READ!! ROGER BABSON'S News Dispatches in this is of the Franklin Times. sue (V VOLUMN i.ohsbikg, n. Carolina CO-OPPERATE .If Louii>burg'.i Bu.slne-? lotermtM would < o-opeinte witli the Frank lin Time* we would httve u much Biffxer and Better To?ra. XIMBEK 15 BISHOP PURCELL TO SPEAK I At Louisburg College Com mencement BEGINNING FRIDAY EVENING Dr. Walter Patten to De-: liver Baccalaureate Ser mon; Dr. D. E. Earnhardt I To Lead Worship at Ves per Service Y. W. and Y. M. C. A.; Other Features Promise Much Entertain ment And Enjoyment; Graduating Class One of Largest; Splendid Year Louisburg College will begin its | 194 1 Commencement exercises! Friday evening. May 23. when the! voice and piano classes. under ! the direction ot Professors I. D. Moon and James K. Byeriy, give their annual music recital at 8:00 P. M., in the college auditorium. '< The alumni banquet at 7:0-0i o'clock Saturday. May 24v in the! college dining room will feature! Hie return of a host of former Louisburg teachers and adminta-j trative officers, among them be ing Miss Sally Rett*, of Sunford, N ('.. for many years Dean of Women, and Miss Alma HizzelKV in (ioldsbort), former Registrar and head of the mathematic de partment. Dr. Sadie Johnson, alumni president of Louisburg College, will preside at this af ? luii- which liovnral Itundnwi* -of former students are expected to attend. '"lass Day exercises will begin at 8:15 P. M.. immediately fol lowing the 'Alirfnui dinner, and will be int rod need by a Proces sional by the Senior ('lass, and will feature an address by the - diss president lialpli Rue. Sul foK, Virginia and other members oi the senior class. Marshalls u.i iliu HxarcisMs .are ?el>>m>id on the basis of scholarship and in clifne; Sarair Davis. Chief Mpr sball, Louisburg: Helen Hall. Koxboro ; Kvelyn Lowe, of Kav ettevllle: Virginia Spivey. Louis 1uiTg: and Gene Thompson . ? of F raiiklinton. The Baccalaureate sermon will fea delivered at l.:00 A. M. 8un duy morning at the Methodist Chifrch by the president of the College. Dr. Waller Patten, fol lowing which at 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon l?r. and Mrs. Patten will entertain in honor of the! graduating class and their par-i ents. At 7:15 P. M. the Y. W. and Y.j Jt. C.'A. groups will hold a Ves per service on the North West campus with former Louisburg President. Dr. D. E. Earnhardt, leading the worship. Bishop Clare Purcel of the Methodist Church will deliver the Baccalaureate Address at' the graduation exercises at 10:00 A. M? Monday morning. May 26. at which time the presentation of Diplomas. Certificates. Awards and Honors will bring to a close the academic year. The graduating class this year is one of the largest In some time and the session just closing is con sidered a very splendid year, re flecting much credit upon Dr. Pat ten, President, and his splendid faculty. ? MRM. KANNIK HAYKS ? Mrs. Fannie Hayes. 65. died early Tuesday morning at the bome of her son. G. K. Hayes, on Louisburg, Route 4. She leaves two sons. G. K. and J. F. Hayes, both of Louisburg, Route 4. The funeral service was con- ! ducted at the G. K. Hayes home Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, and burial followed in the ceme tery of the Duke Memorial Church in Franklin County. PROGRAM AT THE LOUISBURG THEATRE The following to-th* -program at the Louisburg Theatre, begin ning Saturday. May 24: Saturday ? Double Feature ? Roy Rogers and "Gabby" Hayes in "Old Cheyenne," and Dennis O'Keefe and Florence Rice in "Mr. District Attorney" also Ccap ter No. 3 "Adventures of Captain Marvel." Sunday Only ? Lew Ayres, Lio nel Barrymore and Laraine Day In "The People rs. Dr. Kildare."! Monday-Tuesday ? John Beal, and Albert Dewwer in "The Great) Commandment." Wednesday ? Chester Morrisj and Rochelle Hudson in "Meet Boston Blackie." Thursday-Friday ? Tyrone Po rn er, Linda Darnell and Rita Hay worth in "Blood and Sand." TO DELIVER BACCA | LAUREATE SERMON I?|{. WAI.TKK I'ATTKN STORES TO CLOSE Tlit* ritWkl.lN TPM.KS is ? requested to stiilf thai all slows and business establish ni4*iil s in Hill Ih* . Host 'i I I'vrry U wlm'xday afljT noon, Ix'^iniiin^ June -It It. al 12:00 o'clock, for a half tioll ?ia> , during I ho nionllis of Junr, July ami August, I Mil. The. drug store's an afternoon*. Not Decided JudiP* i'arr To Hand Uuwn Decision Sat unlay ? - ? i" ? 1 The hearing on the restraining! order against ihe Town of l.oula burg's purchasing engines (or the power plant was heard before Judge Leo Car.r at Graham on! last Saturday. Representatives! of both sides were on hand and a| full discussion was had. * Judge Carr announced Miat lie. would take the question under1 advisement and render his decis ion on Saturday, May 24th. at Greenville. Iteports indicated tliul Judge Carr inUmated that tile question of whet-her an emergency actual- j ly existed would be a question for a jury to deride. If the derision ? Saturday takes this angle andj rules In keeping with this view it| will he quite a while before the! town can buy as our next Civil | Court is in September. ? DRY FORCES TO MEET There will be a meeting of thc| United Dry Forces of Franklin I County in the Court House in Louisburg on FrfMay night. May 23rd, at 8 o'clock. All who are interested in calling an election on the liquor question are urged to be present. S. H AVERITT. Chairman. o THANKSGIVING Washington. May 'JO. ? The 48 states aKain will celebrate Thanksgiving on the traditional last Thursday in November be cause, In the word* of President | Roosevelt, advancing the date failed to nceomplish its purpose. 1 The change will not occur un- ' til next year, however, so eal- . endars, football schedules and sali-s campaigns will not be thrown out of kilter. For 1941, as he has done for the last two year*, Mr. Roosevelt will pro claim the next to the lust Thurs day In November to be Thanks giving Day. That will be No vember W. When he announced in Au irust. I BHD, that he was advanc ing the date, the President said retailers wanted the change be cause they figured business would be better If there were a longer Interval between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Hesldes, he said. Thanksgiving had not always been celebrated on the final Thursday in No vember. ? ? A check was made on the economic aspects of the situa tion, and Mr. Roosevelt told his press conference today that the Commerce Department had found that a majority of retail stores agreed that thf Shift had made little difference in their sales. TO LEAD WORSHIP AT | ^VESPER SERVICE ( ? ? DR. I>. K. i; \IS\H \i:i>t Recommended M?\ A. W. IVrMHi lias been mi) mil ien(|ed by the joint ae Hon of \\. V. .Vvont, Clerk of t la* Su|>erior Court. I *1 1 i I I!. InMW, Chairman of tlx* County lloareil liy thi resinuiiLion. of Mr. J. K. Ma lone. Mr. Person'* selection is a uLse one. HeLs one oiJ'ruuk lin County's most substantial ami well posted business men Mid I* ffTJ popular MIMOWg out' eitlzensliip. BINGO TOURNAMENT FOR CHARITY The Junior Woman's League is Vponsoring a Rittgo ToutHametH Friday. May 2Hrd (tonight') in the Armory auditorium at 8:00 o'rtock. The proceeds wilt jfo to ward. helping under-privileged childre.n. There will b? no iwi mission at the door Kach^ Ringo game will cost tire cents ami a prize will be awarded the wlniixr at the end of each same. Come to the Armory Krlday night and play Ringo and help a worthy cause. Your patronage will lie appreciated MRS. T K. STOCK ARI), Pres. Junior Woman's I.eague. LOU 1SBUKO BAPTIST CHURCH Next Sunday morning. Or. A. Paul Ragby will preach at- the us ual hour- -using for his topic. "The Rooks and the Rook." Sunday School at 9:45. R. T. U. at 6:45. At the evening service the Chaplain of the Prison will he the speaker, he will talk about the work of the prison. REVIVAL AT PINKY GROVE There will be evangelistic ser vices at Piney Grove Church dur ing the week of May 25-June 1, each evening at 8:00 P. M. Rev. Mr. Odell Brown, of Waynesvllle, N. C., will do the preaching. He has exceptional evangelistic tal ent. Everyone is cordially invit ed to attend these services. FRANKLIN COUNTY L I B E A & Y Among the new books received at the County Library, It is an nounced. are: "Random Harvest." James Hilton; "War Nurse" ? - "Country Lawyer." by Partridge; "Supphlra and the Slave Girl" by Cather; "The Jasmine Farm-'' by Elizabeth; "The Vanishing Vir ginian" by Williams. Several Faith Baldwin. Mar garet Pedler. and De la Roche books are among the collection. i ? 11 ? MRS. W. H. ALLEN, JR. HOSTESS Mis. W. H. Allen. Jr.. delight fully entertained the members of the Monday evening Bridge Club and additional guests at the home of Mrs. O. W. Cobb, Monday even ing. The hostess, assisted by Mrs. W. A. Huggins. served a salad course and Iced tea to the follow ing gueStV. Mesdames F. H. Al len. Jr. K. K. Allen, Chas. E. Ford. E. S. Ford, Jr., John Wil liamson, Edward Stovall, W. A. Huggins, W. V. Tyler, and Miss Aileen Crowder. High scorers for the evening were Mrs. W. A. Huggins for vis itors, and Mrs. John Williamson for club members. Both received vases of early American fostorla. EUROPEAN WAR NEWS Vichy. France. May 21. ? Ge:-j man military equipment already is crossing Turkey en route to Syria and Iraq by rail dm- to Nazi squeeze play, diplomat ic courses here reported tonight ? Reports from Istanbul said pa*? , senger traffic to Iraq had been stopped, but did not- mention freight' traffic. ! )iplomat to eifdft' h m ? spid t lb situation was this: SmaU.German military units in Iraq qqickly established themsel ves along the railroad to Turkey and threatened t <4 ?u t this, line north of Bagdad unless t'he l urk agreed to let Gentian material move through Turkey to Iran. Since this route to. t lie I'ersijjn (?it If is a principal source of im ports for Turkey now that the East Mediterranean i> 1 war zone, the Turks had t?o comply. (The British haw been report ed in control of Basrfi. Iraq's I'or sian Guifport. auti presumaniy could use the same means to keep the Turks from bowinu to German demands, but this dispatch made no mention of the possibility, t This asserted railio.nl deal was cited in Vichy as prool (?hat Tur key was doing everything possi ble to remain at peace. Merlin. May 21 Hopes of speedy release for at least part of the 140 Americans from the Kgyp tian steamer Zamzain. sunk by a German raider while en mute from New York to Alexnndrtir. were obscured tonight by tangied questions of international law. The Germans hav. *tatev?>ii I iiiili'-i ? V m-it.'Im the British Merlin. May 21. ? A blasting dive-bombing att.ok on lithium's M?-diterrein?ntn fl-ft- and I tie seiz - ; u reyf key imsili.'iis on tin- |s la ml_ of <:rete by i man air-bortti troops today op way for a possible Axis offensive against Key |it and the Stic/. Canal. Nazi, suuarters clilmiil. , .Squadrons of N'n 7.i "Htukus." it waiflnnou need hv radio, today bom beH and damaged seven anil perhaps^^ight liritislt warships. Including aNwtMeshlp. In a strong o'tec!; JttvJ \vNtt of invaded Crete. Nazi spoke < tifxti Raid 'the wer ships " piesu tilti blyxwere ttianeif vering in an effort tirnffect a pos sible inintinenl British Evacuation of Crete lo Egypt." Five British rrii liters werKset on Ore with direct hotitb hits ahd a battleship sutTered a direet it i t while another bomb exploded so I close to its stern that "the inighty ship was forced sideways. said the ofTicial KXIt agency. "It' must be assumed that the battleship's mainuverability was badly impaired " London, Thursday, May 22.- ? Thousands of German sky troops plummeting down in force on the Oreek Island of Crete by para chute and glider plane were re ported early today to have tailed to gain any key points in their audacious battle with RriMsh im OPEN BIDS . Only One Bid Received ? Other Companies Not In-I terested ? ; I sinners met in .Special Session ] Friday afternoon at o'clock to open sealed btds on the addition^ and repairs to the local light and power pin nt Only out1 hid was received and t hat was front Fairbanks. Mot^c & Co.. and was the same as the l>roposit-Lqn formerly made. l,et-> t e i s Troin, Dillon Supply Co.. Gen eral Motors Sales Corporation, American Locomotive Co. . Worth-.' ingtou Pump & Machinery Cor poration and the Nordberg Man-, ufacturiug Co: These letters stated that they were not ins-crested, some because of a trade-in fea ture. Home because they did not make the smaller deisels and some because they had all the orders they could handle. ? The bids wore held until after the hearing on flu- restraining order was settled perial and Cireek defenders. Nazi shock troops alio tried Co stMnSTIto** isftt-n^wi rocky shores' from speedboat troop carriers, but wepe repulsed, authoritative Brit ish sources said. Cairo dispatches said 1.000 N*a-| /is were killed or captured in ('he tirst day's lighting Tuesday 4. Many of -the German .gliders were- reported fO have cracked up in landing. It was oni' of the most fantastic battles in history, mark ing as it did the first use of glider borne t-voops. and the use of blitz tc.clics in an ancient laud of for bidden terrain where guerrilla bands have battled down through the centuries; Informed sources in Loud jiU-SiiM . I here was every indication that the attack, iu its Miird day. was increasingly violent, with the nos sibility that 7.000 parachutists now were in the battle. Intensified efforts of sea-hqrne forces' to gain a toehold on the embattled island have tailed thus lax^ Llie informed sources saiiL - There w as no- coot* r m a t 4nse~ of the ^official German' news agen cy DNT.'S report that the Luft waffe bad bombed five cruisers, a hat t lesh i p a nd a destroyer in t he ICastern Mediterranean, tl ring foitr ships and causing Mie cruiser to list. _ KKIiIiik l-!\|?ew Jr., was runner-nii with a 77. hose making points for Louis burg were: Huildy Beam. |: Wil liam Burrow. Jr.. 2 U ? Joe Bar Mucins. :i ; Jonah Tay '?^ '? ( oy Cox. i/L, ; Word ? Arch Wilson. 1; Periled. 3; Ash i 'VV. J"4;. Thol""s. - '* : Gilliam. < heat ham, .1. The Green Mill Country Club has won a total of seven tourna ments as against two defeats SmH*?X!Ht0.,l,'Ua",ent Wi" ,vit'? S h " h "'0r,"W a"ernoon at Smithfield. On next Wednesday ?liter noon . a tournament will he played with Warrenton on the warr?Miton course. GHKKN HIM, LOWKK TO OXFORD CLCB rivfH H tournamen' played on the Oxfoid course, the Louisburg gol fers lost by the close score of -?i 6 to 18^, on Wednesday af wnDn?n "J t,h'S week Although William Barrow. Jr.. Napier Wil liamson. Dr. Whelesg, Arch Wil son. Coy Cox and several of the other good golfers of Louisburg J*"* """hie to play in this match the Louisburg hoys made a splen did showing, six Louisburg play ers made scores In the 70's Snooks Collier, who Is playing some of the best and most con slstent golf of any ameteur in tMh section, tied wlt-h Joe Barrow/for the low score of 73. Bill Aug. gins, who seems to have the bhack of winning all of his matches played on foreign courses, was runner-up with a score of 75 Others making scores in the 'Ob were: Dr. Bagby. 7ti; Ed Owens. 7b: and Buddy Beam. 76 Those making points for Louis ?noLW,P.rm B,,ddv 2; 3no?oks Collier, 2%. Bill Muggins, 3, Joe Barrow, 1; Dr. Baebv mm W0rtd* 1H; John T^ker, 1; Gilliam. 1; Cheatham. 2' Per tell, 3. WISIll!R(; CIRCUIT I..!?* f?"ow'ng schedule for lunday. May 25. has been an lounced by Pastor R. H. Nichol IhhChircf: SUDd8y Sch001 I h Boh0 Church. W?r8h,p' >if:0n Washington following: t ft b collaboration be tween United France and G$r inany. tin- War will be shorter than most peo ple think. Al though we may, 'direct I y or indi rectly. convoy shipments to En gland yet?, with Congress in its present m o o d. tliere ? -4-s BABSON chance of the United States now declaring War. m:\v i>k\i,kk.s WKAKKMVG f'flt this, and - other reasons, there is no cause for the pessim ism which is about today in Wash ington. New York, and most of the large cities. It- is true that huge sums of money are being ta ken from the rich through terri bly high taxes This money is being given either to labor in the form of high wages or short hours, or is being distributed to the unfortunate t'hrough various; forms of relief. Billions are be ing spent on tanks and airplanes; 4mt ?are these any move wasteful than pleasure cars and crime? Crime alone, lasi year, cost thi3 country $15,000,000,000. I got a new idesr in Wash ington the other day. Here it is " ;is "pifi" i'ni i i) ?tru'-iiy iTi ft j" t>r" iiu'1" Swr Deal economists. Said lie: "(Jive lis iwo or three years longer and these economic opera tlons will not be necessary as the patients ? are constantly dyi ng off. Isn't _!t_ Just as humane to keep the eco nomically-inefficient businessmen, ; farmers, and unemployed free from- pain ami let the 111 di? iiatur ? ally as tt )s to etlm^nate thrm now through baukrupicy? Tliey have only a few more years to live Viivmv," Tills is a new though l> jtoSue; but there may be some thing tail. l.igi'tUATINC I.AUOK ? ijun'lv. iabaiyleaders have seen . their best days ft>ksome time to come. During the^^past eiglit years labor has had the sympathy ! of not only the Administration, hut also of a large part oithe public. Kven the newspapers of~ the country found it bad business to combat labor. Hence, labor leaders have been riding "high, .wide, and handsome." This situa tion lias greatly changed during I the past few days. Strikes have ? become unpopular and labor lead lers have been put on the defen sive. j President Roosevelt and Ma Perkins may not have the guts to gel after these labor leaders as [they did the bankers and the util ities; but things move very fast I these days. Who would have thought that memberships on the I New York Stock Exchange ? I which sold for $650,000 twelve years ago ? could now be bought I for only $20,000 when they carry ! $20,000 life insurance! Wage I workers will be protected in their | desire to organize and bargain I collectively: but they will not be allowed to defy the Anti-Trust j laws or hold up American Con , sumers. I WHAT ABOUT INFLATION? Congress has increased the debt limit to $65,000,000,000. Unless there is a negotiated peace within a reasonable time, this debt will approach $100,000,000,000. Whe ther we will come to the printing of the currency. I do not know. .Washington insists tihat dangerous inflation will be prevented through high taxation, price fix ing. and forcing wage workers to put a portion of their money into government bonds instead of spending it. This would keep people from bidding up prices. Things which are largely wasteful or harmful will be taxed especial ly heavily. On the other hand, it mu?tf be realized that inflation In some form will be one of the method* to be used for defraying the ex penses of a long war. Some re adjustment of the currency will be needed in order to hold our foreign trade and compete wit-h foreign nations where inflation has already gotten well under way. A mild form of inflation might be quite helpful to business and offers one way of reducing our public debt. YOUNG MSN AMERICA'S Most of the pessimism now floating about comes from the older businessmen who cannob forget the "good old days" when taxes were very low and - they could do as they pleased. The Ba llon owes these bankers, manu facturers, and merchants a tre ( Continued on Pars t)