field
Marshal Hermann Goering's bom
bing planes which took part in.
the engagement off the Nor
wegian coast had failed to return
to thdir home hangars. Two were
reported to have made emergency
landings in Denmark, while two
were unaccounted for and possib
ly lost.
In extended comment, DNB ob
served that "the time of unchal
lenged British mastery over the
North Sea is past for all time,"
and added that it proved beyond
question that all of the east and
north coasts of the British Isle3
were easily within effective range
of German bombers.
Moscffw, Oct. 11.- ? Nervous
Northern European states were
reported unofficially tonight to be
looking to Germany ? if she could
be released from her war in the
west ? to aid them in halting
Soviet Russia's bloodless military
and diplomatic conquests.
These powers were described as
urging Britain and France to end
hostilities against Germany, be
lieving that if Germany were at
peace with the Western powers,
she could prevent Russia from
dominating Eastern Europe.
Finland, whose delegation ar
rived here today for talks with
Soviet leaders, and Sweden were
reported to be especially anxious
over the turn of events in the
Baltic and hopeful that France
and Britain could see their way .
to an early peace.
(The British foreign office de
clined tonight to comment on the
report that Sweden and. Finland
were urging peace.)
Obviously refusing to be hurri
ed as those of other Baltic states,
the Finnish delegation did not
go to the Kremlin tonight;Jbut
will go there tomorrow. r
The delegation had been expect
ed to start the talks this after
noon or tonight. The delegation
will seek to find out just what
the U. S. S. R. wants of Finland
and then go back to Helsinki to
report to the cabinet.
, The arrival of the Finnish dele
gation. headed by Dr. Juho Kustl
Paasikivi. one-time premier and
now minister to Sweden, came on
the heels of the announcement ot
a Soviet pact with Lithuania,
This, added to previous accords
with Estonia and Latvia, complet
ed transformation of these three
sjuall Baltic states into a virtual
Soviet protectorate.
Yilnu Returned
The Lithuanian pact provided
for the return to Lithuania ot her
hisoric capital Wilpo (Vilna) and
the Wllno region, seized October
9, 1920, by the "rebel" Polish
iGeneral Lucjan Zellgowskl.
In exchange, however, the
I Soviets got the right to place an
undertermlned number of troops
in the province, which foreign ob
servers expected to be placed
along the new frontier with Ger
many.
In the bargains Russia drove
with the three small Baltic states,
she gained points for the garrl-""
soning of thousands of troops,
bases for warships and warplanes,
and trade and transport conces
sions. ' ,
The Finnish delegation arrived
' in Moscow at a time Soviet troops
Vere massed on. Finland's border
and Russian men, warplanes and';,
warships were concentrated else
I where in the region.
There was every indication that
the Finns were refusing to be
j rushed Into any pact, especially If
it Involves territorial concessions.
(In Helsinki, a civilian exodus
wag under way. The Finnish gov
ernment was said to be taking
every precaution to meet any situ
ation which might develop If
Passlklvi were confronted with de
, mands which the Finns might re
gard as Impairment ot their sover
eignty.)^ ?,*
It was believed in foreign
circles here - that Finland was
counting heavily on the backing of
Sweden. While the Finns were
understood to he prepared to
grant certain concessions, If worst
comes to worst they were believed
ready to fight.
There aren't a lot of fellows
who can afford to spend their va
>Rtii>n at the seashore. And neUh
er ;caij a Jot ot folks who do.
1 ? if