Dedicated To Service F vr Progress THE (Eh? (Ehrrnkpp LEADING WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. COVERING A LARC.E tvt> POTENTIALLY RICH TEUR1TORY _ 15 ? NO. 49. Ml'RFHY. N. c. THI RSDAY Jill 3. l'?l. S< (OrY-II.SI PICK YKAB 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 Continued on Back Page) 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.

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