VOLUMK I.XXII Subscription 91. SO a Year LOUINHUtty*, X. CAROLINA HtlDAV. JI NK 27, |?4I (Kiglit Pages) NUMBER 20 COMMITTEE NAMED AMBULANCE PLANE TO VISIT RALEIGH Franklin County To Join In Campaign to Raise Funds To Assist North Carolina In Purchase of Plane For Britain Governor Hroughton lias ap pointed the following Advisory Committee for Franklin County: A. F. Johnson, Chairman; T. K. Stockard. Chairman Reception Committe: Mrs. Hugh W. Perry, E. H. Malone. E. F. Thomas, Mrs. J. A. Cox and Mayor H. C. Kfear uey. This committee is expected to meet in* the next few days and ar range a plan fur making a whirl wind campaign of the County to secure funds to assist In the pur-| chase of an ambulance plane by| the State of North Carolina for Britain. ? As soon as t-hese plans can hearranged tirey will be made public. In the meantime the people of the County are urg ed to make their plans to give the committee full cooperation in this great work. Through the cooperation of the British-American Ambulance Corp a flying ambulance of the exact type selected for our citizens' gift to Mie people of England will viBii North Carolina for a whirlwind tour of principal cities where suit able airport facilities are avail stble. With the mercy ship will come Hon. W. V. C. Huxton. pres ? ident of tfte Corp and other of ficial of the organization, which has won high praise for its work in supplying England with ambu lance* and medical supplies. The | plane arrived in Raleigh at 7 p. lu. Thursday. June 26. where thei party was joined by Judge Bow man, George Ross Pou and other leaders of the Old North State Fund. The following itinerary of the .-tatewide tour has been announ ced: Thursday, June 3 ? 7:00 p. m. Arrived Raleigh (via Richmond). Friday, June 27 J 11:00 a. m. Leave Raleigh. ? 11:30 a m. Arrive Rocky Mqunlv ? (60 lnln. ) (30 min.) 2:00 p. ni. Arrive Morehead City. (30 mln.) 3:00 p. m.. Arrive Wilmington. (Nightly Stopover.) Saturday. June 28 10:00 a. m. Leave Wilmington. 10:30 a. ni. Arrive Fort Bragg. ( 90 min.) 1:00 p. m. Arrive Oreensboro. ' (99 min.) 3:00 p. m. Arrive "Hickory. (30 min.) 5:00 p. m. Arrive Ashevllle. (Nightly Stopover.) Sunday, June 2# 2:00 p. m. Leave Asheville. 3:00 p. hi. Arrive Charlotte. 3 hr. show.) 6:00 p. m. Leave Charlotte. 7:00 p. m. Arrive Raleigh. : o Call For More Men ? The local Selective Service Board has received calls (or 24 white men for July 8th and 15 colored men for July 17th. These men will be expected to report (or induction Into' the armed forces of the United States on tihe days named. There will be a credit for a small number of volunteers to operate against these numbers. AIR CONDITIONER The Home Furniture Co. was displaying a new type machine for the home at its store tihis week. It was a small air conditioner made up into a neat piece of fur niture: The machine was bought for and installed in the office of Dr. W. C. Perry on Main Street. o PROGRAM AT THE LOUISBURG THEATRE The following is tb? program at the Louisburg Theatre, begin ning Saturday, June 28: Saturday v. Double Feature ? Bob Steel. Robert Livingston and Rate Davis as the Three Mesqui teers in "Pals of The Pecos" and Lee Patrick and Regis Toomey in "The Nurse's 8ecret." Also chap ter No. 8 "Captain Marvel." Sunday-Monday ? Cary Grant and Irene Dunne In "Penny Sere nade." Tuesday ? Judy Canova and Bob Crosby and his Orchestra in "Sis Hopkins." Wednesday ? Frank Morgan and Ann Rutherford in "Wash ington Melodrama." Thursday-Friday ? Robert Tay lor, Mary Howard, and Brian Donlevy in "Billy The Kid." SENATOR PAT HARRISON DIES Second President Pro Tem pore of Senate To Die Within Year Washington. June 22. ? -Senator Byron (Pat) Harrison (D.. Miss.)i president pro tempore of the Sen ate and chairman of its powerful' Finance Committee, died here ear-| ly today from exhaustion follow-, ing- a major intestinal opei-atiou' performed a week ago.?*, >? Deat/h came to the 59-year-old | Democratic statesman ? affection ately termed the "Gray Fox" and "Senate Gadfly" ? at 6:35 a. m., as he rounded out 30 years of service in the national Legisla ture. His body will lie in state in the Senate tomorrow afternoon and will be sent to Guifport. Miss., on Tuesday for burial Wednes day. I.auderi by Roosevelt Messages of sympathy from President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull and other na tional leaders poured Into the Harrison home tonight>. The Pre sident paid tribute to Harrison's legislative talents and said that his death is a "great sorrow to all of us who were his' close friends." "Keen of intellect, sound in principle, shrewd in judgment, he had t-he rare gifts of kindly wit, humor and irony which delighted all," the President said. "T . . He will be sadly missed in this hour of grave emergency." - Hull, who served with Harrison in Congress and was one of his closest personal friends, said the nation mourned "the passing of one of its most useful and finest citizens." He said the late Sena tor was "a statesman of unexcell ed ability and the personification' of loyalty to principles and -to I friends." l.oii|{'1llne?H ? Harrison was the second prest-f dent pro tempore of the Senate tol die within a year. His immediate! predecessor in this high SenaU^ i post was Chairman Key Pittmaiv o%vtin Kreaks Course Reeord The second annual Sand Greens, Golf Tournament played at the1 Green Hill Country Club last! Wednesday afternoon, was won liy the strong well balanced Louis burg team, by Mie score of 451. Warrenton was second With 4 73. Other scores were: Oxford, 482; Wake Forest, 487; Carolina Country Club, Raleigh. 491. j Teams were composed of sixj players from each club. ?A1 Dowtin. Wake Forest Col- ( lege Alumni Secretary, won irfed-l alist honors with the records six ! below-par 64. This score broke the course record of 67 held by "Snooks" Collier. Runner-up was; Barker 'Williams, of Warrenton.1 who carded a 73. Prof. J. B-i Carroll, of Wake Forest, won the blind prize for t signed in 1932. - Mr. Williams was a member of the local Baptist Chu?*li for 78 years, and served as a deacon for 50. He attended Sunday School 30 consecutive years without missing a Sunday: He is survived by his widow, I'he former Miss Josephine Tuck ex.. of Louisburg. to whom he was Wed in 1916. There are no chil dren. Surviving also are two sisters. Mrs. B. F. Taylor, of Ox ford, and Mrs. W. H. Wester, Sr., of Henderson; 13 nieces. 22 ne phews. a large number of great nieces and nephews and several great-great-nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held from the home Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Burial was in Fair view cemetery. The officiating pastors were the Rev. C. L. Dow ell. of Forreatville, Dr. W. R. Cullom. of Wake Forest, tibe Rev. D. D. GrosA, of the Franklinton Baptist Church, and the Rev. S. E. Mercer of the Franklinton Methodist Church. ? j? : ? ? o THANKS 'jVe wish to extend our deep est thanks and appreciations to the firemen and oOhers who ren dered such generous and neces sary aid when our home was on fire. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Person. GATHER WASTE ALUMINUM PATRIOTIC CITIZENS URGED TO COOPER ERATE WITH BOY SCOUTS IN GATH BRING THIS MUCH NEEDED METAL ~ TEe Xouisburg Boy Scout Troup is sponsoring the collection of old Aluminum for the government RTbeused itflhe "National Defense program. Every person in Franklin County is urged to look around their home and premises and gather all the old aluminum? that has served it's usefulness and bring them to Louisburg and deposit it in the place arranged Tor it on the Court Square, or to one of the Boy Scouts who will see that it gets to its proper destination. The Boy Scouts are giving their time and work and are asking the cooperation of all patriotic citizens of the County to join them in this effort to assist the government in time of need. An appeal has been made ovearadlo from Wash ington stating that at the present rate of produc tion it will take ten years to make enough alumi num for our required defense effort. If the citizenship of the County will take a little time out, and bring the waste aluminum to Louis burg, along with other sections of the country do ing likewise, a great help to the government will be rendered. W. J. Shearin, Scoutmaster, says the Boy Scouts will call for the articles in Louisburg if those hav ing aluminum will call him. MISS ELIZABETH JAMES WEDS MR. WILLIAMSON . A ? lilies Performed In Halrm Bap ^ tij and The Methodist Youth Fellowship at | 7 : 00. The second of our Summer Un ion services will be held at the i Itnptist Church. Mr. Iledden will speak oil. "Religion Made Kasy." We welcome you to these ser vices. HOMK (.1 \UI> MMWI, I' Ml Now that the rifles art* hero ihc men <>( the l.oulsburg unit of the Home Guard are having a nice time learning the new manual of 1 arms. Quite a few of the new men who have had none of this train | ins in the past are having some 'fun In learniug. Ot'lrers who are used to the old drill are getting as much fun getting into the new manual of arms. As far as information ^s ob I lainahle the uniforms are to he ! here by the first of July or the next drill. The men are very auxious for Miese and are also trying to be in fit form for these when they arrive to show the peo ple of the community what real patriotism Louisbnrg and Frank lin County men have. The public' In Invited to attend any or every drill and observe the progress the men are making and tihe value these men will be to the community. ? o? L.OUI8BURG CIRCUIT DAY The Louisburg Circuit will have a Circuit Day program June 29th at the Hill - King Memorial Church. A large delegation is expected from the other four churches of the charge. In ad dition. the public is invited to worshp with us on that day. Services will begin at 11:00 A M. and recess at 12:30 for lunch which will be served on the grounds. Services will resume at 2:00 y. M. and adjourn at 3:0(1 P. M. \ The speaker for the morula; hour will be Dr. H. E. Spence oi \ the Department of Religious Ed . ucation from the Divinity School \ of Duk'e University. His topic will be "Conscription for Christ' Churoh, and Country-" Dr. Spenc< ' is a fine speaker. Hence anyone coming to. hear him will be well repaid. .. ? : o ? i 'A U. S. Senate resolution call - ting for Congressional lnvestiga ? tlen of the federal parity pric? - sytjtem is aimed to And a more fa jforable yardstick for farm prices Berlin, Monday. June 23.? Smashing air assaults on the Rus sian Black Sea base of Sevastopol and destruction of at least 40 So viet bombers frying counter-raids against German positions were claimed by Germany today as no table first thrusts of the great ? ?~ new war Adolf Hitler declared at ! dawn Sunday against Russia. Bolstered by vengeful Finland and Rumania, the might of t>he ! German army was loosed against the Soviet Union on a 2,000-mile I front- ranging from the tepid wat ers of the Black Sea to the wastes I of the Arctic North ? -a bat/tie 'zone which the Germans said at the outset wtffc the most exteusiro i continuous line in the history of Lwurfare. ? Russian* Losses Heavy First official news, delivered by DNB. official German news agency, dealt almost* entirely with war in the air, however. In Iras ^h a n 24 hours, DNB said. FBe TTuftwaffe smashed hard at Sevastopol, which was^occupied by German troops May 1, 1918, near the close of the World War; destroyed numerous Russian air ports, hangers and barracks all along the lines: destroyed un numbered Russian planes on the ground; and smashed columns of Red Army "tanks, ratlroads and niunit'lomi stores w.ith bombs of all calibres. I The Russians tried at least i wire lo raid (lie Germans. DNB said. The first attempt, directed I against Kast Prussia, cost them seven <>ni of nine attacking bom bers. while the second, in the general government area of form ler Poland, saw 33 of 35 Soviet bombers destroyed. ON'B claimed. The full Soviet losses are not vet determined, it added. At sea. in "Russian waters", J)MI said Ueiuiau speedboats | sank a 4.000-ton Russian freigh ter and a fishing boat'. i The first military communique ""Was issued from I lie German-Ru i inanian front in the south, stating llial these allies hud joined hattle with I he Russians from Hip moun : tains ? of ? iiwemiitH to t he shores of the Black Sea. This indicates a 250-mile battle j front in that region alone. Berlin. Thursday. June 26. ? " Swarms ol' Stuka dive-bombers | were reported today to have smashed Soviet troop and muni tion trains moving up to Hie Bal | kan front as Nazi tanks sliced eastward in their attempt* to en 1 circle great masses of Ited Army soldiers. Successes "baffling the imagina 1 (?ion" were claimed by Germany, ' and one informed quarter ex ? pfw-sed belief the Ked high com nianii already had hMD cut oil i from contact with sonle of its ar mies in the vast battle surging from the Haitic to the Black Sea. The official news agency DNB reported Mint a' German squadron attacked six long freight trains loaded with war materials and ? troops in an unnamed southeast ern itussian town. Kn ight cars were bombed off the buckled rails, and hundreds '?of Ked soldiers scrambled from the overturned cars and thfen were sprayed by German machine | gun fire. The depot- became a shambles and resulting flres spread to nearby gasoline stores, the agen cy said. i I Helsinki. Thursday. June 28. ? i Premier Johxn Rangell told par liament in extraordinary session early today that Finland had "taken defensive measures" against Russia with all the mill tii ry means at her tiispoul. After the premier had spoken, revealing the gravity of the situ ation in which the nation^ found itself because of the Russian German war. parliament gave the government a rousing and unan i inn us vote of confidence. The disclosure of the parlia 1 mentary proceedings In the long , secret session followed an official statement that up to 6 p. m. . Finnish pursuit planes had shot down 21 Russian planes and that i anti-aircraft accounted for two 1 more. Nineteen Soviet bombers were said to have attacked Turku, the 1 southern port west* of Helsinki, ' slightly wounding 12 persons, in ( eluding two women and three children, and destroying several , frame dwellings. The official I statement said windows of a hos ' pltal were smashed. I Washington, June 25. ? Presi ' dent Roosevelt decided today not J to apply t'he Neutrality Act to the Russian-German conflict. and , thereby left American ships free to carry arms or any other ma terials across the Pacific to the Soviet Union. -I Snmner Welles, Acting Secre -I tary of State, announced the Pre i sldentfs decision at a conference. (Continued oa Pace Eight*) ^