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ALLEGHANY STAR-kTIMES OVER HALF A CENTURY OF SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY 52nd. Year. - No. 51. Sparta, N. C. Thursday, August 14, 1941. Now that the Russo-German war has precipitated the downfall of another cabinet, the Japanese, some political thinkers are en tertaining a hope that Japan will henceforth veer away from the Axis. We are of the opinion that those indulging in such wish ful thinking will be disillusioned. The new “Renovation Cabinet” is the most militaristic Cabinet in Japanese history. Prince Konoye, founder of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, the Japan ese totalitarian movement, re mains the Premier. Baron Hira numa, arch advocate of totali tarianism, has become the Vice Premier. Under the Prince and the Baron, there are three ad mirals (Toyoda, Oikawa, Sakonji) and four generals (Tojo, Koizumi, Yanagawa, Suzuki) holding key positions in the Cabinet. Never in history has the Japanese Gov ernment been so completely domi nated by the Army and the Navy. The new Cabinet, through Premier Konoye, has already de clared that the establishment of the “New Order in Greater East Asia” remains the fixed policy of the Empire. “I inteVid to do everything in my power,” says the Premier, “to accomplish the great ideal on which the foun dation of our Empire is based by overcoming' all difficulties that may lie in my country’s path.” Only seven or eight weeks ago—after the conquest of Greece and the fall of Crete—gloom in Washington was a foot thick. To day, with Hitler’s best troops deeply embroiled in Russia, many of the gloomy prophets of a few weeks ago have turned optimists. Signs multiply that Hitler may meet his Waterloo on his Eastern front. These signs account for the growing optimism even among the highest officials of this Gov ernment. Army officers emphasize that the war in Russia is reveal ing the technique that can be ap plied to Stop Hitler’s armies when or if it becomes a necessity to again fight him on the continent. An early defeat of Germany is not likely.' What is happening to silk in this country may not prove to be a cataastrophic blow to the fair sex. Even before this govern ment decided to curtail our com mercial dealing with Nippon, silk was doomed. Tear after year, nylon, rayon and other artificial fibers were displacing it. Yet silk is not likely to go the way of the horse and buggy. A fiber with a history that goes back mote than 5,000 years will no more disappear than furs have disappeared. The fair sex need not fear. Silk, so dear to their hearts, will return in good time. in orie The mayoralty campaign paign lor luviTUOf 01 New j to follow riekt year are regarded as having an important bearing on the national political picture in 1944. the political fortunes of Mayor F. H. LaGuardla, Dis trict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, and Wendell L. Willkie will be vitally affected. Tyro More Cases Infantile Paralysis Dr. Robert Kin* district health officer, reports two additional cases of infantile paralysis in Alleghany county this week. The cases of Clyde Jones, 14 year-old girl of the Scottville community and Dorothy Sue Royal, three-year-old child of the Miles section, were reported. Forethought aids motorists! FQB3J6FENSB BUY UN1T&& AMKktCA ON OVABDl tJ;'*-1-’ ' ' --* ■ _'-^■-l ' Our world... France Joins Germany in FoB Collaboration Vichy, France.—Marshal Petain fatefully sum moned France to collaborate willingly with Germany last night, gravely calling upon the nation to share with her conqueror in recasting the map of the world. The 85-year-old chief of state announced his momen tous decision in a radio address in which he frankly admitted to his uneasy countrymen that his own program for the regeneration of France had not succeeded and that French democracy was dead. He aligned France squarely beside Germany in her fight against Russia, a fight which can change the map of the world. • • • Major Crisis in Franco-American Relations Washington.—A major crisis developed last night in Franco-American relations, and predictions were heard of Capitol Hill that the United States would break off diplomatic links with Vichy and perhaps take over such strategic French possessions as the Island of Martinique. Secretary of State Hull clearly hinted that his worst fears had been confirmed by the elevation of Vice-Admiral Jean Harlan to supreme command of France’s armed forces and other indi cations of French full collaboration with Hitler. • • • German Successes Toward The Black Sea Berlin.—German troops stormed forward to the shores of the Black Sea yesterday, hemming in large Russian forces in the Odessa area and making the Red Army’s position in the Ukraine virtually unten able, German military sources declared last night. • • • All Army Service Extended 18 Months Washington.—The House last night passed a Senate-approved resolution proclaiming the nation in jeopardy and extending by 18 months the service of all army men—selectees, national guardsmen, reserv ists and regular enlisted personnel. The final roll call vote was announced as 203 to 202. It was so close that Speaker Rayburn ordered a recapitulation. The recapitulation, however, showed the same vote—203 to 202—and Rayburn declared the measure approved. The momentous vote was taken after Democratic Lead er John W. McCormack, of Massachusetts, warned that “the interest of the nation transcends that of the individual.” “Time has passed,” he declared. “Our enemies have moved. We know that Japan is moving and that Vichy is falling into German hands.” It was on that keynote that the chamber overwhelmed all opposition and swept to passage a measure that will affect the lives of millions of young Americans. • • • Agree To One Thing, Do Something Else Manila.—The Japanese are planning, to place 180,000 troops in French Indo-China, the majority of them in West Cambodia adjoining the border of Thailand, it was learned authoritatively last night. Foreign observers agree that the Japanese will enter Thailand when they are organized and prepared to meet British troops now stationed in Burma and British Malaya along the west and northwestern Thai border. The number of troops the Japanese are reported planning to move in Indo-China is far greater than was announced officially by the French Indo China government July 30, that under agreement with Tokyo the Japanese would move only 40,000 troops into southern Indo-China to occupy military bases granted Japan on heir demand. In northern Indo-China the Japanese last September were given permission to garrison 6,000 troops, but the number Atnerican-built Planes Raid Germany London.—American-built ftying fortresses bombed Cologne and Ebden yesterday in daring daylight, raids as the royal air force carried the joint Russo-British air Offensive to a large number Of Objectives in Gei< many and occupied territory, the air ministry an nounced. The raids were described authoritatively as the deepest daylight R. A. F. penetration into Ger many and the greatest fighter offensive of the entire war. Senator Reynolds Eng&gfed to Wed Again Washington.—North Carolina’s debonair Senator Robert R. Reynolds yesterday admitted he is engaged to wed Miss Evalyn Washington McLean, 20-year-old heiress daughter of Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean, world renowned hostess and owner of the fabulous Hope diamond. Climaxing a day of excited buzzing in capital society circles, the 56-year-old senator last night stated: “It is true that we are engaged, but we t,have not set the date for the marriage.” This would be the fourth marriage for the movie-star kissing sena tor who has been known as the only man in public life who could hold the hands of two ladies and also keep a third one h^apy, all at the same time. Kremlin Hit by Bombs, Germans Assert Berlin, Aug. 11 (Monday).—The luftwaffe scored a direct hit on the Kremlin with a heavy bomb and showered “many thousands of incendiaries” and ex: I plosives on Moscow Saturday night in the heaviest raid of the Jrqt oh the Russian capital, German sources reported early today. Wu GM’. rmm in Popular Magaaitte In the Star-Tiines of July 31 fcaftioh was made of the quot ing by the New York Timet rtmaHc by a Sparta gtrt, Lou Reed Landreth, in Wa tori; ri. d., Where shO lb a t»ry to Leon H'ehdertbhv who ia PHsidtoit Roosevelt’s ptWe fixer, We' current issue tit Look 1 sine carries ah article by ile Bargeiron on “r. D. *.’S It Guy,” and among the many pictures, one at the top of page 86 shows Mr. Henderson dictating to Miss Landreth, who is Gie daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Landreth, of Sparta. nifff n irwnnwrryr“r^f^i>" -*— — ' N ■njf M»«»» UMM/M* ■«»># nwrrn mrfrnr MI—97Ht tjlTKH IH THf BATTLE OP Tomorrow Ten Go To Fort Bragg, Eleven Next Month Ten men are to report tomor row under the Selective Service law to be sent on to Fort Bragg for army training. They are, George R. Long, Levi E. Broy hill, Romie L. Spurlin, Paul A. Vernon, Levi J. Caudill, Holton B. Taylor, Robert L. Fortner, Paul V. Evans, Eddie B. Smith and Garnett G. Wagoner. These ten make a total of 50 who have been sent from Alle ghany county. And now the draft board is called upon to select eleven more names of men to be sent to Fort Bragg on September 16. This new list will doubtless include some of those who registered re- j cently, as the old lists are becom- j ing depleted. Everett Wiles Of Wilkes Sentenced Everett Wiles in Wilkes court last Friday afternoon was sen tenced to from 22 to 30 years in the state penitentiary for the murder of Nathan Wyatt, Rock Creek township constable, on March 24, 1932, nine years ago. j Sentence was pronounced by | Judge*Clarence E. Blackstock af- j ter Wiles, through counsel, enter- ■ ed a plea of guilty to second de- I gree murder, which was accepted j by Solicitor Avalon E. Hall and: J. H. Whicker and T. S. Bryan, | of the private prosecution. Solicitor Hall said he accepted the plea reluctantly, but realized that the state’s case was weak in proving premediation and delib eration, two essentials for con viction of first degree murder. Judge Blackstock commended both sides for the plea, saying that there was little likelihood that the jury Would have re turned a vterdict of first degree murder and that the eVfdence' of the state and defense Was con tradictory on several points. Wiles, Who was Showing the strain of the trial which began Tuesday, took the sentence calm ly and without comment. He had said during his testimony that the seven years in federal prison, which he received for counterfeit ing, had hurt his nerves and physical condition. Judge Blackstock commented that WlleS, who confessed to a lohg list of crimes in many states, Was remarkably intelligent, and that his testimony and teat of corroborating witnesses was suf ficient to cast doubt on the out come of the case. On The Dizzy Home front Not for Americana do bombs drop from the skies, as yet. But plain absent-mindedness causes embarrassment enough on the home front. The city of Jenks, Okla., dis covered that its one-room jail had been sold ... by the county . . . for taxes . . . for one dol lar. Fort Lewis, Wash., was unable to use its new gas-proof shelter because three skunks moved in. An absent-minded Hopkinsville, Ky., man enthusiastically rang the church bell—on Saturday. A Florida League ball team went hitless for five innings and then scored 20 runs in the sixth. The man who prints the park ing tags for Haverhill, Mass., was presented with one—officially. The first penalty under a new parking-meter system in Tulsa, Okla., was imposed on the man who had installed the meters. A Rockford, 111., judge had to hear so many parking cases that before he got through he was tagged for overtime parking him self. A marriage license applicant in Oklahoma City had to rush home to find out his flaneee’s came. A Kingstree, S. €., man-turned back an unused marriage license because his girl wouldn’t say yes when he was drunk, and he wouldn’t propose when he . m SYMPHONY OF WAR ri , . , , . . . —Passed by Censor. looks like a xylophone but it’s a row of Bren gun barrels being gauged in a Toronto munitions plant. Canada which made no weapons of this kind before the war now possesses a factory that has the largest °fLany®utomatlc P”1 in the world. Many of the workers in the plant are women and they have proved themselves to be adept in this kind of employment. All the requirements of the Canadian armed forces ire being met by this one factory and large numbers of Bren guns are being supplied to Great Britain.- For these guns and many other muni, tions required by Great Britain, Canada is finding much of the money. British w»rnan* h pre,?nt_fi,c*1 y«*r. the Dominion expects to finance f,7..i •C*nad* *0 the extent of »1,500,000,000, which is Th**rt0 5?3’®?0’®00’00® ,n terms of American population and income. The Canadian taxpayers are providing the cash. “You Can’t Do Business With Hitler” It is the title of a book by an American official who knows Naziism from years of experi ence in Berlin. But let Charles Michelson, Director of Publicity for the Democratic National Com mittee tell the story. When it is urged by those concerned with American national defense that a Hitler triumph would spell slavery for the non Nazi world, some people are in clined to regard the statement to a propagandist exaggeration. Wild to it sounds, it is a simple actuality. The totalitarian project is the establishment of a system under which the supremacy' of one set Of Germans will be established. They are to constitute a universal aristocracy, arrogating to them selves all the power, ail the wealth and all the opportunities of a superior race. This is not, according to the Hitler program, to embrace all the German peo ple. The German farmer, for example, must stick to the farm. He may not sell it or mortgage it except with express consent of the government. It descends to his eldest son, who must marry a farm girl. Gradually the system is being extended to industrial workers, mechanics, etc. The younger sons are to be taken into the army and subsequently be supplied with farms of their own in the conquered countries. Higher education is being re stricted to a small class of the ruling Germans. As Douglas Mil ler, who was our Commercial At tache in Berlin during the whole of the Nasi regime, put it, this restriction “will soon fellow exact scientific and technical knowledge to die out among the slave peo ples. After a generation they will be Uhfeble to use the tools of modern science as their own.” Mr. Miller mentions also another grbup of leaders, who will con stitute what amounts to a super fine gangster mob in the gov ernment service. "They must be fanatically loyal to Hitler and the Naii movement and imbued with the idea of the master race and their chosen privilege at leaders. This group Will riot b< burdened by conscientious doubti arid inner troublings of tin spirit-” The Nazis have no inhibition! based on the beatitudes. Profes sor Spengler, for example, in hi book, “The Decline of the West,’ announced, “the Democratic na tions must disappear, because the: put their trust in illusions, mor< particularly the illusions of tnitl and justice. There is only om reality in the world—force.” School Assistance For Worthy Younf People According to an announcement made today by Superintendent W. C. Thompson of the Alleghany County Schools, William Watkins, NYA Student Work Officer, will be at the Sparta High School building at 9 o’clock a. m. on Wednesday, August 20, to inter view white and Negro students needing NYA in-school assistance in order to attend the county schools during the coming year. To qualify for the NYA Student Work Program a boy or girl must be at least 16 years of age 8nd must peed the funds to prop erly continue his or her educa tion. Saving Time, Or 8 o’clock E.S;T. By attending this meeting the workers wfll be able to start work almost immediately at the open ing date of school, avoiding about a month’s delay. Each year the NYA program has assisted thousands of worthy and needy boys and girls in the state to enter or remain in school, who otherwise would find it difficult to continue their edu cation. Bus Drivers Will Attend School Bus drivers and substitute driv ers will attend a special school beginning on Thursday, August 21 offered by the highway safety division in co-operation with the highway patrol. Classes, which are to begin al 7:30 a. m. and last until 6 p. m., will pn^ably be held in the Sparta Hith school building, Superintendent W. C. Thompson stated. Necessary forms and ma terials will be furnished by the safety division, and a representa tive from the office of Roland Hocutt will serve as instruetoi at the school. Lesson In, Grammar Those who dislike formal gram mar will have another grudgi against it when they read Gil christ Lawson’s deAnition of I , kiss in “That Reminds Me.” “A kiss,” says the deAnition , “is a noun, but it is general!] used as a conjunction. It h , never declined, and is more com mon than proper. It is not ver; . singular, in that it is usuall] used in the plural. It agree with me.”—Boston Globe. Any weather is dangerous fo hasty drivers. i i I Old Fiddlers To Compete Friday And Saturday Everything is practically in readiness for the eighth annual I Old Fiddlers convention, which is S to be conducted Friday and Sat urday nights, August 15 and 16, in Felts park, at Galax. The event is. sponsored by the Galax Lodge, Loyal Order of Moose, and the Galax Parent-Teacher as sociation. ' Crowds perhaps larger than any that have attended similar events here in past years are ex pected to be on hand for the contests Friday and Saturday nights, and noted musical author ities from distant points will be in attendance. A large number of contestants have already reg istered. A total of $132.50 in prizes will be awarded contest winners. In case of rain, the contests will be held in the Galax High school auditorium. Much interest is being shown in plans for the big event. Mrs. Alan Lomax, Jerome Wiesner and Dr. Charles Seegar, of the Library of Congress, Wash ington, D. C., will attend, and will have with them a sound ma chine, and will make recordings of the numbers played and sung by the various contestants during the two-night program. Announce ment to this effect was made by the secretary, Mrs. R. C. Bowie. Musicians will compete in fid dle, banjo, guitar, dulcimer, band, folk song and flat-foot dance. Governor Doughton Bar Association Vice-President Last Saturday the 11th Judicial District Bar Association held their annual summer meeting at the home of L. W. Ferrell at Boaring Gap. Following luncheon Governor Doughton gave a short talk, and the election of officers resulted in William B. Austin, of Asha county, being chosen president* with Governor Doughton vice president for Alleghany county, and Floyd Crouse of Alleghany a member of the executive com mittee. Two Popular Sparta Teachers Resign It seems to be reliably reported that Miss Nina Gray Liles and Thomas Haigwood have resigned from the faculty of Sparta High school to accept more remunera tive positions elsewhere. Mr. Roe announces that Miah Ann Worth, of West Jefferson, is coming to take up the work left by Miss Liles. No one has beeii secured as yet for Mr. Haig wood’s place. * Miss Fairy Bedwell, of In dependence, is coming to teach the music at Sparta High school. Next Sunday ji At The Churches j p]n»nniiiiiiuiiiinMiiminiiimiutinm»iuinmi>iiuinr«l August 17, 33rd Sunday Methodist churches: I; Sparta at 11 o’clock. Walnut Branch at 3 o’clock. ' Chestnut Hill at 11 o’clock. Nathans Creek at 7:30 o’clock. Presbyterian churches: Glade Valley at 11 o’clock. Rocky Ridge at 3 o’clock, decoration at Perry cemetery, near Rocky Ridge church, at Jt o’clock. Baptist churches: Sparta at 8 o’clock. Laurel Springs at 11 o’clock. Liberty at 11 o'clock. 1 Primitive Baptist churches: J Little River at 11 o’clock. V.nion Baptist churches: V Pleasant Grove. Saddle Mountain. I
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