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Brief Review Of State, National And World News During The Past Week RAF FORCES BOMB BERLIN ON SUNDAY London. — The RAF machine gunned German troops and war stations in Northern France in widespread Sunday assaults after hurling a mighty armada—said to number between 200 and 300 planes—against Berlin in a big Saturday night raid. Patrol vessels, aircraft on the ground, gun posts and an air drome as well as Nazi troops were attacked by the RAF in low level daylight Sunday raids, the air ministry announced early Monday. It added four Nazi fighters were destroyed to one British craft. Hardly had these raiders re turned before squadron after squadron of RAF craft swung SPARTAN Theatre SPARTA, N. C. FRI., SAT., AUG. 8-9 CHARLES STARRETT —IN— The Pinto Kid Chapter No. 13 “WHITE EAGLE” ALSO COMEDY MON., TUES., AUG. 11-12 IS HE'S THE TOPS! Mldosyslhl* 1 tnnnt—i 'big busl- * M«,'iadwo I mu troabUI | Tba Hardys' bit! LATEST NEWS! WED. ONLY, AUG. 13 —ON THE STAGE— THE FAMOUS Carter Family You have heard their records! You have heard them on the air! NOW IS YOUR CHANCE TO SEE THEM! —ON THE SCREEN— JACKIE COOPER —IN— THURS. ONLY, AUG. 14 Knockout Chapter No. 8 “CAPTAIN MARVEL” ALSO SHORT SUBJECT Life With across the channel again Sunday night, plastering coastal bases with bombs whose explosions lit up this side of the channel. They still were at it long past midnight. PLAN PRICE CONTROL PROGRAM BY CONGRESS Washington—Congressional sen timent for inclusion of controls over both wages and private cre dit in the administration’s price fixing bill developed rapidly on the eve of initial public hearings on the far-reaching measure. The House banking committee arranged to start hearing testi mony on the measure Sunday with Leon Henderson, head of the office of price administration in the O. P. M., as the first witness. Republican members of the committee contended the legisla tion would be ineffective unless it was revised to give the gov ernment authority to regulate pri vate credit, which they described as the prime source of inflation. JAPANESE ARE MOVING FORWARD IN PACIFIC Tokyo. — Japan moved ahead Sunday with its expansion pro gram for a “new order” in the south Pacific and the press, filled with caustic criticism of the Uni ted States and Britain, hinted that the next major move might be against Thailand. (In Shanghai, the Japanese army organ, Sin Shun Pao, stated that after settlement of the French Indo-China question Jap an will use a “political blitzkrieg to crystalize the clouds looming over Thailand” and warned the United States to consider serious ly the Japanese navy “which is ready to remove obstacles pre venting establishment of the new order.”) GASOLINE STATIONS CLOSE SUNDAY NIGHT New York. — Gasoline stations along the Eastern Seaboard pumped steadily Saturday night as motorists rushed up for a fi nal filling before the regional gasoline sales curfew became ef fective Sunday night. In many cases week end bound motorists lugged big cans along to use for reserve supplies in case their machines ran dry during the dusk-to-dawn moratorium. This was the first popular re action to Secretary of the Inter ior Harold L. Ickes’ recommenda tion that gasoline stations lock their pumps from 7 p. m. to 7 a. m., in an effort to conserve sup plies and counteract the effect of a shortage of tanker ships, princi pal method of transporting gaso line to the eastern states. In New York city, hundreds of worried taxi cab drivers bright ened when word came from John W. Frey, director of marketing in the office of the petroleum co ordinator in Washington, that gasoline could be sold to com mercial vehicles, including taxis and trucks. THOMAS SAYS DEFENSE WORK IS LAGGING Buffalo, N. Y. — R. J. Thomas, president of the CIO United Au tomobile Workers, proposed anew the union’s plan “to prevent the threatened dislocation of the in dustry” and contended the nat ional defense pregram is lagging seriously. “To a greater extent than we like to believe,” he said in a CBS radio address on the eve of the opening of the UAW-CIO sixth annual convention, “our national defense program is still in the blue print or ‘on order’ stage. “Statistics telling of billions of dollars of orders for defense ma terial are impressive; unfortun ately, the Hitler war machine will not be stopped by grand plans alone. We need, Britain needs, the planes and ships, the tanks and shells now,” he said. NAVAL WAR HAS COST SWEDEN 109 S HIP S New York.—The war at sea has cost Sweden 751 lives and 109 ships, the Swedish American News Exchange said. The vessels lost totaled 427, 465 deadweight tons, the agency reported. Advice from Sweden said four vessels were sunk dur ing July but did not give the names of the craft. On the brighter, side, the ex change reported that a 4,571-ton motorship freighter arrived in Gothenberg on Thursday with a mixed cargo from New York, from where it sailed two weeks ago. Licensed through both Ger man and British blockades, she was the fourth ship to reach Go thenburg safely from New York in the past fortnight. Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down imme diately it is wanted. Men pay se verely who require credit. - ' —DOUGLAS JERROLD New Record “Thrills” President - - - - -- #$****<• $3it i President Roosevelt receives 1941 Infantile Paralysis Campaign report showing net proceeds far above all former totals. The re port was presented to the Presi dent at the White House by Keith Morgan, National Chairman of the Committee for the Celebration of the President’s Birthday, and Ba sil O’Connor, President of the National Foundation for Infantile °aralysis. Thv total of $2,104,460.53 ex . JoJ the former high record of 1940 by 49.5% or $6974114.79. The campaign closed January 30th last, President Roosevelt’s 59th; birthday and nearly 14,000 cele brations were held throughout the land. With the President, left to right, are: Keith Morgan D. Walker Wear, Assistant Na tional Chairman of the Commit-, tee for the Celebration of the President’s Birthday; George E: Allen, Vice-President of the Na tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis; James Forrestal. Vice President of the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis, and Basil O’Connor. Gary Cooper Gets Biggest Salary In U. S. For 1939 Washington.—Film Actor Gary j Coper, with a paycheck of $482, 820, led the nation’s industrial bigwigs and the motion picture colony as well, in a compilation of 1939 corporation salaries made public by the Treasury. The list did not include three of the leading Hollywood studios (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Univer sal, Columbia), however, and cor porate repprts on file with the securities ' commission indicated that Louis B. Mayer, head of M.-G.-M., remained on top of the salary list with $697,048, as he has for seevral years. Other actors may have topped Cooper, too. As far as the Treasury list went, however, the first 10 salaries (in cluding bonuses and commissions) for corporations keeping their books on either a 1939 calendar year or 1939-1940 fiscal year bas is, were ((giving names, employ ers, and compensation): Gary Cooper, Goldwyn and Paramount Pictures, $482,820; Thomas J. Watson, International Business Machines, $442,560; Geo. Washington Hill, American To- ■ bacco Company, $420,299; F. A. Countway, Lever Brothers Com pany (soap manufacturers), $383, 210; William S. Knuds.n, Gene ral Motors Corporation, $372, 366; James Cagney, Warner Bro thers Pictures, Argosy Corpora tion and Twentieth Century-Fox i Films, $320,000; A. A. Somerville, R. T. Vanderbilt Company, $278, 486; E. C. Stone, Employers’ Lia bility Assurance Corporation, $272S336; and E. G. Grace, Beth lehem Steel Company, $271,224. Nearly all these individuals have been close to the salary top in recent years, but it was the last year for Knudsen. Since then, he has become the unpaid direc tor general of the office of pro duction management in Wash ington. The list, however, represented only the salaries over $75,000 paid by corporations. It did not in clude many persons with much larger income who draw their checks from investments or other sources. Officials noted that 41 persons had incomes of $1,000, 000 or more in 1939 and few of their names were on the salary list. BRITISH FLEET AIDS NORTHERN RED TROOPS London.—An exchange tele graph agency dispatch from Go thenburg, Sweden, early Sunday quoted Finnish reports of the ar rival of a “great British fleet” in the Arctic Ocean to co-operate with the Russian armies in the north. The British warships were said by the Finnish newspaper Itla Sariomat to have reached the Arctic close by Finnish and Rus sian territory but there was no confirmation of this from any other quarter. British torpedo-planes operat ing from an aircraft carrier last week .heavily attacked the Fin nish Arctic port of Petssamo and nearby -Kirkenes in the German held northern tip of Norway. A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and - naturally human. Piney Creek News Mrs. G. Tom Perry Correspondent Miss Zenna Crouse, of Twin Oaks, spent Friday with Mrs. W. C. Weaver. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Perry and son, Jimmy, of Darlington, Md., are visiting friends and relatives here and at Wilkesboro. Miss Mildred Halsey is spend ing some time visiting in Mary land. Mr. Conley Halsey, of Roanoke, spent the week end with his pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Hal sey. Many from the community at tended memorial services at Mt. Zion Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Blaine McMeans spent the week end with Mrs. Mc Means. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Wittenberg, of Wilmington, Del., who have been spending their vacation with Mrs. Wittenberg’s mother, Mrs. W. C. Weaver, have prolonged their stay a few more days be cause of the illness of their daughter, Nancy Lee. Mr. Wit-1 tenberg is assistant chief engineer ! in the DuPont Building at Wil-1 rhington. Mrs. Wittenberg will be remembered as Mrs. Lissie Wea- ' ver Roupe. Mrs. W. F. Lowe, of Pore’s j Knob; Mrs. Bill Wittenberg and daughter, Nancy Lee and Mrs. W. C. Weaver, were dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Perry Sunday. Mrs. Oscar Gambill, Jr., and ba by son, Grady, visited Mrs. Gam bill’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Weaver, last week. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Baldwin announce the birth of a son. Mrs. Edd Billipgs and daugh DER FUEHRER SENDS GREETINGS TO IL DUCE Berlin. -— Adolf Hitler and Be nito Mussolini exchanged greet ings by telegram on the occasion ters, Hazel and Patsy, Miss Eve lyn Pettyjohn and Mrs. Octavia Wyatt visited Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hash Sunday. Miss Blanche Halsey, of Spar ta, spent the week end at home. of II Duce’s 58th birthday Tues day, it was disclosed Sunday. The German Fuehrer said he and the German people “express to you, II Duce, sincerest wishes for ycur personal well-being and for the future of the Italian peo ple which, under year leadership, 1 marches toward common vie i tory.” Mussolini replied with thanks, especially for the Italian people, | Alleghany Ladies - - Specially Invited To Visit Our Modern Shop! 1 •-• YOU’LL LIKE OUR NEW WAVE—KNOWN AS THE j RINGLING KOOLERWAVE—A UNIQUE PERMANENT— NOBURNS—o—NO PULLS GUARANTEED PERMANENTS_$2.50 to $10.60 j Get your permanent now before prices advance. -. j Skyland - Ideal Beauty Shop j MISS MAMIE MILLER, Owner-Manager Over Witherows Store—Galax, Va. S' Final Clean-Up Of Summer Merchandise Men, Here’s Your Last Chance To Buy Your NEW SUIT Values to $16.50 - - for 18.00 to $12.00 Slashed Reductions On All Summer Dresses Final Sale Of - - Summer Bags 25c & 50c ONE LOT OF BOYS’— Sport Pants & Shirts To Match Greatly Reduced! 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