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CRASH KILLS ONE; j
TWO MAY DIE 5
OTHERS INJURED
Nephews of Eld Moore
Hurt In Wreck Due
To Too Much Speed
One .s dead, two others are fight
Ing !or life with fractured skulls,
aj-.cl five more were injured Mor>
cay evening when their automobile
we; wrecked on a steep curve on
Highway 64 about two miles east cf
P.ne log bridge, in Clay County.
h?x Moore, of Hayesville and Max
Patterson, of Philadelphia both se
r.o^y injured in the crash, are nep
l.( *5 of Mr. E. C. Moore, widely
kr.cwn Murphy business man. Pat
terson had come to Hayesville to visit
) 1 yrc.ndfather, and brought Car)
6:anl and Walter Kopec, two Phila
delphia friends with him.
Monday afternoon the four youths
tr.ri Jour girls went out for a drive.
The firls We the Misses Mary Enloe,
Op.":. McClure, Alice Huffman and
Jr.ez Parker, all of the Hayesville
jtction. The fatal crash followed.
Tne skull of Carl Stahl was crush ?
.r. the wreck. Unconscious and
bleeding from gashes in his face and
tody, he was rushed to Petr-.e h0?
j.:ai. but died on the way. Walter
Kc pec suffered a fracture of the
tkull at the base of the brain, and
i* now in Petrie hospital. His condi
t.cr. is reported to be grave.
Miss Mary Enloe also suffered a
l.aclure of the skull and may not
turvive.
The Misses Opal McClure, Alice
Hul!man and Inez Parker received
tevere cuts, bruises and possible in
ternal injuries.
Max Patterson received severe
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Onlv 85 Register
On New Draft List;
Warning Sounded
Only 85 persons in all Cherokee
County registered for the draft on
Tuesday. July 1st, when the law re
qu.red that all those who have reach
ed tne age of 21 since the first drarft
-'?fm ap for possible service.
Members of the County Draft
Board believe that this number is
too small. If necesssry the birth re
cords will be investigated, and if
any are found who should have re
Sistered. and failed to do so, they
*ill be treated as "slackers." and
prosecuted criminally.
Failure to register means an al
most certain term in the peniten
tiary. The law specifies that the
Punishment shall be Jail, or fine, or
both.
Secretary of the Board Wayne
w?lker stated that the complete re
cord must be sent to Washington not
later than July 9.
"If any man who has passed his
21st birrthday since the first draft
kit failed to register on July 1st.
comes in with a sound excuse, the
Board will overlook his tardiness."
Walker said, "However, it will not
?>* enough for such a young msm to
he wars 'too busy-. The Federal
?Pjemment regards registering as
.j?, most important business there
^"istrations are to be made in
the Drait Board offices in the Mau
^'Ming, in Murphy.
LEX FREEDOM RING!
The coming Fourth of July may
well be most important since In
dependence Day came into being
back in 1776. Our Fourth of July was
born to celebrate the independence
of a new nation. This year it finds
not only our own freedom endanger
ed, but the freedom of the whole
world.
One year hence, ? Please God ?
that danger may have passed. One
year Hence the would-be world con
queer and his gray -clad Nazi legions
may have been conquered.
Whether they can or will be con
oured without our own forces going
into action, only the future can tell.
All of us pray that such may be the
case ? few of us believe it can come i
to pass.
Meanwhile more than a million
men are under arms, and .900.000
more are to be inducted into the
service within the near future. :
Against our every desire, we stand
on the brink of war. Mot a war of
offense, either, but a war of defense.
For many months the cry has been
J. W. Blackwell, Uncle
Of Fred Johnson, Dies :
Chief of Police, Fred Johnson, re
ceived word Wednesday that Ms
uncle, J. W. Blackwell had died that
morning at his home in Royston.
Ga., and that funeral services had
been set for 4 o'clock Thursday after
noon from the Blackwell residence
The deceased, 85 years old. was
well known in Cherokee, where he
formerly lived. For mere than fifteen i
years he was in the merchandising :
business in Culberson.
raised against sending: our boys over
seas. Meanwhile. Isolationists have
declared, over and over, that our
geographica? positions is a lasting
guarantee against our attack by the
Nazis. Japan, or any other foreign
power.
Today, on the eve of the Fourth of
July, these glib promises of security
are all too patently without meaning.
The Department of Justice has just
drawn in a drag-net which caught
29 German spies, some of whom have
been watched, G-Man Hoover says,
for more than a year. But. do you
think this drag net got all of then:?
You know better.
German "tourists" in the United
States are this cry hour devising ways
of destroying our airplane factories
iti the East and West.
Our small towns, where vast quan
tities of vital aircraft accessories I
and parts are now under manufac
ture. are also of special interest to
these Nazi "tourists.'*
I'nquestinablv there is one such
Nazi "tourist" in our town, or in a
neighboring community.
Cash Prizes Offered
In White Lily Contest
Housewives of Cherokee county
and surrounding area now have an
excellent opportunity to win rash
prizes through a weekly contest being
carried on currently bv the makers of
White Lily flour. The contest in
volves only the submitting of your
favorite recipc with other minor re
quirements. Read full details of i on
test in advertisement appearing
elsewhere in this paper.
Tommorrow, German bombs ma?
crash on Main Street! That our
Government believes this likely was
made plain last week when anti-air
craft units were placed in position
on airplane-factory roofs and
grounds in California and elsewhere.
Also, last week, "The Aeroplane."
spokesman lor British aircraft manu
facturers, revealed that German
"tourists" in the United States were
''exploring the possibilities of attacks
on New York City, the Brewster.
Grumman and Republic airplane fac
tories on Long Island, the Glenn
Martin Works at Baltimore the
Siorsky plants at Hartford, Conn.,
and other aircraft manufacturing
centers." These plants now are un
der night-and-dav guard ? and the
posting of these Army guards is no
"practice maneuver."
This suggests very powerfully that,
in the defense of our loved ones, our
friends and our property, all of us
whose eyes are open must unite im- /
mediately in this Flight for Freedom
We haven't a moment to lose.
Ham Scroggs Baby Girl
Dies; Buried Saturday
The infant daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ham Scroggs of Bragg town,
who died Friday afternoon at 1
o'clock. was buried Saturday. Fu
neral services were held at the Brass
town church and Interment was in
the church cemetery by Ivie Funeral
Home.
She Is survived by her parents,
two sisters. Janice and Louise and
Louise and two brothers. Sammy and
Billy.
I
16 MORE CALLED
TO DRAFT ARMY:
LEAVING JULY 22
Contingent Will Go To
Fort McPherson, Go.
Instead of Bragg
S:\teen more Cherokee County
youths have been called to the colors,
?.r.d w. 11 leave for camp Tuesday
jncrning. JuJy 22nd.
T\jt the first time since the draft
started, the Cherokee County contin
gent u-.ll b? ent to Fort McPherson
Gecri^a. All previous contingents
nave oeen sent to Fort Brag*!. N. C.
Here are the ones who will go.
prouded they pass the physical ex
amination:
_ti; F?* in Ramsey.
?' ? M; *vi . Woodrew,
' ,iU" .*n W.de C offee.
Kennc.h Rc'?.tr! C:*lvrr
\~li- 1.nv llurdin,
( Harvr* Hampton.
V/thur EUis Panther.
William McKinlry Tanm r
Robert Calvin Johnson,
James Aaron Morris.
Car! Haden Allen.
James Wiltord Allen.
Clifford William MeCIure.
Charley Albert Ror^rs.
Arnold Edward Rowland.
Clayton Winslow Stiles.
Earnest Loudermilk
Shot Below Heart
In "Gallery" Fight
Ernest Loudermilk. of the Factory
town section of Murphy is in Petrip
hospital near death from a bullet
wound below the heart and T. C.
Beavers employed at a rifle gallery
:n Murphy is in the County Jail
charged with the shooting.
The affair happened at the rifle
gallery Saturday afternoon, and
Beavers claims he shot in self de
fense.
'Loudermilk had been drinking"
Beavers sa.d and came into the
gallery and started an argument 1
asked him to leave the place and he
got mad and climbed over the count
er to attack me. I knocked him down.
"When Loudermilk got up he drew
a knife. I backed away and warned
him to keep off. or he might get
hurt. He kept coming, and I grabbed
a rifle off the counter and shot him
I had to shoot to save my own 'if r."
The 22 calibre bullet pierced
Loudermilk's chest, and he Ml. He
was taken immediately to Petrie
Hospital where it was stated, as the
Scout goes to pres.'. that the patient
was "doing as well as could be c
p?cted."
County NY A Worker
Makes Good at Raleigh
Hubert Donald Allen from Vest
who was assigned to the NY A Re
sident center at State College in
Raleigh on May 30th now has regu
lar employment with the sub-station
crew of the Carolina Power and
j Light Company.