The Sylva The Herald is dedicated to progressive service to Jack son ... A progressive, well balancc*d county. VOL. XXI, NO. 20 SYLVA, N. C., Thursday, October 17, 1946 $2.00 A Year?5c Copy V.f.W. Declare Warfare On Communists, Fascists Stand Is In Accordance J With Resolutions Adopted By National Encampment Open, relentless warfare against Communists, Fascists and members of all subversive organizations in this country has been declared by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, ac cording to Commander Joe Clyde Fisher of Post 8060. "The Veterans of Foreign Wars is now on record with the demand that Communists be barred from places on any state or federal bal lots," Commander Fisher said. "Furthermore, we are taking new precautions to prevent members of any subversive group from infil trating our organization." This militant stand against the exponents of alien ideologies is in accordance with resolutions adopt ed by the recent National En campment of the V. F. W. in Bos ton. Communists and "fellow travelers" of other subversive or gan for heavy fire from encampment delegates and several of the nationally known speakers appearing on the program. One of the resolutions asked that "a bill be sponsored in the Con gress of the United States to abol ish and prohibit the Communist Party or any other subversive or ganization from appearing on any ballot" in the 48 states or U. S. possessions. "Any foreigner who lands in this country and who becomes a Com munist, is, according to the present ruling of the Department of Jus tice, considered a political foe and must be deported," the resolution said. "Therefore, membership in the Communist Party and agree ment with its aims is reason /(?nd cause for arrest and deporttfrafr." The resolution was ottered by U. S. Treasury Post 240# of the District of Columbia. By another resolution, the V. F. W. changed its membership appli cation form to include the ques tion: "Are you a member or sup porter of any subversive group?" Applicants answering such ques tions in the affirmative will be re fused membership, Commander Fisher said, and any member who gives a false answer can be ex pelled. Sy!ya And Canton High To Meet October 25th The Sylva Golden Hurricanes will meet a strong Canton eleven on the home field Friday, October 25th, at 7:30 p. m. The game will be sponsored by the Boy Scout Troops. [ALLISON AND WARD BUY PUREBRED HEREFORD CATTLE Dan Allison, business man and farmer of Sylva, purchased three purebred Hereford cows at the Haywood county Livestock show on October 9th. Glen Ward, pro gressive farmer of the Beta com munity purchased one purebred Hereford cow at this sale. These cows have been placed on the farms of these gentlemen to be used for breeding purposes in building up their herds. The pur chase price of the cows was not stated but cows of this type brought several hundred dollars each during the sale following the show in Waynesville. More cattle of this type are needed on Jack son county farms, and these men are to be congratulated on bring ing cattle of this type into the county. DAISY SMITH RETURNS WITH LEADER DOG Miss Daisy Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Smith of Syl va, and her Leader Dog, Ace, have returned from Rochester and De troit, Mich, and Miss Smith has gone back to Western Carolina Teachers College, where she is a junior this year. Miss Smith trained for her dog, a German Boxer, at the Leader Dog League in Rochester and be fore returning home spent a few day visiting her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Troy Lee Davis in Detroit. MJjp Smith and Ace flew to KnosJHIltf and were met there by hef parents. H.D.C. Council Meets The Council of the Jackson County Home Demonstration clubs met in the Home Agent's office Thursday, October 10, with Mrs. B. E. Gray, vice president, presid ing in the absence of the president, Mrs. D. C. Higdon. Mrs. Don Fisher acted as secretary in the absence of Mrs. A. K. Hinds. Among the business matters dis cussed was a fair to be held. The Council voted to cooperate in hold ing a fair next year. This is to take the place of achievement days held durihg the past. , Present at the meeting were: Mrs. B. E. Gray of the Dillsboro club; Mrs. Raymond Sutton, Sylva club; Mrs. Victor Brown, Cullowhee club; and Miss Josephine Johnston, home agent. SOUTHERN RAILWAY RECEIVES AWARD FOR W A R ACHIEVEMENT The Southern Railway System on October 18 will receive a "Cer tificate of Achievement" from the United States Navy in recognition o: the tremendous iob which the railway did in moving millions of Naval personnel during the war and during the demobilization pe riod. The award is the highest that the Biireau of Naval Personnel can give to an individual or organiza tion unit affiliated with the United States Navy. It will be presented to the railway by Admiral Louis Denfield at a luncheon meeting in Chicago. Coincident with the presentation of the achievement award to the railway, a citation will be given to Ernest E. Norris, president of the Southern. Participating in the ceremony, in addit on to Admiral Denfield, will be other high-ranking Navy, Gov ernment and railroad officials, in cluding Under Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan; Rear Ad miral J. L. Holloway, Jr., assistant chief of Naval personnel and re cently appointed superintendent of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis: Colonel J. Monroe Johnson, director of the Office of Defense Transportation; and John J. Pelly, president of the Associa tion of American Railroads. Hugh W. Siddall, chairman of the Inter national Military Committee, will act as toastmaster. HENSON ANNOUNCES REGISTRARS FOR COMING ELECTION Mr. John Henson, chairman of Jackson County Board of Elections, has announced names of registrars for the various precincts of the county who will conduct the voting at their respective precincts in the general election on Tuesday, No vember 5, and who will be in charge of the registration books for registering eligible voters on Sat urday, October 19 and 26. The registrars and precincts are as follows: C. L. Dillard, Cashiers; Fred j Bryson, Hamburg; Mrs. Pearl j Stewart, Mountain; L. D. Moody, , River No. 1; Oscar Wike, River j No. 2; Spurgeon Middleton, Can ada No. 1; D. M. Shelton, Canada No. 2; Earl Sutton, Cullowhee; Jim Potts, Caney Fork; J. N. Cowan, > Webster; Harley Buchanan, Sa- 1 vannah; Joe Whetmore, Greens ' Creek; Grady Martin, Qualla; Ber; . Jones, Barkers Creek; Willie Sut- I ton, Dillsboro; Wilma Jcnes, South I Sylva; David Parris, North Sylva;j Clyde Bryson, Scotts Creek No. 1; : Price Dillard, Scotts Creek No. 2; George Bryson, Scotts Creek No. 3. It is estimated that the cotton carry-over will be slightly over 4 million bales on August 1 next year, as compared with 7Vfc mil lion this year. SOSSAMON'S... in Sylva Lola Prisoner BELIEVED to be one of the Ameri cans held captive by savage Lok> tribesmen of China Is Capt. An drew Lungbotham (above), Pasa dena, Calif. He was pilot ct the plane carrying 31 passengers which is reported to have crashed in west ern China. The passengers* say news dispatches, were captured .after a gun battle. (International) Marion Uridgvn Wins Ftyinfe Clyde Fisher j has announced that the Frank and , Herman Ea.ley post 8060 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will i meet Friday night, October 18, atj the courthouse at 7 o'clock. All | members are urged to attend the < meeting nnd any one elrgible for the organization is invited to join, j At a recent meeting members j of the VFW voted to sponsor a basketball team and season tickets have already been printed. They may be secured by contacting a member of the organization. UP TO 70 POUNDS MAY 60 AIRMAIL 10 SOLDIERS OVERSEAS new postal regulations you can send your soldier overseas letters or parcels weighing from eight ounces to 70 pounds by airmail, depending on where he is serving, Major George F. Heinz, Postal Of ficer, Seventh Army, said today. Formerly, airmail addressed through Army Post Office num bers, care Postmasters in New York or San Francisco, was limited to two ounces. That weight for let ters or parcels has now been raised to eight ounces. Parcels not to exceed 70 pounds in weight may be sent to military personnel or civilians entitled to an APO number, in care of Post masters in Miami, Fla.; New Or leans, La., or Seattle, Wash. The wide difference in weights acceptable at the various ports is explained by the number of mili tary personnel serving in various theaters and the distances involved. New York, it is stated, handles the European theater mail. San Fran cisco handles letters and parcels i addressed to personnel in the Pa cific, Hawaii, the Philippines, Korea and Japan. From these two ports the limit by airmail is eight ounces. Seattle, Wash, handles mail to the Alaskan area. Miami, Fla. serves the Antilles Department and points in South America. New Orleans handles mail for the Pana ma Canal Zone, Ecuador and Peru. These, being comparatively short hauls by air, permit airmail parcels up to 70 pounds, Major Heinz explained. FFA CHAPTER AT CULLOWHEE TO SPONSOR FAIR Under the direction of C. G. Phillips, vocational agriculture teacher of the Western Carolina Teachers College training school, the' Cullowhee Community Fair, sponsored by the Cullowhee FFA chapter, will be held Friday, Oc tober 18, on the college grounds. A morning program in the Hoey ^auditorium will feature an address by Mrs. E. L. McKee of Sylva, and a motion pictU^c~on forestry. Cash prizes will be awarded in all events featured which includes a vege table, fruit and livestock division to be judged by the county agent i and his staff, a canned and baked foods division to be judged by the home economics staff of the train ing school, and a baby health con test to be judged by the county health unit. Exhibits will be dis played throughout the day in the Breese gymnasium. Ashe interviews 143 Veterans in Month of Sept? A total of 143 veterans were in terviewed during the month of September by T. Walter Ashe, Service Officer for the William E. Dillard Post }04 of the American Legion. This figure shows a slight decline over the previous month. In the breakdown on the figures Mr. Ashe staled that two inter views were for education; three: for Public Law 346, which deals J with job training; nine for pen- i sions; six for farmer training and 120 for miscellaneous interviews, j Only 10 Nazi war criminals were* hanged in the Nuernberg, Germany prison yard Wednesday morning; a.-> the 11th and No. 1 criminal, Hermann Goering, committed su.- ; ode a few hous.? before his sched uled march to the death trap by ! taking a dose of cyanide potas sium. The No. 1 Nazi killed him self in his cell at 10:45, it was said. The other ten men were hanged j on schedule by the Army's official | hangman, M. Sgt. John C. Wood, i of Texas, with two assistants, one; of them a German. The ten men executed were: Rib bentrop, Waltenbrunner, Streicher, Strumer, Seyss-Inquart, Frank, Jodl, Rosenberg, Keitel and Flick, , all top-ranking leaders in Hitler's military machine. Fall Color Season Is Now At Its Best In The Great Smokies Pres. Truman Abandons Price Control On Meats, Rents Stay M Sir ear# in Vitmmeree Secretary CHIEF JUSTtCK Fred M. Vinson (right) of the U.S. Supreme Court is shown in Washington swearing in W. Averell Harriman (left) as the aew Secretary of Commerce to fill the Cabinet post left vacant by the dismissal of Henry A. Wallace. Watching the ceremony Is U.S. At torney General Tom C. Clark, of Texas. (International Sounrlvhotn) President Truman turned to the radio Monday night to tell the } meat hungry American public in an angrily worded talk that he j was abandoning price controls on meat and that the entire program of decontrol will be speeded up immediately. However, he said that rent contol must stay for a long time. , Thus three weeks before the general election the President re verses his stand on meat control and alters the course he had pre viously set, removing the admin istration's hand from the meat sit uation entirely, and put it up to the industry to restock the nation's meat markets. He said that this was the only remedy for the meat shortage. Many of the lenders of the Dem ocratic party hac* urv :1 !' P ?*???} dent to take this action lor some time. Mr. Truman >nokc angrily of congre.>. men and candidate;; whom he blamed for the meat shortage and failure of controls, and made no attempt to pin^ne responsibility solely on the Republicans. The President said, "the re sponsibility rests squarely on a few men in congress who, in the service of selfish interests, have been determined for some time to wreck price controls no . matter what the cost might be to our peo ple." The ceiling on livestock and the food and feed derived from it went off Tuesday. The president an nounced that this means the de control of all other items "will have to be accelerated under ex isting legal standards." Included under the hastened de control process will be the wage controls. The President said that we all. recognize the close rela tionship between wages and prices. But he refused to abolish the wage control simultaneously w.tn the meat ceilings. He sairl, however, that this does not mean the end' of control bow. Advanced Physics Course Given Special Students On Atomic Energy Twenty-seven specially selected natural scientists comprise the class in an advanced course in nuclear physics which opened re cently in the Manhattan Project's Clinton Laboratories at Oak Ridge, T^nn^ssee. The trainees, selected on specific needs of the Manhattan Project for qualified men in the various fields of research and development of atomic energy represent leading industrial end academic institu tions throughout the county. Rent, he said, would have to be controlled for a long time to come. Other items consisting of certain basic materials and other commod ities of which there is a grave shortage, will have to remain un der control until production of them has been greatly inceased. As for the present act, the Presi dent said that he signed it reluct antly, and that it fell far short of what he had hoped for, but that a wholehearted effort had been made to make the law work. "1 have made that effort," he went on to say. "I have tried honestly and sincerely to administer this feeble law. All the government agencies have made the same vigorous ef fort. He went on to say that from the very outset forces responsible for ?he weakening of the law in the :r;ress have demanded the lift- ; ing ol even the inadequate con trols. Besides, many mumutr the congress and many candidal*-: have pledged themselves to vi u for the removal of price controls i as soon as the new congress meets, j * ?? Firv injured in Truvk, Car Wreck Five persons were injured Sat urday afternoon when a truck re ported to have been driven by Douglas Stephens and a car report ed to have been driven by Elliot Norton collided at the Cullowhee bridge on highway 107. The in jured were Mr. and Mrs. Norton and two children and Douglas Stephens. They were taken to the C. J. Harris hospital, treated for j cuts, bruises and abrasions and re- , leaser! the same evening. No hearing has been held on the j vcident to date. Sylva Fire Department Called To Bryson City Tilghman Bass and eight mem bers of the Sylva Fire Department ;ipowered a f:re alarm at the Wald- ; ro? Hotel in Bryson City at 10:10' Wedne.-day morning but the fire was under control when the truck , .?earned there. File of an undetermined origin j had started in the basement. The amount of damage done was not ' .-.t .ted, but the majority done was j ciu.-ed by sm >kc and water. Sylva Men Seek Bruin In Mt. Mitchell Area Eleven Sylva members of the i "Big Tom Wilson" Hunting club 1 left this week for their camp near Mt. Mitchell where they will take part in the first bear hunt of the season. Those going were Harry Ferguson, Dr. W. P. McGuire, Everett Harris, T. N. Massie, Ray Cogdill, Cole Cannon, Phil Stovall, Frank Fricks, Ras Barrett, S. W. and Rege Enloe. Thousands Of Visitors Went To Park Sunday To See Nature's Show What is the most colorful week of Autumn in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park? This is a question that Blair Ross, park superintendent, has been asked many times, and has answered in a press memorandum released last week. Since climatic conditions play a very important part of the au years are ever alike, climatically, Mr. Ross finds it difficult to select any one week when foliage colors are at their best. All of October he recommends highly, "and al though frost, wind and rain will bring about widespread defoliation by the end of the month, the tena cious oak leaves will persist to car ry this color spectacle into the month of November." Some species ol trfes naturally color early and will lose a large quota of their leaves before others some into their prime, such as the ' yellow buckeye. And since cool weather comes to the mountains before the lowlands, this fact com plicates prophesies on wide-ranging species. "Already the Sugarlands Valley in the Park is arrayed in striking colors which sweep upward along the slopes of Mt. LeConte, and the Oconuluftee River Valley is fast approaching its height of autumn grandeur. In places such as on n*jky promonotories which are drier and more exposed the vivid red and yellow hues appear to be intensified. "The forest of yellow birch which forms a wide band just below the lower limits ol the spruce forest is alr?rcijMft Ytne color and should be at its best this week-end; here and there its prevailing golden color is interrupted by the indescribable hues which only, the red maple can assume! The red maple is likewise found throughout the lower-alti tude forests where, along with sourwood, black gum, flowering dogwood, sumacs, Virginia creeper, sassafras, hickories, tulip, sweet gum, ash, black birch, witch hazel, wild grape and other plants the pageant of autumn foliage reaches its richest development." Thou: anris ol motorists visited the Smokies on I;. s I Sunday to t.ike advantage ol a perfectly mild, clear day for viewing the color show now at its best. FINAL RITES HELD FOE MRS. CANSAS SHULER WEDNESDAY AT 2 P. M. Funeral services were conducted! Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Ochre Hill Baptist church, for Mrs. Cansas Shuler, 85, who died October 15 at her home in the Washington Church community near Pelzer, S. C. The Rev. Rob ert Parris officiated and burial fol lowed in the Norman cemetery. Mrs. Shuler, who observed her 85th birthday on October 5, was a native of the C'ar.e Creek section of Jackson county. She was the widow of the late T. J. Shuler, who preceded her i?i death in 1941. Mrs. Shuler moved to South Caro lina four years ago and has been an invalid for the past three years. She is survived by two sons, H. C. Shuler of Pelzer, S. C., T. J. Shuler of Big Pines, Fla.; three daughters, Mrs. ,1. D. McCall of Marietta, Ga., Mrs. Julia Herrod of Pelzer and Miss Mayett Shuler, also of Pelzer; one brother, C. S. Buchanan of Oklahoma; one sis ter, Mrs. Emma McCall of Brevard; 22 grandchildren and 24 great grandchildren. June Middleton Is Hurt In Auto* Mishap June Middleton, 12 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Middleton of Sylva was struck by a car reported to have been driven by John Hooper of Speedwell, when she stepped from a Trailways bus on Highway 107 near Ensley's grocery. The accident was termed unavoidable. The girl suffered a broken right arm and leg in the mishap and was taken to the C. J. Harris Hos pital for treatment.