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52nd. Year. - No. 49. July 31, 1941. As the Battle of Russia goes into; its sixth week almost completely1 conflicting claims from Berlin and! Moscow make it difficult to arrive1 at an accurate appraisal of re-; suits thus far obtained. But one' thing is clear—the complete1 capitulation of the Russian army in three weeks, predicted by Goeb bels at the start of the Russo German conflict, was just a sally into the sphere of boastful “pre dictions.” Russian defense,up to now has been far more successful than anything the Allies were able to; offer in France or the Low Coun tries in 1940. Moreover a com parison of the records lends a' plausibility to the assertion that the Russians might have found an answer to Nazi mechanized “blitzkrieg.” If, as Berlin now claims, the Russian campaign is proceeding according to schedule, it is an assertion upon which memories of last year’s blitz krieg and Goebbels "predictions” of a few weeks back cast con siderable doubt. According to Lincoln Mac Veagh, American Minister to Greece, who spent some time in Berlin before returning to this -country, the Germans are using •every trick of camouflage, in an attempt to save landmarks from the accurate aim of R. A. F. bombers. The frightened Berliners have planted fullrgrown trees on the top of buildings, painted all of the white bicycle paths and the white drives through the parks j a neutral green and even dipped deep into ingenuity to black out lakes and ponds near military objectives. All these desperate precautions, however, Mr. Mac Veagh said, have not dulled the eye of the British bombardiers whose aim, in spite of the ingeneous Nazi -camouflage, is still so accurate that spots such as The Kroll Opera House and other equally ■famous landmarks have been ob literated North Carolina Traffic Fatalities Up 50 Per Cent A report issued this week by the Highway Safety Division cov -ering the first six months of this year, showed a grim toll of 545 human lives reaped on North Carolina streets and highways the first half of this year, against 868: persons killed in the same period last year. This increase of 50 ■per cent is well above the in-i crease for the country as a whole. In the face of this steadily ris ing daughter, ten North Caro liaa counties succeeded in having clean traffic fatality records for; the six-months period; these be ing Alexander, Alleghany, Avery, Camden,' Cherokee, Dare, Hyde, Jones, Polk and Yancey. __J Nexjt Sunday At The Churches r j |i111111s111bi11m11ii111111usiisi August 3, 31st Sunday Sparta Methodist chunk at 11 o’clock. ' n Mt. Zion Methodist church at 11 o’clock. Scottville Methodist church at ' 7:80 p. m. Sparta Baptist church at 'll o’clock, and at 8 p. m. Laurel Springs Baptist church •t 11 o’clock. Mt. Carmel Baptist church at ' ll'o’clock. Glade Valley Presbyterian church at 11 o’clock. Primitive Baptist Union church at 11 o’clock, and Piney UreSk at 11 o’clock. ' ? New Haven Church of the Brethren at 11 o’clock. Little River Association ■ tist churches: Double Spring Laurel Glen Mt. Olivet' Roaring Gap Union Baptist Association! • churches: Glade Creek Mount Union Meadow Fork Baptist church Communion service on Sunday,| August 10. Our world... T' Germans Say They “Need IVJore Time” Berlin.—Adolf Hitler's official Nazi party organ said to<fay that Germany’s assaults "need time to ripen" because of fierce Russian resistance, but added that Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev were doomed. The "battle of annihilation” in the Smolensk sector, which the high command said Monday was near a success ful conclusion, appeared to be raging with unabated ferocity with the Red forces fighting stubbornly. De spite the lack of details, there was every indication that the battle was the toughest the German forc^p had engaged in 'on any front. • • • Russia Says “Germans Are Halted” Moscow.—Successive waves of Russian counter attacks, turning the tide of "the greatest battle in history,” have dislodged the Germans from their positions around Smolensk and driven them back from the vital gateway to Moscow, the Soviet high command reports. The Germans have been “halted everywhere,” the official Soviet spokesman announc ed, after losing 1,500,000 men, more than 3,000 planes and about 5,000 tanks in the 38-day-old battle of Russia. More than 9,000,000 men are locked in the titanic struggle. • • • Japanese Newspapers Very Bitter to U. S. Tokyo. — Japanese newspapers launched “the most violent attacks in history” on the United States, Britain and The Netherlands Indies for imposing eco_ nomic penalties on Japan because of Nippon’s military occupation of South Indo-China. The United States in particular was warned flatly that war was a pos sibility. One influential newspaper writer asserted that Washington’s attitude towards this country was “10 times as bad” as that of czarist Russia prior to the start of the Russo-Japanese war of 1903. • • • Japanese Snips Wary of Being Trapped Washington.—The State Department last night announced that all Japanese ships hove to off the U. S. coast, including the liner Tatuta Maru with 150 Americans aboard, may enter American ports with out fear of being detained. The 17,000-toii Tatuta Maru with a $3,000,000 silk cargo aboard, and about 40 other Japanese vessels have been standing out to sea off the. West Coast since Thursday when they were advised by Tokyo that the United States was preparing to freeze Japanese credits. The freezing order was issued Friday night. , It did not involve Japanese ships, but they nevertheless were subjected to the Treasury’s maritime regulations which meant that none of those in port or arriving in port could leave without obtaining official clearance. • • • A Hot Week-end Seiids Death Toll to 78 Washington, D. C.—A stifling blanket of hot, moist air clung to the. eastern two-thirds of the nation over the weekend as the number of- heat deaths mounted to at least 44 and deaths by drownings to 34. Shoumrs temporarily routed 100-plus tempera tures in the Plains states and in scattered areas else where, but no lasting relief was in sight. The tem peratures reached a five-year high of 104.8 degrees at Cincinnati, where the torrid wave was in its fourth day. Other unofficial highs for the day were Cleve land, 102; Indianapolis, 100; Toledo, 100; Charleston, W. Va., 100; Louisville, 100. * ,w- ' • • • -A/*; *. >•**’• Congress Hesitates at 3VZ Pillion Jax BUI Washington.—A wave of revolt in Congress yes terday balked plans for quick action on the $3,529, 000,000 tax bill, threatened to thrdw administration crop controls awry, and apparently killedjjegislation permitting the President "to take over Mctdiries in which production stoppages impede the defense pro *nun- # . V:*?> sMfifc -3&£*Z London.—Defending his war leadership in the house of commons debate on arms production, Prime Minister Churchill said the United States is moving toward war "in rising wrath and conviction” but that it would be "madness” to suppose that either the United States or Russia could win the war for Britain. “All forces have been warned to be at concert pitch by September 1 and to maintain that utmost vigilance meanwhile,” he said. “We have to reckon with a gambler’s desperation. We stand here still the cham pion. If we fail, all fail, if we fall, all fall. . . “We shall continue to pour into the common cause the utmost endeavor of our strength, and if need be, prof fer the last drop of our hearts blood.” Glade Valley Bible School Quite Successful Her. Mr. Berry reports that the Daily Vacation Bible School’ held at Glade Valley closed last Thursday with a picnic, and with e very satisfactory record of 91 enrolled and an average daily at tendance of 59. Besides the (lasses taught by Mr. Berry, Miss Clare Boh; of Bejmolda Presby terian church in Winston-8alem |nd Miss Dorothy 1/mgenecker, >f the Congo Mission in Africa rendered invaluable scgrice to the Fear Of Infantile Paralysis Allayed Somewhat Xl+J I ■SX' T'K- V. The dread and fear of an epi demic of infantile paralysis, especially in the Laurel Springs community, baa been allayed somewhat by the report of dis trict health officer, Dr. Robert R. King, that only three t^fct but decided cases of the disease ap peartto exist in Alleghany county. The three children afflicted are Kent Miller, age 4, son of |fr. and Mrs. Reese Miller; R. L B levins, age 8, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Blevins; and J. V. Jones, age 6, who live# with hia |PRllfatli>r< Wiley Comha. All ! cases are in the Laurel Springs' community. ' These children have been quar- ' antined and are under a doctor’s care, according to the health de-' partment. Children in Cranberry township are being urged to stay away from all public gatherings and to avoid crowds of people, ofr^tfUy other children. si Natl Geographic Carries Amazing Story Of N. C. North Carolin&’s amazing in dustrial upsurge in a generation forms the background for an ar ticle, “Tarheelia on Parade,” ap pearing in the August issue of the National Geographic Maga zine. The author is Leonard C. Roy," staff writer for the maga zine. The article covers 44 pages of1 the Geographic, including 45 il lustrations, of which 21 are print ed in natural color. In addition a map of the State spreads across two pages. The illustrations show scenic views, college campuses, industries, places of historic in terest, and North -Carolinians at work and at play. This article is one of a series of American State and city sto ries being published by the Na tional Geographic Magazine, of ficial publication of the Geogra phic Society. Appearance of the article in the Geographic means that it will reach more than a million homes of members of the Society. This membership, the largest of any educational and scientific body in the world, is represented in every community in the United States of 100 or more inhabitants, and in many foreign countries. Nearly 10,000 members of - the Society live in North Carolina. Mr. Roy was particularly im pressed with the industrial wealth of North Carolina, and spent many days inspecting the large factories of the State. At Greens boro, in the world’s largest mills producing denim, he watched the machinery which normally turns out lOOjnillion yards a year, and half as ipany yards each of flan nel arid cotton -print and piece dyed fabrics. He visited several of the 30 furniture factories at High Point. North Carolina now leads all oth er States in the production oi wooden household furniture" At Kannapolis he saw the milli which daily convert about 500 bales Of cotton into tiny bibs, towels, bath and- beach robes, sheets and pillow cases. He alsc inspected mills turning out 600, 000 dozen pairs of hosiery each year, and < a giant paper mill where daily oae thousand cords of pine, poplar, hemlock, chest nutt gnm add cottonwood i an made: Into thirty kinds of paper including stock for ene-cent post al eapda - This latter plant alst produces turpentine ami tannini extracts. -: < a -•«••/ Ur. Roy found that ona chem ical company at Greensborc printed 1U advertising folders it fourteen languages, and hat plants normally operating in Eng land, Ireland, Mexico, Chile, Bra 1 *11* Argentina, Spain, New Zea land, Australia and South Africa North Carolina's ' participator in the defense program appealed to Mr. Roy, who notes that the bulk of Wilmington’s seaborne trade now is gasoline from Texas; “More than one hundred silvehy tanks holding 66 million gallons spread along the Cape Pear Riv er bank in and below the city. Wilmington built ships for the World War and is playing a sim ilar role in the defense program today. On a 70-acre site nine ways have been built where 37 steel cargo dups of 7,500 tone each will be assembled by 1043. In connection with the defense work, he visited Port Bragg: "A year ago Its population wai 6,000j-’PayetteviUe’s about 20, 000,” the article states. “Last winter 24,000 workmen began —Passed by Censor. ALONG the coaitt of Canada, in the far north, in Newfoundland and elsewhere Canadian soldiers maihtain ceaseless vigiL They are on guard, not only for the defense of Canada but of the whole Northern Hemisphere. For the work thmr do and the places where they are sta tioned are part of the plan o™he Permanent Joint Board of Defense which was created following the conclusion of the Ogdensburg Agreement j in August 1940. That agreement calls for coordination of plans between ! Canada and the United States for defease of either country against pos : sible attack. The photograph shows a typical Canadian anti-aircraft gun ; crew on duty somewhere on the east coast of the Dominion. Special Latvian Program Tonight, Baptist Church Remember, that very special program of music, pictures, and talks on Latvia tonight at the Sparta Baptist church. Two na tive Latvians, Mr. Blumit and Carlos Purgailis; will bring first hand stories and information about their country that is so terribly dose to the present Rus so-German conflict. - Sam Brown »•« ...imm: -*4; Acting JVfcpjuter In Sparta : 'V\ us * Following an inspection of tho Sparta poet office last week by postal authorities, the postmaster who dms served for six years, G. Glenn- Nichols, resigned, and Sam Brown was appointed ito serve until a permanent postmaster can be chosen: f . • The investigation ia said to have been caused by delay *on the part of the former postmaster i in making reports and returns on C. 0. D. shipments. Oder Joines still continues as assistant postmaster. Last Schedule of Vaccination Clinics Immunization clinics, at which vaccinations are given against typhoid 'fever, smallpox and diph theria, will he held at the follow ing places. At each point the clinic is held for three succes sive weeks. It is important that every child between six months and six years of age bo given; two doses of diphthsria vaccine, the interval between doses to bo, from six weeks 'to two months. Children are expected munized - smallpox this fall. Typhok bs given therefore 1 those children n needing the Gov. Broughton Tell* Of N. C. Road Building Speaking before the recent an nual meeting of North Carolina autongtbile dealers in Asheville*, Governor J. Melville Broughton pointed out that 238 miles of highways have been built in this state during the first six months of 1941 at a cost of nearly $5,000,000. From the same speech came first definite an nouncement that the connecting link between Mount Mitchell and the Blue Ridge Parkway is now about to enter the construction stage. Citing a steady progress in new road building all over the state, the chief executive em phasized the fact that in the last four and one quarter jjr&hjd a total of 2,687 miles of roads have been built at a cost of more than $30,000,000, and declared with inference to the county road system: “While North Carolina's County system at the present time is probably in a better condition, and proportionately greater in miles, than any rural state in the Union, we must confess that it falls short of meeting the de mands of our people.’* Birthday Dinner Set Sunday For Mrs. Callie Pardew At her home near Glade Creek, on Sunday, July 20th, the many friends of Mrs. Callie Pardew met and set for her a delightful birthday dinner. Her brother, A. A. Ayers, made1 a nice talk, and everybody present seemed to enjoy the occasion and the din ner thoroughly. Besides the many friends who came from near her home, there were several from Cherry Lane, including Mr. and Mrs. Carl Choate and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jack WoodrufT and Maltha Fender* Mr. and Mrs. Sam MeKnigfat, Mrs. M. Hayes and children, and Mr. Ctfd Mrs. Paul' Choate. ..- ~ * ■ No Trace Qf Three Escaped Prisoners There is still no trace of the New York Times Quotes A Girl From Sparta When the New York Times s quotes on page one the remark of a Sparta girl, well, that is Alleghany news indeed. Miss Loo Landreth, of Sparta, has been S working in Washington, D. C., j for some six years, and during the last three years has been secretary' to Leon Henderson, the man whose job it is now to keep national prices under control. ,-j. Under date of July 15 the i Washington correspondent of the New York Timds sent his paper j this message, as printed on page j one of the issue of July 16: “Leon Henderson, Administra- j tor of the Office of Price Ad ministration and Civilian Supply, the man whose job it is to keep prices under control, moved hie office today' from the second floor to the penthouse of the new apartment house building at 2501 Q Street, N. W. ’ “Asked why a man who sought ! to keep prices down should get so far from the ground, Mr. Hen derson’s secretary, Miss Lou Lan dreth, replied it was “so he can get on top of them.” “There is no elevator from the fourth floor ‘ to the pent house on the fifth floor, so Mr. Henderson has to walk up and down stairs. He laughed when it was suggested that he had moved to the penthouse not to keep prices down, but to keep his J weight down.” Surprise Dinner And Welcome For Mr. and Mrs. Tedder One of the happiest occasions ft Zf&Li3£ Alleghany history was the gathering of about a hundred friends at Elder G. M. Tedder's home, east of Sparta, on Sunday, July 20th. Elder Tedder was away to Saddle Mountain church attending the communion service. Someone carefully persuaded Mrs. Tedder to go over to Smith Nichols’ home for a while.' And in the meantime all the neigh bors turned in and set tables under the beautiful trees near the spring at the Tedder home, and then loaded the tables with a bounteous feast So, when Elder Tedder and his wife came home, they found a host of friends and a delightful dinner all set - to surprise and to welcome them. .. ' The story really goes bade 40 years, when G. M. Tedder as * young man of 22 had married a sister of Eel Jarvis in the spring and then in the autumn sold his place and went to live in Kentucky. After 40 years in Kentucky they still were home sick for Alleghany county, and so, recently they came back and bought a place within a mile of the one they sold when they went away. Thus the dinner was a token of appreciation of Elder and Mrs. Tedder and a welcome on their homecoming to Alleghany county. After a big dinner, which in cluded cake enough for every body and then some more, Elder Tedder gave a talk in which he expressed their deep appreciation for the kindness and esteem thus shown them. Then followed a grand time of singing, led by F. M. Joines, and fallowing the songs. Elder Charles Andrew* preached. After that the time was given to social intercourse which continued on until nearly n«Wt
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