Brief Review Of State, National And World News During The Past Week
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OPPONENTS PLAN
FIGHT ON WALLACE
Washington—House Republi
cans launched a drive this week
to deprive President Roosevelt of
all authority to assign any pow
ers to Henry A. Wallace except
those of a trimmed-down com
merce department.
Republican Leader Martin, of
Massachusetts, notified the house
he would seek to amend the sen
ate’s George bill to restrict the
president’s Wartime power to re
shuffle federal agencies. This
would repeal a part of the war
powers act.
“Unless we do that,” Martin
told newspapermen later “the
president could assign Wallace
control over 25 or 30 federal agen
cies not now under the commerce
department.”
The bill offered by Senator
George (D,Ga.), and passed by
the senate splits the commerce
department away from the vast
lending agencies formerly ad
ministered by ousted Secretary
of Commerce Jesse Jones. To
give the house time to act on this
bill, the senate has deferred ac
tion on Wallace’s nomination to
be secretary of commerce.
WOULD ANNEX SOME OF
WILKES TO CALDWELL
Raleigh—A bill to annex a
portion of Wilkes county to ad
joining Caldwell, said to have
been inspired by proposed con
gressional flood control legisla
tion, hit the legislature this week
and the Wilkes delegation, cur
rently Republican, immediately
set its sights for a bitter fight.
The measure, introduced by
Democratic Rep. J. T. Pritchett,
of Caldwell, would transfer to
Caldwell a portion of three town
ships having a population of ap
proximately 2,000. Pritchett said
he introduced the measure by re
quest.
Representatives of both coun
ties told newsmen after the ses
sion that no party fight was in
volved, but Rep. T. E. Story of
Wilkes, the house minority lead
er, said ‘our county will fight the
proposal with everything we’ve
got.” Story’s running mate in
the senate, W. B. Somers, also is
Republican.
MANY WAR PRISONERS
STARVED TO DEATH
With The First Cavalry, Manila
—Brig.-Gen. William C. Chase’s
“flying wedge” of the first caval
ry swept into Manila at 6:40 p.
m., Saturday and fought its way
hand to hand into the university
and Santo Tomas concentration
m camp, withholding artillery fire
™ so that American internees
would not be harmed.
In the first report on the con
dition of those in the city, Chase
messaged his commander, Maj.
Gen. Verne D. Mudge:
“The civilians are practically
starved. The internees are prac
tically skin and bone. It would
break your heart to look at them.”
BIG COAL SHORTAGE
IN EAST CONTINUES
Washington — Interruption of
normal activities in Northeastern
states increased this week amid
serious shortages of gas and coal
and transport tie-ups caused by
prolonged cold weather.
Fortunately the weather mod
erated in the stricken area, as it
did virtually throughput the na
tion. Chicago forecasters said
| temperatures had risen by after
noon in .the east to levels well
above zero and in some cases up
to freezing.
They foresaw no bitterly cold
weather anywhere, nor any
heavy snow that would add to the
misery of the east.
Most spectacular of the- mea
sures countering the shortages
was a War Production board or
der forbidding amusement plac
es to use natural or mixed na
tural-and-artificial gas in New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West
Virginia, Kentucky, Washington,
ROUND WORLD PUPPY
Two-year-old Marillyn Di
ana Schwartz of Jersey City,
N. J., cuddles tiny brown pup
py, belated Christmas gift
from an unknown friend 13,
000 miles away in Sydney,
Australia.
ALLIED CONVOYS ON
BURMA ROAD MARCH
Chungking — The first allied
convoy over the reopened Burma
road arrived this week at the
Chinese city of Kunming, com
pleting a 970-mile journey from
Ledo, India, with supplies for the
Chinese army.
The convoy, numbering more
than 100 vehicles, crossed Bur
ma and reached the Chinese bor
der at Wanting, Jan. 28. Artil
lery pieces as well as trucks were
included in the convoy which had
wound its way through jungles
and mountains.
MANY REFUGEES ARE
NOW IN GERMANY
Paris—The preesnt Russian of
fensive has raised the number of
war refugees inside Germany to
23,000,000, more than one-third of
the reich’s pre-war population,
information available at supreme
headquarters showed.
Before the beginning of the
Red army’s “drive on Berlin,”
more than 20,000,000 Germans
were made houeless or forced in
to temporary shelters away from
home by the prolonged allied
aerial hammering of the reich’s
cities, the civil afairs section at
SHAEF estimated.
The plight of these people is
strictly a German afair, for allied
plans for military government in
Germany after her surrender
make no provision for outside aid
in rehabilitating towns, industry
or population.
SERIES OF MEETINGS
OF BEER DISTRIBUTORS
Raleigh,—A series of retailer
and distributor meetings will be
held in February and March un
der the auspices of the North Car
olina Committee of the U. S.
Brewers Foundation.
State Director Edgar H. Bain,
Goldsboro, will conduct the meet
ings as a part of the beer indus
try’s voluntary cooperation pro
gram in North Carolina.
Distributor meetings are sch
eduled for Durham, Raleigh, Gas
tonia, Hickory, Salisbury, Ashe
•ille, Wilmington, Fayetteville,
Goldsboro, Elizabeth City,
Greensboro, Winston Salem,
Charlotte, New Bern and Rocky
Mount.
COUNTY OVER QUOTA
IN MEREDITH CAMPAIGN
Thomas E. Story, of Wilkesboro,
chairman of Region Seven in the
Meredith College Campaign, in
the state, reported to the State
Executive Committee in Raleigh,
recently, that progress was being
made in all ten counties in this
region.
“Ira T. Johnston, chairman of
the Ashe county campaign, with
the help of a very generous
D. C., and parts of Maryland and
Virginia between 7 p. m. Eastern
War time and 7 p. m., this week.
D. & P. PIPE WORKS
BOONE, N. C.
SPARTA, N. C.
We will call for your Ivy and Laurel burls and pay
TOP MARKET PRICES.
D. & P. Pipe Works pipes go overseas to our
. fighting men.
Tour Co-operaion Is Needed.
D. & P. Plt*E WORKS
Phone 194, Boone
Phone 15, Sparta
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Urges
Full Support Of Red Cross
Washington — President Roose
velt this week designated March
as “Red Cross month” in a proc
lamation calling for contributions
to the organization’s 1945 appeal
for a minimum war fund of $200,
000,000.
In the proclamation made pub
lic by the White House, the Presi
dent said he was “confident in
the readiness of the people to re
spond to the utmost of their abili
ty in support of this organization
. . . dedicated to their services in
this hour of increasing need.”
The proclamation was dated
Jan. 19. It follows:
Roosevelt’s Red Cross proclam
ation as made public by the White
House yesterday follows:
Whereas, under the provisions
of its congressional charter, the
American National Red Cross, in
this fourth year of the war is
fulfilling "its obligations to com
fort our wounded, to cheer and
help our servicemen on every
fighting front, and to provide an
essential link between these men
and their families at home, there
by relieving anxiety and restor
ing hope to all those who are suf
fering and in need of aid:
Whereas this organization is
helping the people at home to
stand firmly behind our fighting
men through its collection of
blood for our wounded, its ship
ment of food parcels, medical sup
plies, and comfort items to our
prisoners of war in enemy hands,
its production of surgical dress
ings, and its recruitment of nurs
es for our army and navy; and
Whereas the American Nation
al Red Cross is also carrying on
its peacetime activities by assist
ing the civilian victims of tornado,
flood and other disaster, and by
training the people of our nation
to combat sickness and accident
and thus to prevent suffering and
death; and
Whereas, by the very nature of
its services and the principles for
which it stands the American
National Red Cross is helping to
build a world of unity, and peace
and brotherhood, recognizing no
barriers of creed or race; and
Whereas, this organization,
which represents a tangible ex
pression of the desire of the peo
ple to reach out to the nations’
fighting men, now far removed,
from them, and which is entirely
dependent on voluntary contribu
tions to carry out its purposes is
issuing to every citizen of this
country, its 1945 appeal for a min
imum war fund of $200,000,000;
Now, therefore, I, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, President of the United
States of America and president
of the American National Red
Cross, do hereby designate the
month of March,« 1945, as Red
Cross month, confident in the
readiness of the people to re
spond to the utmost of their abili
ty in support of this organization
built by their generous contribu
tions in the past and dedicated to
their services in this hour of in
creasing need.
In witness whereof, I have
hereunto set my hand and caused
the seal of the United States of
America to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington,
this nineteenth day of January
in the year of our Lord nineteen
hundred and forty five, and of
the independence of the United
States of America, the one hun
dred and sixty ninth.
The REA has announced a loan
allotment of $150,000 to the Cen
tral Electric Membership Cor
poration at Sanford in Lee coun
ty.
pledge from Mrs. B. E. Reeves
and the late Dr. Reeves, in mem
ory of their daughter, Mrs. Kath
erine Reeves Duncan, have gone
over the county’s goal,” Mr.
Story stated.
MR. MERCHANT
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SHOPPING
Stratford News
MRS. THELMA MABE
Correspondent
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Wolf, who
were married on January 27,
visited relatives here last week.
Mrs. Wolf is the former Miss Ruth
Atwood, of this place but has
made her home at King for sev
eral years where she is employ
ed at the Pilot Mountain hosiery
mills. Mr. Wolf holds a position
in Winston-Salem. The couple
will make their home at King.
Roy Ellison, who has been quite
ill for several days with a severe
attack of septic sore throat, is
slowly improving.
Mr. and Mrs. Cary Edwards
and family have moved to the
farm owned by Mrs. J. G. Joines,
and known as the L. E. Edwards
place. We are glad to welcome
them to this community.
R. M Joines, who has been in
ill health for sometime does not
seem to improve.
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Blevins,
Miss Ruth Blevins and Harlon
Harrison, of Galax, were guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Mabe, Sat
urday night.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L Irwin, who
have lived at Burlington and Fort
Bragg for sometime, spent the
week end here with relatives and
visited her mother, Mrs. S. Jane
Sanders, who has been ill. Mr.
and Mrs. Irwin expect to remain
here for the present.
Matt Estep is slowley improv
ing after a recent illness.
Franklin Hendritks, of Port
smouth, Va., is spending several
days here on. business.
Mrs. Paul Douglas left Sat
urday night to visit her sister,
Miss Imogene Richardson in Bel
Air, Md.
Philo Caudill and daughter,
Cordio Belle, visited Mrs. Estel
Caudill and Mrs. Matt Estep, Sun
day.
Mrs. Oscar Richardson and Mrs.
I. B. Richardson were visitors
Mrs. S. Jane Sanders at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Richard
son, Sunday.
Mrs. Della Caudill visited Mrs.
Robert Rector, Sunday.
T-4 and Mrs. Richard Morri
son and daughter are spending
this week with Mrs. Morrison’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Fen
der. T-4 Morrison, who is sta
tioned at Camp Campbell, Ky.,
will return to his base an Son
day, while Mrs. Morrison* and.
daughter will remain here for a
few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Eli Billings have
moved to the John Petty pT——
near Prather’s Creek church.
The farm is now owned by J_ 1|_
Watson.
J. R. McLeod is ill at his boon
here.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mate, of
Galax, Va., visited his parents^.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Mabe, Sunday.
YOUR WAR BONB
DoUahd
MONTH of VALUES
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Bedroom
Suites
4-Piece suites, with bed, chest,
vanity and vanity bench. Many
different styles and finishes. See
our selection . . . we have just the,
thing you want. Reasonable prices.
Living Room
Suites
Beautiful two-piece suites with
richly upholstered davenport and
chair. You will also find in our
store many accessories for your
living room, including odd tables,
coffee tables, mirrors and floor
lamps.
Outdoor Furniture
Lawn Sets Porch Rockers
Shop early this year for your outdoor furniture. See
our selection of lawn sets and porch rockers. Remember,
spring is on its way ... so have your furniture ready.
Big Selection Of
Odd Pieces
Chests Dressers Rugs
Baby Beds
Don’t hesitate to buy the things your home really needs —especially when
you can get them at these extremely low,prices. We invite you to visit
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A. A EDWARDS, Owner SPARTA, N. C. JACK EDWARDS, Manager
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