v\ An In 4 VOL. 54, NO. 9 J DR. GRESHAM TO f DELIVER ADDRESS HERE ON FRIDAY Georgia Minister to Address Chamber of Commerce: Better Mail Service is Sought: Traffic Congestion and Housing Shortage Mentioned Dr. R. C. Gresham of Moultrie, Ga.. will discuss the relationships existing between North and South America at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to be held at T-Tiitnl Wnfaiit/n Prirfav otrrminn 7 !ifl daylight saving time. Dr. Gresham, who is pastor ol the First Baptist church in Moultrie, is spending his vacation in Boone, and since he has just returned from a South American trip, his address will be most enlightening. He is a world traveler and an outstanding speaker. Mr. Herman Wilcox, Chamber of Commerce president, states that Oici t' ure sonic very illljiui um uusiness matters to be discussed at the meeting, including the possibility of the city securing highway mail postoffice service, which operates in trucks on about the same system as railway postoffices. It is said mail officials are in favor of such a service for this locality, and some of the high postal authorities arc expected to be present, with the viewto working out an improved mail service in this locality. City traffic congestion will likely come in for a share of the discussion, and it is hoped that Chamber of Commerce and city officials may : work together to relieve the situa- i tion. : Mr. Wilcox stales that there is a 1 definite shortage of housing facilities ] here, and that people are being turn- i ed away daily by hotels and tourist homes, and many must leave town. < Steps should be taken, he says, to take care of this need. 1 (A report of the county fair will i be made at the meeting and a full ! attendance is urged. Panuch Speaks at Farm Meeting Here i Speaking on character in educa- : tion. J. Anthony Panuch, special counsel of the Security and Exchange commission, New York, on ' Tuesday addressed an assembly of i students, teachers and visiting dele- 1 gates of the county farm agents and ' farmers at Appalachian College. 1 The speaker challenged Americans "to know their own mind in the : war crisis at hand." "Although we are economically j engaged in a total war," he continu- J ed, "it does not mean that the crucial battles are on the military or naval I front." Instead, he said, "the real battles are fought in the battlefield of the spirit. What this nation needs is I stronger national character, a plan in mind and a will to execute it. "To build this character, we must build from elementary schools as dictators have done. We must mold ., . ... ... . i a spun mai win cope wiui tne i psychological warfare at hand. We i should know what we want and < have courage and determination to s get it." < Mr. Panuch, who recently established a summer residence at Blow- j ing Rock, appeared on the program < tat the request of Dr. B. B. Dough- : erty, Appalachian College president. 1 < Rev. M. A. Adams Suffers Heart Attack 1 Rev. M. A. Adams of Statesville, well-known Baptist minister, suffered a heart attack last Saturday morning as he talked to Mr. W. D. < Farthing, cashier of the Northwest- 1 ern Bank. After treatment by Dr. i H. B. Perry, the venerable minister, < who was in the county to attend the < Baptist Association, was taken to the r. home of Rev. Roy Dotson, and when t he had sufficiently rallied was re- 1 turned to Statesvile. c Late information from Mr. Adams : is to the effect that he has practical- 1 ly recovered from the attack. ] NEW AXIS MOVE IS FORECAST 5 Rome, Aug. 26?Virginio Gayda, s Fascist editor, forecast a new move s by the German and Italian armies < (today, but did not say where it would be. ! Some axis observers privately scouted the likelihood of an attempt to reach the British army in Iran but foreign observers were not so < sure. < Gayda said the "solidarity be- < tween the two peoples and the two < armies is destined to have new, out- 1 standing expressions and new de- 5 velopments." < IATA\ dependent Weekly N BOONE, WA Nazi Prisoners German prisoners of v/ar, cap- J lured hv ?V?r? TJI.P?.? ,;?L* ? j ?iuo.)iai is, am: nyniing cigareiies thai have been given them, according to the Moscow and London censor approved caption. MANY EXPECTED TO VISIT MOUNTAINS FOR LABOR DAY Week-end May Draw One of Largest Crowds of Season to Resort Areas; Most Business Houses to Remain Open; Asks Display of Flags Monday is Labor Day, and in ob- I servance of the holiday the weekend is expected to draw perhaps the season's largest throng of visitors to the Boone and Blowing Rock area. Hotels, inns and private homes are expected to be taxed to their capacity in taking care of the holiday :rowds. Business houses in the town of Boone will for the most part remain jpen during the day Monday. Rus. n r~v * t _ -i ' mu u. nuuges, president 01 ine Boone Merchants Association, states lhat Labor Day is not included in the holidays observed by the organization, and the member mercTi" ants will remain open. The Norlhivestern Bank will, however, ob ervt' the holiday and be closed. Asks Display of Flags Mrs. B. \V. Staliings, who recently interested most all the business places of the town in securing flags, properly suggests that these flags be displayed on Labor Day, as symbol thai we are united to labor for defense of our country and to preserve the democratic way ot life. KERR SPEAKS AT ! COLLEGE FINALS] Legislative Leader to Deliver i Comencement Address at Appalachian Hon. John H. Kerr, Jr., of Warren ton, N. C., will deliver the annual address at commencement exercises at the close of the summer :chool at Appalachian College Thursday evening at 7:30. Mr. Kerr was chairman of the apiropriations committee in the general assembly of the state at its last session, and is one of the state's eading figures and most forceful speakers. The general public is incited to hear the address. Union Church Service To Be Held on Sunday The fifth Sunday union services if all the Boone churches will be leld next Sunday night, August 31, n the Advent Christian church, acrording to Rev. J. C. Canipe, president of the Ministerial Association. The sermon will be preached by :he minister of the Episcopal churc^, Sev. John Sutcliffe. The ladies' juartet of Boone will bring some ;pecial songs, and there will be nam>ers by the choir. The Ministerial Association of 3oone has arranged for these union :ervices every fifth Sunday night it the different churches. The next ;ervice will be held at the Baptist :hurch. SENATE GROUP ORDERS PROBE OF GAS SHORTAGE Washington, Aug. 26.?The senate ommorce committee today ordered i sweeping investigation of the east .oast petroleum shortage as Presilent Roosevelt predicted the situa:ion would ease materially by next iprine?barrinv a strono TsTa^i rive in the North Atlantic. UGA ewspaper -Established TAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAR< M&TOfiOTO" FORT BR AGG 16TH, SAYS LOCAL BOARD Genera! Metis Gives Instructions to Rrgistrants; All Clas-i situation Matters Must Be Handled Through Local Board. Says State Director Eleven Watauga county men, registered for military service under the j selective service act, will bo induct- 1 ed into the army at Fort Bragg on September if-, but the local board has not yet chosen the men who will make up the quota. Any matter pertaining to the classification of a selective service registrant must be taken up directly with the local board with which he is registered, General J. Van B. Mctts, state director of selective service, advised registrants, their dependents and employers today. Communications on this subject addressed to state or national selective service headquarters are always referred to the proper local board. in- saiu, oecause only local boards I can act upon the cases of individual! registrants until they have been! classified, and appeal from a clas-j' sification must be made through the! 1 local board of the registrant. He | J said: " Any person entitled to appeal the classification of a registrant?the registrant himself, any person who claims to Ik- a dependent of the registrant, or any person who has filed written evidence of the occupational necessity of the registrant?may do so w ithin ten days after the registrant's notice of classification was mailed, unless the local board has extended that time. The appeal may ; be made ir. either of two ways: "1. By filing with the local board a written notice of appeal. Such notice need not be in any set form, but it must state the name of the registrant and the name and identity of the appellant to show he has! the right to appeal. "2. By signing the 'Appeal to j Board of Appeal on the registrant's | questionnaire (USS Form 40)". Director Metis emphasized the provision ?f .^elective syivjco. re filiations trial the" person who makes an j * appeal may attach to his notice of appeal, or to the registrant's ques- : tionnaae, a statement specifying; wherein he believes the ioeal board | has been in error; that he may point' out any information in the regis-1 trant's file which he believes has: been passed over without proper j consideration, and restate in fuil any ; data which the local board has fail- ; _ ed or refused to include in the reg- . j istrant's file. "While both state and national headquarters have sympathetic regard for every registrant, these headquarters obviously cannot consider the case of each individual . registrant," the director pointed out. "This is the responsibility of the local board. Its members have that intimate knowledge of the registrant. or his personal situation, and ci the j national defense needs of this com i munity, that must be given primary jl1 consideration in any democratic sys- |11 tem. The local board must have j? classified a registrant for selection I * or deferment before either state or f national headquarters can act upon F his case." 1 Mrs. W. R. Lovill, secretary of the c local board, announced that 11 Wataugans would be inducted into the 1 service on September 16, for mili- 0 tary training at Fort Bragg. t n Associational Meet F.iwl. Tkl'e Aft- 1 u?uo ? 1110 V^K IIVJVI11 " 11 The annual session of the Three ? Forks Baptist Association which 1 convened at the Pleasant Grove 1 church at Silverstone Tuesday * morning comes to a close this afternoon with the delivery of the in- * spirational message by Rev. J. C. ' Canipe, pastor of the Boone Baptist s church. s This marks the end of the one a hundred and first session of the as- v sociation, and the meetings have E been largely attended. The names of the new officers of the association * who are to be elected today, together with other information will | be published in the next edition of this newspaper v I Fair Catalogues * Being Distributed n a ine premium lists for the Blue Ridge Fair, which will be held in r Boone on September 9 to 13, are off g the press, and are now being dis- h tributed by Secretary Roy Ellison. a Anyone wanting one of these cata- P logues. which contain full information as to the fair, may receive same h by writing the Blue Ridge Fair As- t sociation, Boone. N. C. - DEM< in the Year Eighteen 3 LIN A, THURSDAY, AUGUST What's the Good W I?- ?-?'j ^assaaiHB^LjgMW This picture was made durin< conference. It shows Presideni Rot isier in an informal chat following S. Prince of Wales. Standing, (le Gen. Geo. Marshall. U. S. Army a chief of staff. Motorists Capture Bear In Highway Messrs Lee Teague and Bill Baker had an unusual experience as they drove along the Yonahlossee highway near the Avery County line Monday evening, and as they returned to Boone brought with them a 20 pound black bear cub as Droof of the incident. Messrs Teague and Baker were rather astonished when the headlights of their car fell upon a huge black bear crossing the highway with five cubs. The big bear and four of the cubs shuffled off into the forest, while one little fellow, pretty far behind the procession, stopped on the hard-surface roadway. Mr. Baker stepped from the car and after a lively chase, caught the cub and it was brought to ! town where many people gathered i Tuesday morning to view the baby j bear which wa<; hplii?vpH tn have been aboul four months old. District Game Protector H. Gra- i dy Farthing refused to grant a per- j mit for the retention of the cub. and game officials returned him to his Grandfather mountain habitat Tuesday afternoon. >IPE FACTORYIS BUSY ENTERPRISE tcport That Company Has Discontinued Buying Ivy Burls Is Utterly False The P. & P. Pipe Works, Boone's 'regressive manufacturing establishment. is running full blast, with both lay and night shifts to enable them o keep up with the flood of orders or their ivy and laurel smoking iipe blocks, which are being shipped o the nation's pipe manufacturers in ver-increasing volume. Mr. D. P. Lavietes, president of the ocal concern, states that a malicius rumor has been going the rounds o the effect that the company is not low buying ivy and laurel burls, dr. Lavietes states that this report s absolutely unfounded, and that hose resorting to such tactics are mfair competitors. He further tates that the local concern IS buyng burls, without limit to quanity, and urges the farmers to bring hem to his plant. The D. & P. Pipe works is estabished in Boone on a permanent oasis, is constantly widening the phere of its activities, and those upplying burls may be assured of steady market at the local plant, nith the best market prices always irevailing. -UTHER SNYDER HONORED AT BLOWING ROCK PARTY J. Luther Snyder of Charlotte, ,'ho was re-elected president of Slowing Rock's new country club, ras complimented at a party Saturiay afternoon by J. Anthony Paluch, attorney of New York city, nd pioneer builder of the club. More than 300 prominent summer esidents, club members and guests athered for the occasion, marked y an elaborate layout of flowers nd an orchestra employed for the arty. Meanwhile Cameron Morrison regjtered his name on the club's roster, o bring memberships to an even lundred. 3CRA H undred and Eight 28. J 941 e, ST 11 'ord Th'^Morning? '& if %%^^T I j ihe historic Roosevelt-Churchill jsevelt and the British prime minchurch services aboard the H. M. He pointed out that phosphate t supplies bone building phosphorus ? to humans through the plants and animals they eat_ He also cited the importance of phosphates in making munitions. Beaver stressed the value of legumes, such as lespedeza and clovers in "growing nitrogen" for other crops. A shortage of nitrates has occurred as a result of their use in national defense. He said lime and phosphate are essential to the proper development of legumes. Subject matter specialist and other leaders of State College served as leaders - of the group discussions but farmers did most of the talking and had a major part in preparing the reports and recommendations which were submitted Wednesday morn) ing. County farm agents and assistants of the western district , served as secretaries and otherwise f assisted with the group discussions. , The 13 groups and their leaders who are extension specialists in the . respective fields, unless otherwise , noted, are: Agronomy, E. C. Blair; uairying- r it. rarnnam; poultry, 5 C. F, Parrish; swine, Ellis V. Vestal; home beautification, Harry H. Harris: forestry, R. W. Graeber; beef cattle, L. I. Case; sheep, Sam L. Williams; agricultural engineering. David S. Weaver; triple A, E. Y. j Floyd; AAA executive officer, farm records. C. D. Thomas; horticulture, H. R. Niswonger, and organization of demonstration farm work, W. B. 1 Collins. ! WHEAT r Production of American spring i and winter wheat this year wili - j reach 950.953,000 bushels, the U. S. department of agriculture reports.