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I ? $150 A VK.4R IN ADVANCE OUTSU I County Citiz, M615 Pounds For Natiow I Jackson county citizens made I f H a contribution of 615 pounds of / ^ aJuiiiimim during the recent na- I tion-Hidt; drive for that metal n"fo>1eo nQn I ( Ill for ^ ^ t 1 U II 1 Jk-f MIA h I Tompkins. National Defense I chains*1 of the county stated today. The metal collected at I various points in the county, f I was brought to the central con- * cfntration point in Sylva by trucks of the North Carolina Highway and Public Works . Commission, and by members of C the staff of the county agent's m office. Mr. Tompkins said. The fo highway trucks picked up the aluminum in Sylva and trans- h( ported it to Asheville, from W whence it will be shipped on 19 order of the Office of Produc- nf lion Management and the Na- ^ tional Defense Council. us in Sylva, a box was placed in front of the post office, and another concentration point was 22 at the city hall. Many citizens Drought their own aluminum ?Atttrihn f inns tn nnp of t.hpsp S.? two places. The day before the ^ drive for aluminum closed, Boy Scouts and Bartlett Cope made | a canvass of the city in the 3 town's truck. SHERIFF POSTS: $25 REWARD FOR STOLEN MOTORS i a: ci A warehouse at East LaPorte f was entered recently and a large feenerator. pump, pulley, and j. other machinery, the property of Morrison - Knudsen Company, was taken away. ol Officials of the company notified the sheriff of Jackson coun- XT Ni ty and Sheriff Holden is offering a reward of $25 for infor- ?l in mation leading to the recovery f of the missing property. ci Webster Circuit News or iBy Rev. J. C Gentry) fe A revival meeting is now being ac held in the Speedwell Methodist church. The Baptist and Meth- *n odist congregations are holdiner e> their services together. Revs. ^ Merrit Hooper and J. C. Gentry are doins the preaching. The ^ services will continue thorugh G next week. m A Vacation Bible school is be- n ing held in connection with our cr revival. Rev. Brooks Patten from se the School of Religion, Duke University is in charge. He is assis ted by Misses Ossie Bryson * and Rebecca Gentry. The Vacation Bible School will bepin at Webster Methodist er church Monday morning, Aug- in ust 18. All young people and children are invited to attend. ^ The revival services will begin 7/ Webster Thursday evening, August 21 at 8:00 o'clock. The m Public is invited to,, be present in and worship with us. n< oi Turpin Heads i\ . _ C; P- - * t iduu v^amp gi James A. Turpin nas succeed- 01 I ed D. T. Sudderth as superin- re 14 tendent of the Jackson-Swain fi I Prison Camp, near Whittier, ac- fe I cording to R.'C. Reed, district tc I prison supervisor. * I Mr. Turpin, a native of Hay- us I wood, who has been a resident, w I of Jackson county for a number la I ol years, was a strong support- w I er of Governor Broughton dur- tc I tog the last primary campaign, ai He has had a great deal of offi~ I cial experience, having beeja 1 I chief of police in Waynesville for t f'< I r^veral years, and having held tc I same position in Sylva f?r i ? I Bome time. t l\)t 3 )E THE COUNTY ==aB3=aua*o?^ J* ?? ??? V I i ens Donate Aluminum .... - , -il il Defense ir.HFniiiFFfli ;auim club! 1 next m ) The Home Demonstratior ubs of Jackson County wil eet during next week at th< llowing places: On Monday, August 8, at the >me of Mrs. J. H.' Gillis, ir ebster; on Tuesday, Augusl , a picnic at Qualla; on Wedisday, August 20, at the John'* eek school; on Thursday, Aug;t 21, with a picnic in Dillsiro at the home of Mrs. Weavei ashburn; on Friday, Augusl , on Cope Creek at the home Mrs. Ben Crisp. Miss Margaret Martin, Jackn's new home demonstration :ent will be present at each ol ese meetings, and w^l be ir ?r office at the court "house ir dva, on Saturday, August 23. [ETZ . URGES MEN innnr?r?T7TA mn ?TT7*T T1 'lr livivlu i u niili DEFENSE AGENCIES All Selective Service regisants who have been deferret om military service toda: ere urged by General J. Var . Metts, State Director of Selec ve Service, to offer their ful ssistance to State and loca vilian defense agencies. Many young men have beer anted deferment because o: ieir occupation, because the? ive dependents or becaus< tey are not physically capable ' undergoing service in th< med forces, the General said evertheless, he added, they an lalified to perform some worl i connection with civilian de nse activities and should offei teir services to existing agenes or those which are being ganized. By granting certain men derment, Congress, when il iopted the Selective Training id Service Act of 1940, gave n( dication that it intended tc :cuse these men from the oblation which rests upon everj >ung man?that of helping hii untry in times of emergency eneral Metts declared. Each an is expected to do his share mo t? nr on rkfhpr u/hpn J U X 4C W ftjf Ui CAilWAtV* J ** sawas ? isis threatens the nationa curity, he said. General Metts quoted from ? cent statement of Brig. Gen ?wis B. Hershey, Director 01 elective Service, as follows: "Many of our young men have itered the armed forces, leavg at home others who for on< ason or another have hac leir military training deferred tiose who remain owe it U lose who have been called anc ve it to their country to heli its defense when they an ieded. "They can do their part b] 'fering their services in th< iterests of civilian defense." Pointing out that the Office o: ivilian Defense is coordinating vilian defense activities of th< iate and expanding them t( >mmunities where they are no ganized as yet, the State Di;ctor said that in the very neai iture the vast majority of de"tpH registrants should be abl< ) find a civilian defense activ y where their services can b< sed. Such activities cover i ide range and should includi task for almost every younf ian who is deferred from mili iry training for one reason o nother. A total of 379 Beaufort count; irmers have signed as cus )mers of a proposed REA ligh ne, says W. L. McGahey, coun r ngent. \ achsor SYLVA, NORT J I AS WORLD EVENTS 1 11 - UNFOLD I $Ws By DAN TOMPKINS SSSSS? y CHURCHILL and Roosevelt, meeting secretly, to preclude possibility of attack by submaIrines or planes, return to Washington and London with an 8point peace program. No sane I man, no reasonable man, no tman who believes in his fellow men, or in the liberties of the peoples of the world can find r fault with those aims. "We deem L it right to make known cer^ tain common principles on the national policies of our respecti ive countries on which we pin j our hopes for a better future for the world." Then are laid J down the 8 broad declarations. The United States and Britain ' seek no aggrandizement, terri} torial or other. They desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely exs pressed wishes of the peoples concerned. They respect the [ rights of all peoples to choose ' the form of government under [ which they will live and wish ' to see restoration of soverign rights and self government to those forcibly deprived of them. 1 They will endeavor to further ' ,fthe enjoyment of the trade and . 1 raw materials of the world by 1 all states grfcat or small, victor i or vahquished. They desire to bring about the fullest collabor- 1 ation between all nations on the J economic front, to secure for all improved labor standards, economic advancement and social ( security. After the final destruc. tion of the Nazi tyranny the two ( j countries hope t0 see a peace , j which will assure to all nations j j the means of dwelling in safety . within their- own boundaries, j That such a peace should as s j_i? ?nu J j sure ireeaom oi uie seua wnnout hindrance t0 all men. That x all nations must come to abandf onment of the use of force and ^ that since no future peace can a be maintained unless aggres> sor nations are disarmed, the j disarmament of such nations is essential. That is the big news s of the week, overshadowing < JAPANESE SAUCINESS, and . threats of further aggression in r the Pacific and Indian oceans quarters of the world, that apr parently is drawing the United States nearer and nearer to the vortex of the cataclysm. Thumb[. ing her nose at the United r States and Britain, fattened up] on the surrender to her u. Indo, China by the pu^et go^ern. ment of France, Japan is apr parently preparing t0 move to3 ward Singapore through Siam, toward the Dutch East Indies, [ endangering the Phillipines, or into Siberia, bringing her within t' a few miles of the United States i territory of Alaska on this con- , 1 tinent. Backed by Germany, t drunk with a false sense of her own importance, Japan is busy I twisting the British Lion's tail, and pulling Uncle Sam's beard. ; Egged on by a nation of white . men, these yellow men are con4 sidering themselves better than I their betters, and are carrying on their campaign of aggression, j aimed at the ultimate control of j the Orient, and at a drive into j India from the one side, while 3 the Germans come in from the other. It was Japan wh0 began j this business of aggrandizement 5 by conquest and undeclared war. She got away with it. Then Italy f tried it in Ethopia, and she also r got away with it. Then Germany I tried it on Austria, and then j Czechoslavokia, and got away k with it. Finally the wrath of the _ world broke, when Germany r tried it on Poland, in collabor. ation with Russia, in the face of ? solemn promises to the contrary. . Then the British world began a to fight, but nation after nation l fell before the onslaught. Now e Russia, first partner of Germany - in Poland, has become the latest I (but by no means the last) vie- ? r tim. Japan, Italy, Germany, j Russia, were working together, j piecing up the jigsaw puzzle of P their imperialistic plot against 4 _ democratic institutions, and for < ^ the rape of democratic nations < _ and peoples. Just how Japan . (Continued on page 2) ( .-1 x. / IS , rtlv fSls&n H^SN ^ *''r ^ \ * ''H?^ * *A5r?& \ V'A .. iff J# : H CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUG ' The Mon's C KtlAr, 1 ' f i n.r r -\ ~ I * rN this picture, topical of any of the air training schools in Canada, are seen (left to right) stuient airmen from Canada, Australia ?nd New Zealand. They are enrolled ;n the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, the most gigantic ?nt2rprise of its kind in the world, it is now turning out thousands of ?iiots, gunners and observers at ibout twice the rate originally )lanned for this time. The plan now las 116 establishments of all kinds ncluding 83 schools from coast to :oast. Its estimated cost for aj - C 4?. .. idflTi 4. F. of L. Urges Price Control Chicago, 111. ? Definite action ;o checK price inflation was recommended by the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor at its summer session here. Pointing out that/'the nation il defense emergency has already boosted the cost of j living to a dangerous degree,"; food prices have risen 10 percent in Lhe past year, with rents increased and wholesale prices soaring upward from 13 to 17 percent, the Council said a serious price, inflation Would result in general disaster.. The statement added: "The Executive Council has >iven careful consideration to ;he message sent by President Roosevelt to Congress on this subject and agrees fully with ;he conclusions which he exDressed as follows: " 'Faced now with* the prospect of inflationary price advances, legislative action can no onger prudently be postponed. Dur national safety demands hat we take steps at once to extend, clarify and strengthen he authority of the Governnent to-act in the interests of ,he general welfare.' "The President asked for legslation including authority to establish ceilings for prices and -ents, to purchase materials and nmmndities when necessary to issure price stabilization and to leal more extensively with excesses in the field of installment credit. This authority would ast only during the emergency period. "The President wisely refrainid from including wages within -he realm of this legislation. He ecognized the need for wage idjustjments from ^ime to time ;o rectify economic injustices. 3e warned, however, that abiorma| wage increases might seriously affect the nation's^ Drice structure. "The Executive Council sees 10 immediate danger of 'abiormal' wage increases. Three najor factors have made it only 'air and just that wages should De lifted. These are higher living costs, increased profits of iniustry and the remarkable growing productivity of workers, [n many industries one worker nrnriiirps What, it: t.nok J\J\AULJ V/v?v?ww? ?. ? m>w -v ;hree workers to turn out only i few years ago. Thus, the wages )f the individual worker can safely be raised without increasing the aggregate labor cost of ihe industry. "The ^ftjbfivr CqtMpcil urges vongr'./: -V give prc&ipt con- i siderj ion o the President's rec- j )mmt ndations but it cautions ; igaihst granting of too wide dis- i iretionary powers to the Federal I - I / : > ; I 1 ; I ^ I -/'- ! I J ,1 . I . ( ttto I UST 14, 1941 lubs Foregather IB &s# y ?Passed by Censor. period of three years is $$24,000,00(1 of which amount Canada wMl pro vide $531,000,000 and also 80 pel cent of the students. About 1,500 of the pupils trained or- in training with the Royal Canadian Air Force are Americans and 600 American pilots are serving as instructors for the Air Training Plan. In addition to sending men overseas, the R.C.A.F., with planes on patrol duty throughout the Dominion and far out to sea on both coasts daily, is a powerful factor in Canada-United States Defense. 'ia M???a?a FORMER EDITOR OF FRANKLIN PRESS DIES When any of the oldtimers in Western North Carolina think of newspapers, they also thijik of the name of Curtis. For iflgny years William A. Curtis lished the Franklin Presi'^and was succeeded in 1911 by hps son, William T. Curtis, who published^ the paper until 1923, wjien rhe bedame k traveling salesman Mr. Curtis died at his home on West Main street in Franklin, last Friday afternoon, at the age of 64, and funeral services were conducted at the Methodist church in Franklin on Sunday afternoon, by Rev. J. L. Stokes, and Rev. L. B. Hayes. Surviving are the widow, twc sons, Gaston of Atlanta, and J Robert, of Camp Wheeler, Maccn, Ga.; two brothers, Henry jf Sylva, and Clarence Curtis, of Brooklyn, Wash.; three sisters, Mrs. Florence Hampton, of Bryson City; Mrs. E. L. Ladd, of Gordonsville, Va., and Mrs. Judson Allen, of Cottage Grove, Ore., and a number of nieces and nephews. Bob Reynolds Will Marry For Fifth Time Senator Robert R. Reynolds, jnce fondly and facetiously called "Our Bob" by many North Carolinians, after he had conferred the title upon himself, is about to again become a benedict. Yes sir! Bob will take unto himself another wife, making the count now five in his fifty1 i f A Tliie f miA seven yeais ui inc. nuo mint, the pauper Bob, who made- a canvass of the State in a worn out flivver, buying just enough gas to take him from one town 10 the next, will marry an heiress, the twenty-year old, socially prominent in Washington, Miss Evelyn W. McLean. La Prensa, Argentina newspaper, says 270 clandestine schools are being operated in the Argentine by the Germans as one o fthe principal means of carrying out infiltration into that country. agency which will administer the price control program. Congress should specifically limit the sphere of this agency's operations s0 as to safeguard to the fullest extent the normal func tionin of the American system of fi- enterprise. Industry as a whole favors the application of some measure of Federal price control for its own protection and the stabilization of production schedules. But there is a danger that the power to regulate prices may develop into power: to reculate industry entirely. Congress, therefore, should take pains to hedge the grant of new powers within strict limits." _ ottrtta ' y-.. ONE DOLLAR A YEA] Chamber 01 Calls County Meet Here M FEEDINIi REAR DWKili' SMOKIES PARK Visitors to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are warned not to feed the bears and to keep a reasonable distance away from these bruins which are to be seen along the roadsides. Persons who are hiking along the park trails need have no fear of these animals, although hikers who spend the night in the Appalachian Trail shelters or in tents pitched in remote areas of the park are advised to keep their food supplies outside their sleeping quarters and out of reach of the everhungry bears. A number of these animals, stimulated by sweets and other such desirable food items, have become overly bold ( and will permit rather close approach along the park's highways and it is these bears that /lannarmic WlimprmiS I UCtUlUC uangi,iuu>]- 11 uiiivtwux visitors have been at fault. Some : of the accidents have come about as follows: One mpn was occupied with feeding candy to two small cubs 1 when the mother bear appeared and insisted upon having some L jf the ,?food. Shoving the big bear aside with one hand, the 1 man continued offering bits of ? the candy to the cubs when sud1 denly he was struck a fierce 1 blow in the face. The scars will ' probably remain for some time. One person placed his foot up ? on a sandwich which some unthinking lady tossed out in front 1 of a bear. The act may have been prompted by bravado; at any rate, the bite in the leg required medical attention. A bear, prompted by the food I kink n lnritr lrnr\f Afforinor fn tVlO | wnik/ii a laujr Acpu ***?, uu >uv animal, entered the car wherein this generous person was sitting. The lady's efforts to coax the 1 jear out of the car resulted in \ injuries. One man retreated to his ckr after the food which he had fed ,o a bear ran out. The bear folcowed him. The man then uliought _it might be interesting to see what the animal would do ' when a lighted cigarette was applied to the bruin's nose . . . ! ! A number of persons have jeen injured who attempted to x)se with a bear for a photograph. Numerous other incidents jould be cited. All the injuries have come about due directly or indirectly to the feeding of these animals?a practice which is un- i lawful in all National Parks. i Bears have " enormous appetites. Hands which feed them i are occasionally bitten or . scratched. The bruins almost invariably insist upon more food and their insistence creates a hazardous situation. Rangers are being stationed j along highways in the park in an attempt to prevent injuries by bears, but! there are more bears here than there are rangers. Park officials will I either have to have the cooperj ation of all visitors in the matter of not feeding the bears or j else the bears may have tQ be driven away from their haunts along park's highways. The latter exedient would be most un- , 1 fortunate since visitors naturally enjoy seeing the bears. With complete cooperation from park ( visitors we can continue to view i the bears and at the same time | eliminate bear injuries. 'j Rev. G. N. Cowan, of Rocky i Mount, will occupy the pulpit at < the Sylva Baptist church, at ! fcc.h morning and evening services, on Sunday. Mr. Cowan is ' spending some time here as the ' guest of his brother, Mr. M. D. Cowan, and other relatives. |: I R IN ADVANCE IN THE COUNTY f Commerce J Citizens To | onday Night I A call has been made by John R. Jones, manager of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce for a general meeting of the members and friends of the chamber, to be held at the community house in Sylva on Monday evening August 18, at 8:30 daylight saving time. It is hoped by the officials ?, of the chamber of commerce ~ j; that there will be a large attendance of the citizenship of the county at the meeting. Refreshments will be served, and matters of much importance to the people of the county will be discussed by various citizens. Mr. Jones slated that the work that the chamber of commerce has done thus far is showing much fruit, and that the cooperation of the citizenship of the county is solicited. "Make your plans to be at the community house in Sylva on Monday evening," Mr. Jones,said. LEGIONNAIRES 1 HFAR MHIII AN MI 1IKV4I1BI4U1 11 1 AT CHEROKEE Many members of tne American Legion from this part of North Carolina went to Chero- > *ee on Sunday to attend the pic- . , nic by the Steve Youngdeer Post and to hear State Commander Roy McMillan. Commander McMillan set forth the aims of the Legion, and asserted that the government of the United States has adopted as its foreign policy, the platform announced by the American Legion more than a decade ago. We have put our hand to the plow and there is no turning back, the Commander said. We as members of the American Legion are pledged to the support of Britain in hour of trial, by every means necessary to prevent a Hitler victory, as this way is the way of safety for our country and our democratic way of life. We are determined that Hitler shall not win and enslave the world; and the cause of freedom anywhere is the cause of the American Lecrirm T'V-io n a firm n ooH c fV?o T o gion as neevr before, and the Legion has become the strong right arm of the government in this super-crisis. The Cherokee women served barbecued lamb and barbecued pork, which the men had spent the night in preparing, along with a sumptuous picnic dinner, at the new picnic grounds on the island in Ocona Lufty river, opposite the Cherokee Indian school grounds. COPE BROTHERS TO APPEAR AT SCHOOL I Rev. J. F. Womack pastor 0f Wilkesdale Baptist church, requests The Journal to announce that the Cope Brothers will appear at the Sylva school, Wednesday night, August 20, with a complete change of program, with Whitie, the champion fiddler, and Jake and Greasy, comedians. The aDoearance of the Cooes will be sponsored by Wllkesdale church. I PHILLIPS REUNION" The Phillips family reunion will be held on Sunday at the Dan Phillips old home place at the mouth of Cane Creek, Sunday. All relatives are invited to bring baskets of dinner. Speakers of the day will be Rev. P. L. Elliott and Rev. J. E. Brown, music will be the Golden Key Quartet and the Smoky Mountains Quartet. \ ?.