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ALLEGHANY STAR-KTIMES OVER HALF A CENTURY OF SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY 52nd. Year. - No. 45. Sparta, N. C. Thursday, July 3, 1941. nrr Washington, D. C.—In Wash ington official circles no sympa thy is expressed for Joseph Sta lin.. Having virtually provoked the war by signing his non-ag gression pact with Hitler in 1939, he utilized the orgy of blood and destruction that followed to pil lage Poland and annex the Baltic states and attack Finland. Eu rope might still be at peace if Stalin had concluded the long drawn out Franco-British-Russian negotiations which preceded the outbreak of the war, instead of double - crossing them with his deal with the Nazis. The first reaction of our State Department can be likened to a ■man who finds himself in a field with a mad dog, and the mad dog turns suddenly to attack a wolf that had been following him. The man hopes that the fight will be a long one and that the mad dog will break his neck. Though most experts believe that Russia will not be able to withstand Hit ler’s powerful war machine for many months, American and British aid, if given in time, will make a quick Hitler victory im possible. In any event, Hitler cannot start any important ac tion elsewhere while his Russian campaign is in progress. During that time the United States and Britain will be given the oppor tunity to increase their defense output and to develop their re spective armies and air strength. Indeed Hitler’s invasion of Rus sia may cost him his victory. An edition of the New Masses, Communist publication in the United States, dated June 24th, contains an editorial entitled “Overtime in the Rumor Mills” (probably written a few days before the Nazi invasion of Rus sia began.) In it the editors jeer heartily at the stories of German Soviet discord and' credit them to the “capitalist press.” The Communist magazine adds: “In admitting German concentrations along the Soviet-German border, the official Soviet news agency, Tass, pointed out clearly and with its usual precision that" ru mors of strained relations were being spread by the enemies of the Soviet Union. . . . The news papers can predict to their heart’s content; they cannot ex ercise the reality of Soviet unity and Soviet might with dope sto ries from London, Berlin and Washington.” Moscow subordinates in this country have never found it dif ficult to believe and repeat every word Moscow told them. They must now renounce their cooper ation with isolationists, Nazis and Fascists and their “explanation” of this about-face will be some thing to listen to. BRIEFLY: Japan is being shown unusual consideration by being left-out of the order freez ing foreign funds. This and oth er considerations will continue to be shown as long as she re mains “on good behavior” in her dealings with the Dutch East In dies. . . . Many career men among the German consular of ficials being recalled from the United States are expressing priv ately their fear of having to live in wartime Germany. Revival Services To Begin At Scottville Rev. W. H. Caldwell announces that on Monday night, July 7th, he will begin a series of revival meetings in the Scottville Bap tist church, to continue each night at 8 o’clock for a week or more. Rev. Mr. Caldwell is just closing a revival at the Laurel Springs Baptist church. Little Pine Little Pine, June 30.—Deco ration services were held at Sad dle Mountain last Sunday, with a large attendance. Mrs. James Andrews and child ren, Sam and Shirley, are visit ing home folks here. Miss Thelma Greene spent Sat urday night with Pauline Poole. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Vaughan left for Maryland last Thursday where they expect to get work. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Greene, of Galax, visited relatives here Sun day. Decoration service will be held at the old Poole cemetery this coming Sunday. The 14,000 bushel tomato crop 'produced by North Carolina grow ers in 1940 was the largest on record for the State, reports the Crop Reporting Service of the U. S. and N. C. Department of Agriculture. , Our wo rid... Daylight Air Raids On Germany London.—In a significant daylight raid on Mon day the R. A. F. bombed Kiel, seat of Germany’s sea power in the Baltic, and followed up with a destruc tive attack on a power station near Lens, France, 40 miles inland and south of Dunkerque. America and Americans were linked to the expanding aerial assault on Germany’s western front. The American Eagle squadron, manned by volunteers from the United States, has been in the vanguard of fighter sweeps over the continent, informed sources said. • • • Knox Says, “Let’s Clear the Atlantic” Boston.—Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox asserted on Monday that “the time to use our navy to clear the Atlantic of the German menace is at hand.” “Now is the time to strike,” Knox told the thirty-third annual governors’ conference in the most forceful speech by an administration leader since the war began. “At this time, while Hitler is busy crush ing Russia,” said Knox, “we are presented with an opportunity to vitally aid Britain.” • • • Paderewski, Polish Statesman, Dead New York.—The body of Ignace Jan Paderewski, j famed Polish pianist and statesman who died Sunday night of pneumonia at the age of 80, will be interred at the Arlington Memorial National Cemetery—-resting place of the United States’ military dead—until the end of the war, it was announced yesterday. Biggest Single Appropriation Ever Signed Hyde Park, N. Y.—The biggest single appropri- I ation bill ever enacted, a ten-billion-dollar measure for America’s growing army, was signed late Monday by President Roosevelt. Not even when the nation was fighting the World War had a president touched a pen to legislation carrying such a vast sum. Mr. Roosevelt also signed into H law a bill continuing the treasury’s two-billion-dollar stabilization fund and ex tending for two years his power to devalue the dollar further. • • .• Russians and Germans Fighting Fiercely Moscow.—Russian troops have repulsed a gigantic German-Finnish offensive extending the entire length of the Russian-Finnish border and have cut off ad vance German tank columns in the direction of Minsk, a Soviet war communique reported. Sunday School Field Workers Are Helping Four young ladies arrived here last Saturday to work in the Bap tist Sunday schools for two weeks, under the direction of L. L. Morgan, State Sunday school secretary, of Raleigh. Each young .lady is conducting a Daily Vacation Bible school in the morn ing and teaching a Sunday School Study Course in the eve ning. Miss Alma Carlton, of Bowling Green, Va., is at Scottville; Miss Edith Hayes, of Leicester, is at Chestnut Grove; Miss Mildred Davis, of Pendleton, is at Bel view, and Miss Mattie Stinson, of Goldston, is at New Hope. They expect to go to other churches in the association next week. Gratifying reports are coming regarding the good work these young women are doing. Next week one of the young ladies will conduct a Sunday Schol Study Course in the Sparta Baptist church each night at 7:30 o’clock. A similar course will be conducted at Liberty church. Although ranking 20th among the states in the acreage of cul tivated crop land in 1940, North Carolina was exceeded by only three states in cash income from crops, reports the State Depart ment of Agriculture. U. S. O. Fund Climbs Steadily Rev. Mr. Ervin, who is promot ing the publicity for the United Service Organization fund, says, “It is easier to give a day’s in come to the U. S. O. than to spend a year in the army.” He also brings the information that the total gathered to date is $80.15 on the $125 goal. The largest amount brought in by any canvasser so far is the $20 brought by Rev. Mr. Berry; the largest amount from any family ; is $8 from the Hamptons at Shi j loh; the largest from a group in ; a business house is $3.75 from I Castevens Motor Co., and the largest from an individual is $5 from Eugene Transou. L A nnouncement ...0 At the request of the Treasury Department we announce a new feature of interest and service to many readers who are buying or will buy Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps. This will be called the Defense Bond Quiz., and will start in next week’s issue. The questions will be chosen from among those asked by most : Bond and Stamp buyers. The I answers will tell what the new ; Defense Savings Program means | to the individual and to the j Nation. - .....- -! Coming Clean! . . . bySqvur QGSuCKS WAS ONCE A SOCIAL. EVENT... IN THE MIDDLE AGES A BATH WAS A CROSS BETWEEN A RECEPTION / A PICNIC. HOSTS ANO HOSTCSSE* CNTHttMNCD Ar bath wires-REFRESHMENTSANOALL/ eew FRANwarr ' V) OWNEOAQU6ER CONTRACTION XEO A*5LIPPER BATH* THE SHOE , A.»var«cap * w KEPT UNDER A TRAPDOOR IN THE DINING ROOM WAS ONE OF THE IrfODERM IMPROVEMENTS' CITED IN 60CEYS lACHES SOOR FOR 1054. V\ .. . ENGLISHMEN OF KING EDGARS OAY WHO BATHED A5 OFTEN AS ONCE A WEEK WERE CONSIDERED TOPS. I TQUAV ft VXR.5QN WHO OMITS fiPAUy Pftm 13 NOT CPNWEKfctMHfcU- bttUUMCUJ July 4, 1776 ---- July 4,1941 165 Years ago our forefathers dedicated their lives and their fortunes to a defense of human rights they ^believed were God-given and inalienable. This flag is the emblem of the nation which grew and prospered in the practice of those principles. Today those basic human rights are being denied in large areas of the earth. They are even being chal lenged in our own land. What is the measure of our personal and individ ual loyalty to this flag today? How far will we go in sacrificing personal advantage that the flag may con tinue to wave nobly,—the emblem of a noble people? Boys and Girls Camp on Toe River Is Open A real camp on Toe River near Marion, N. C., is open during July for girls between the ages of 8 and 18. This camp is oper ated through the cooperation be tween the National Forestry Ser vice and the WPA Recreation Project. It is supervised by trained counsellors, a dietitian and a trained nurse. Mrs. An nie Glenn McCoy, recognized as the outstanding camp director in North Carolina, is the director. The girls have the camp for July and the boys will have it for August. Youngsters are accepted only for a two-week period, and the cost is ten dollars. Let’s go! Further information may be had by addressing Paul Nafe, Camp Committee, Marion, N. C. Topia Topia, July 1.—Those visiting Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Moxley Sun day, were Mr. and Mrs. Lundy Estep and family, of Stratford, and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Green, of Glade Valley. Mrs. Myrtle Toliver spent Sun day with Mrs. Lula A. Pugh. Misses Katherine and Ruby Farrington, of Wagoner, visited Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Caudill Mon day. They also spent a short while with Mrs. D. M. Pugh. Mrs. E. 0. Carson and chil dren, Henry and Francis, and Misses Vesta Pugh and Louise Rector, of Lenoir, visited Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Pugh Sunday. They were accompanied back to Lenoir by Miss Velma Pugh. ' North Carolina ranked fourth in cowpea hay production in 1940 compared with other states, re ports the State Department of Agriculture. Biggest Spy Roundup In Our History On Monday word came from1 New York that J. Edgar Hoover j and his Federal Bureau of In-! vestigation had rounded up and arrested 29 persons — three of them women and 22 of them of j German birth —. on charges of conspiracy to engage in espion ; age activities in the United | States. This is easily the greatest j spy roundup in the nation’s his j tory. ; , Culminating a two-year investi i gation and a program of “most extensive counter espionage,” Hoover said, 18 of the group were arrested in their homes and! in taverns in the New York met ropolitan area by F. B. I. men who moved swiftly and with the j greatest secrecy. Four were taken in New Jer sey, one in Michigan, one in Wis consin and five previously had been placed in custody by Fed eral authorities on other charges. Special Service at Moxley Cemetery On July 4th At the old Moxley cemetery, one mile south of Sparta, there will be held a special memorial and preaching service on Friday, July 4th, at 2:80 o’clock. All who have relatives or friends buried there are invited. The public is also invited. Elder H. C. Moxley from Kentucky, and formerly of Alleghany county, will be present to preach, and Elder W. M. Moxley and Elder John Toliver are also expected. Traffic Deaths Increasing Alarmingly Traffic fatalities for the state of North Carolina as a whole totaled 448 persons for the five months period ending May 31st, this grim toll running nearly 49 per cent ahead of the 301 per sons killed in North Carolina the first five months of last year. Eleven counties had 10 or more fatalities. No fatalities were re corded in Alleghany and 13 other counties. “There has been a constant upward trend in traffic deaths in this state since last August, with the result that we are now running nearly BO per cent above last year in the number of per sons killed in street and high way accidents,’’ stated Ronald Hocutt, director of the Highway Safety Division. “This trend can be stopped, and careless motorists and pedes trians must make up their minds that it shall be stopped. This carnage is unnecessary. And it is preventable. Let’s stop it.” H^w? Less drinking and more thinking; less dreaming and more watching; less chance-taking and more safe arrivals. Successful Bible School At Liberty The Daily Vacation Bible School at Liberty Baptist church, Whitehead, closed with a picnic on White Top Mountain, Va., on Saturday and a commencement program on Sunday, June 29. The enrollment was 42, with an average attendance of 36. The teachers were J. K. Blum, Mrs. R. E. Richardson, Mrs. W. P. Maxwell and Mrs. L. V. Joines. Rev. G. R. Blackburn is pastor and Miss Faye Joined was principal. War Punishing Sins of Mankind Says Pope Pius In a radio speech broadcast to the world last Sunday from Vati can City, Pope Pius XII for the first time attributed the war to the hand of divine province as punishment for the sins of man kind. He did not specifically men tion the Russian-German conflict. In his broadcast the Pope ad vised Catholics to “trust in God,” who would restore “justice, tfhlm and peace” in his own due time after “having let the hurricane loose for a moment on human ity.” The Pontiff began his speech by saying that he, too, felt his heart “grow faint at the tempest of evil, of suffering and of an guish that now rages over the world.” The Pope said that to trust in God means “believing that God can permit at times here below” the “predominance of atheism and impiety, lamentable obscur ing of the sense of justice, viola tion of law, tormenting of in nocent, peaceful, undefended and helpless men.” Trusting in God, the Pope said, “means believing that God at times thus lets trials befall individuals and peoples, trials of which the malice of men is the instrument in a design of justice directed towards the punishment of sin, towards purifying persons and peoples through the expia tions of this present life and bringing them back by this way to himself; but it means believ ing at the same time that this justice always remains here be low the justice of a father in spired and dominated by love.” Methodist Bible School And Revival To Begin Sunday evening at 8 o’clock Rev. Herman F. Duncan, pastor of the Methodist church of Elkin, will preach in the Sparta Metho dist church. This service will mark the opening of a series of revival meetings to be held each night at 8 o’clock. Monday morning, July 7th, at 9 o’clock the Methodist Vacation Bible School will open with Mrs. Harry Vaughan, Miss Josephine Inskeep and Mrs. Dalton Warren in charge. The Bible school will hold for two hours each morning and will run for two weeks. Presbyterian Bible School rl Picnic Today The Presbyterian Bible School which has had a particularly suc cessful session, with a total en rollment above 80, will close with a picnic today. •' Rev. Dr. Joseph Carter, from Anderson, S. C., continues his sermons each night at 8 o’clock at the Presbyterian church. ........ Next Sunday j At The Churches f 0“........"“ED July 6, 27th Sunday Sparta Methodist church at -11 o’clock, Rev. Mr. Strader, and at 8 o’clock Rev. Herman Duncan, of Elkin, and each night at same hour. Laurel Springs Baptist church at 11 o’clock. Mt. Zion Methodist church at 11 o’clock, Rev. Mr. Ferree. Church of the Brethren, Twin Oaks, at 11 o’clock. Services at Little River Reg ular Baptist churches: Double Springs , Laurel Glen Mt. Olivet Roaring Gap. Services at Union Baptist churches: Mt. Union.. Communion at Glade Creek church. At Mt. Carmel church, Cherry Lane, annual decoration and munion service. Decoration service at the Poole cemetery, near Little ■1 ■ —- — Pleasant Grove * o’clock, Rev. Carlii
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