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ALLEGHANY STAR-K TIMES OVER HALF A CENTURY OF SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY 53rd. Year. - No. 1. Sparta, N. C. Thursday, August 38, 1941. __ V 7 mwm Washington, D. C.—A famed European economist, who has ex perienced the dreadful conse quence of inflation at first hand, tells jus that he is applied at the easy fatalism with which many Americans discuss the “in evitabjility” of inflation n thi» country. Inflation, he points out, is not a natural calamity like art earth* juake or a hurricane; but it is caused rather by the actions and policies of the government! The term “inflation” has come to be used as a synonym for high-f «r pr ees or even as a synonym for prosperity. But a real in flatten is hardly possible except •when a government’s budget is so un balanced that it has to bor row beyond its ability to repay —even over a long period oi years. 1 Inflation can be avoided wher an administration has the courage to tax away the excess purchas ing power in the hands of the great bulk of the population anc to for :e it into loans to the gov emme it. Since everything point! to. thii • course being followed by our g( vernment, there is no rea son td fear inflation either at present or in the future. Most of King George’s loyal subject^ would be thunderstruck if the King appeared among them puffing! at a cigarette. Only in private does King George VI smoke, getting through about 20 a day in normal times. His first cigarette is after breakfast. While going through his letters he has one or two, and always lights up at eleven o’clock when he stops work f< r ten minutes to have a cup of tea. Only privileged callers at th< palace 1 ave seen the King enjoy Ing a cigarette during an audi ence. A rigid court rule is that no one may smoke in his presence until offered a cigarette. When Premier Churchill goes to have lunch with his Majesty, he puffs his cigar in an anteroom, and has it replaced by the King after their meal. — 4ais propagandists' arc bus; trying to minimize the import ance of the meeting betweer President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. The chief grist for their mill is the narrow margin —one vote—by which the House passed the resolution for an ex tension of military training. The; argue that this performance proves that the people of the United States are not united. In arriving at this conclusion the Nazi propagandists ignore the extent to which politics played a part in the close vote. Whal they can’t ignore, however, h the fact that we have alreadj reachedi a point in the process ol rearmament where our produc tion of every weapon of moderi wartime is being forcefully fel . on all fighting fronts—includinf • Russia! The man in the street, true t« the American tradition of speak ing one’s own mind, is asking, il ’ Churchill sold Roosevelt a bil! of goods. There is no sign tha , Churchill did, since the meethn; was Roosevelt’s idea. The Presi dent prides himself on being able to outbargain anyone and on hin ability to keep a “selfish” poin . of view when the interests o11 the United States are at stake. The real decisions reached by both statesmen will undoubtedly show up in action. Those decis ions concerning peace were only secondary to the present business of a successful prosecution ol the war. What it probably means is that this country will assume more of the war burden withous necessarily becoming involved ii actual shooting. Piney Creek Piney Creek, Aug. 26.—Mi> and Mrs. F. S. Delp and family, of Piney Creek, had as visitor* last week Mrs. Delp’s father, L. N. York, of Independence, also her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. York, of Huntington, W. Va. GQ©mK]@GJ> MOOT - - ■ ■ ■ Our world Intense Fighting from Baltic to Black Sea Moscow.—Massive battles of men and machines rage on unchecked from the Baltic to the Black Sea and in tremendous air battles before Leningrad the Russians reported 156 Nazi planes destroyed in the sky and one airdrome in two days. Below, the almost continuous fighting for mastery of the air above the Soviet Union’s second city, Russian military dispatches said, German panzers, motorcyclists and infantry charging toward the Baltic port were being mowed down in windrows by Soviet machine-gunners in forest canopied redoubts. • • • # British and Russians are Busy in Persia London.—Negotiations were under way in Tehran last night seeking to call off the two-day-old British and Russian invasion of Iran where British imperial forces, aided by air-borne troops, have seized two key oil centers and the important port of Bandar Shahpur. A British communique announced'the cap ture of the oil centers of Naft-I-Shah near the Iraqi border and Abadan, the latter the world’s fourth big gest oil installation and told of the seizure of seven German and Italian ships in Bandar Shahpur on the Gulf of Persia. In the north powerful Russian forces sweeping down across the towering Armenian Moun . tains were reported nearing Tabriz, second city of Iran and vital railroad point 80 miles inside the Iranian border. Germans Abolish Lodges in Belgium Berlin.—The German military commander in Bel gium decreed yesterday immediate dissolution of all Free Mason lodges and institutions as well as similar organizations and other affiliates. Property of such organizations was confiscated in favor of Belgium, the commentary Dienst aus Deutchland said. It add ed the purpose of the decree was to “guarantee the maintenance of order” in Belgium. • • • Sabotage Becoming Very Serious in France Vichy, Unoccupied France.—German and French authorities, seeking to stem a tide of disorders in occupied France, decreed new death penalties yester day for failure to halt railway sabotage. French civilian watchmen conscripted to mount guard over railways around Paris will pay with their lives for any sabotage in their sectors under the new ruling. • • • France Very Disunited Under Petain Vichy, France.—A rump parliament, headed by former Premier Edouard Herriot and composed of more than 100 members, has established a permanent organization opposing the regime of Marshall Henri Philippe Petain, it was disclosed yesterday. The group, many of whom are senators and deputies in Vichy as “refugees,” already has met in rump session here and decided to maintain opposition to Petain’s efforts to eliminate them completely from national life before their mandates expire next May. • • • Japan Very Disturbed by Delicate Situation London.—Japan has asked Russia to give “serious attention” to shipments of United States war materials en route to Vladivostok because it creates a “delicate and embarrassing situation” for Japan. The Japanese ambassador to Russia told Foreign Commisar Molo-. tov on Monday that the shipments by the United States of materials bought by Russia, such as oil and . benzine, create a delicate situation for Japan because they “must pass near Japanese territory.” United States Strikes at Japan Anew Washington.—The United States struck at Japan from a new direction yesterday when President Roose velt announced that a military mission will be sent to embattled China within the next two weeks. Mr. Roosevelt said that the mission, headed by Brigadier General John Magruder, will study the military situ ation in China’s four-year struggle jjpith Japan and co-ordinate extension of lend-lease ap to China.. • • • rwo New Ships a Day, the New Program Washington.—Another expansion in the country’s shipbuilding program with a view to turning out two ships a day in 1942 and 1943 was announced yester day by the maritime commission. Within a few hours after President Roosevelt had signed a bill providing $1,698,650,000 in cash and contract authorizations for ships and shipbuilding facilities, the commission re ported that it had negotiated for the construction of 23 additional ways and 66 freighters of the C design. • • • VI ay be Lindbergh Will Speak in Oklahoma Oklahoma City.—Charles A. Lindbergh will speak in Oklahoma Friday “even if he has to use a cow pas ture,” a spokesman for the America First Committee said yesterday after the city council cancelled a per mit for use of the municipal auditorium. If we can’t get a place here we’ll go somewhere else. But he definitely will speak, and it will be in Oklahoma, added Herbert K. Hyde. _~ if gems for your SCRAPBOOK SELF-RESPECT No more important city can be urged upon those who are enter ing the great theatre of life than simple loyalty to their best con victions.—-Chapin. To have a respect for our selves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others gov erns our manners.—Sterne. What has an individual gained by losing his, own self-respect? or what has he lost when, retain ing his own, he loses the homage of fools, or the pretentious praise of hypocrites, false to themselves as to others?—Mary Baker Eddy. to the happiness »e mentally faith -Thomas Paine. is the noblest gar which a man may the most elevating Henderson Promises Action to Stabilize Prices of Gasoline The Senate commerce com mittee Tuesday ordered a sweep ing investigation 'of the east coast petroleum shortage as Presi dent Roosevelt predicted the situ ation would ease materially by next spring—barring a strong Nazi .offensive in the North At lantic; Price Control Administrator Leon Henderson promised that action will be taken within 48 hours lo stabilize retail gasoline prices. feeling (with which the mind can be inspired.—Samuel Smiles. He that respects himself is safe ' from others; He wears a chat of mail that none can pierce. , , --Longfellow. If you haven’t time to go—stay at home! * A ., Elza Cox Said To Have Been Seen In Wythe County A posse comprising Wytheville | police and county and state offic ers, using bloodhounds, has combed the Speedwell and Cripple Creek sections, out from Wytheville, in response to a report that Elza Cox, wanted in the slaying on Saturday night, August 16, in the Fries Theatre, of Miss Pauline Payne, had been seen by two youths fishing. A heavy rain Sunday night caused a halt in the search, though all officers in Wythe and Grayson counties remained on the alert for the 25-year-old man.' The two boys are said to have appeared positive in their identi fication of Cox. They called Wytheville after seeing the man they believed to be the fugitive, in a wooded area along the creek. This was the second report that Cox had been seen in the Wythe county area. Saturday, officers searched the Cripple Creek sec tion after Marshall Kirby had re ported having seen a man answer ing Cox’s description enter the woods near his home late Friday afternoon. Kirby also said that he had missed milk from his springhouse on three successive mornings. Announcement was made sev eral days ago that a reward in the sum of $250 had been offered by the Town of Fries and the Grayson County Board of Super visors for the apprehension of Cox, or information leading to his arrest. livestock Market j Has Anotfier Big Run August 18 With perhaps the largest ran of cattle for the season thus far, the New Galax Livestock Market, at its weekly auction event in Felts park Monday, August 18, made sales amounting to approxi mately 826,000. More than 2,000 head of stock was handled during the auction. There was a large run of small heifers and these, as well as most other classes of stock, sold welL There was also a big lot of sheep handled during the day. These sold for gs high as $10.60 per hundredweight. Producers are urged to have their stock at the yards in Felts park as early on sale days as pos sible, in order that the work may be carried along more smoothly, and with less delay, on the part of both buyer and seller. Patience Personified There was once a brainy baboon Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, “It appears That in billions of years I am certain to hit on a tune.” Keep yo^r temper when driv ing—no one else wants it! Keeping Score On The War Three expert European score-keepers are Major George Fielding Eliot, Elmer Davis and William Shirer (left to right), CBS war news analysts. Shirer took over for Davis on August 21 while the latter vacations for two weeks from Columbia’s daily news broadcast, “Elmer Davis and The News.” W. M. U. Circle Met At Mrs. Halsey’s Circle No. 1 of the W. M. U. met at the home of Mrs. R. C. Halsey on Thursday. The hos tess conducted the devotionals and Mrs. C. A. Reeves had charge of the program, “An Urgent Gospel Demands Trained Workers.” Mrs. Ralph Parker discussed “The Need of Trained Heralds”; Mrs. V. W. Sears told about the Southern Training School at El Paso, Tex as, the W. M. U. Training School at Louisville, Ky., and the Bap tist Bible Institute at New Or leans, La. Another member told of Training Schools in foreign lands. The Standard of Excel lence for W. M. S. was empha sized by Mrs. A. O. Joines. Mrs. Sears, the president, ap pointed a committee on Church Library for .associational use. Mrs. Adams, of Atlanta, Ga., was a visitor. The next meeting will be held with Mrs. Foster Hackler with Mrs. Jones Waddell as associate hostess. Auto Thief Angered The Owner Over in Jacksonville, N. C., last week Guy Lockamy’s automobile was stolen 10 minutes after he had parked it. But what made Guy jumping mad was that the fellow who swiped the oar drove right past him—and he didn’t recognize his own car. Oxford Singing Group Tomorrow At Piney Creek Don’t miss it! Tomorrow, Fri-1 day night, at the Piney Creek school auditorium, the Oxford Orphanage Singing Group will give a program that will delight every listener. Those who have heard them will want to hear again, and those who have not heard will want to hear this time. Tickets may be had from any committee member. STICK TO YOUR JOB! Prof. Blum Addressed Woman’s Club Last Thursday afternoon the Woman’s Club met in the Assem by room of the county office building and listened to an in- j spiring address by Prof. J. K. | Blum, of Columbia, S. C., on the subject of, “Our Share in Keep ing America Great.” His plea to the women was to lend their every aid and influence toward keeping our children and our families healthy and properly trained, and then morally straight. He emphasized that the health of our young people is largely in the mothers’ hands. And mothers need to be encouraged and taught how to do a better job of keeping their families in health. Dr. Blum touched also on public health problems and urged vigi lance. Mrs. H. W. Spaugh, of Wins ton-Salem, was present as a visi tor. He Thinks A Campus Is For Camping Durham, N. C. reports that a year ago officers found a, man camping on the Duke University campus. He was chased away. The other day Deputy Sheriff J. M. Mangum found the same fel low—tent, shotgun, bear trap and all—in Duke Forest, a project of the university forestry school adjacent to the campus. Virginia-Carolina Picnic in West is Outstanding Success One hundred and fifty-six per sons attended the annual Virgrinia North Carolina picnic occasion at the J. H. Carico ranch, near Bonita, Oregon, on Sunday, Aug ust 11. The event is an annual event, held each year on the sec ond Sunday in August, for Vir ginians and North Carolinians who go to Idaho and Oregon to take up their abode. Mrs. J. H. Carico, of Bonita, is the former Miss Mary M. Brewer, of Baywood. On this very enjoyable picnic occasion, music was furnished by the “Wild Rose” orchestra, of Ironside; “The Reeds,” of Bo nita; the “Lydias,” of Nampa, and many others. Mr. Klemme, of the Oregon State Land board, gave a very interesting talk on some. of his experiences w h i 1 e traveling through Russia and neighboring countries. An abundance of grood “eats” was partaken of, and it seemed that each person present thor oughly enjoyed the annual event. Drunk Insists On Visit To Kinsman It all happened in Orangeburg, S. C., only last week, that a man under the influence of whiskey called at the county jail and de manded the right to see a kins man being held prisoner. He was accommodated—for an extended period. Britain Loses 29th Submarine The admiralty in London announced the loss of the m marine Union—the 29th since 1 war began. Former Charlotte. Postmaster Indicted Lieutenant Colonel Paul R. Younts, former Charlotte post master, and three other former employees of the post office at ^ Charlotte were indicted yester day by a federal grand jury in Asheville for violating the cor rupt practices act. Others named in the indict ment were Thomas J. Talbert, Jr., and W. C. Aired, former postal clerks, and Sidney Croft, former • assistant building custod ian. The government accused the men of violating a section of the code pertaining to solicitation of employees for political purposes. Younts now is on duty with the army at Fort Jackson, S. C. A successor as postmaster was named some time ago, and the other three men were suspended from service pending outcome of the charges. The grand jury returned the indictments along with another in an unrelated case shortly be fore noon after nearly two days of testimony. District Judge E. Yates Webb, of Shelby, then dis missed the jurors. Most of Monday was spent in hearing witnesses in the post of fice case. Among those who tes tified were Detective Chief Frank N. Littejohn, of Charlotte, Pos tal Inspectors E. K. Mansfield and R. B. Beatson, and several employees of the Charlotte post office. Sparta Postmaster To Be Selected In C. S. Examination Announcement is made that a Civil Service examination will be held soon for the purpose of find ing a suitable person to fill the vacancy in the Sparta Postmas tership caused by the resignation of G. Glenn Nichols. Sam Brown is serving as Acting Postmaster until a permanent one can be chosen. Application blanks for those who wish to take the examination may be secured from the Sparta post office. Applicants must have resided in the Sparta area at least one year just prior to the examination, to be eligible. All applications must be on file in the office of the Civil Service Com mission in Washington, D. C., by Friday, September 12th. Royal-Mile* Reunion The annual reunion of the Royal and Miles families will be held on Sunday, September 7th, beginning at 10 o’clock, at Mt. Carmel .church, one mile south of Cherry Lane. F. T. Lewellyn, of Dobson, is expected and will be the principal speaker. Several singing choirs are ex pected. Dinner will be held on the grounds and everybody has a cor dial invitation to come and bring a well-filled basket of food. —J. A. J. Royal, Secretary A chance taker is an accident maker. Next Sunday At The Churches >t 31, 35th the fifth for Another Good Bear Story From Alaska From Anchorage in Alaska comes the story of Mrs. J. S. Wood, who was cooking dinner in her Lake Spenard home when she saw a black bear wandering aim lessly. Taking up her rifle, she trailed the bear for a quarter mile and then shot it. She went back to the kitchen to find that her husband—who already had shot his season's bear—had kept the dinner from burning, and he dished it up in her honor. The bear weighed 300 pounds.