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VOL 68 STATESVILLE THURSDAY OCTOBER 16 1941 JAPAN UNABLE 10 SHORTAGE IN a RAINALL 7 INCHES in HIRER EXPECTS SURRENDER SOON Barringer reads his Death Results rom Heart Attack Body Will Be Brought Here But uneral Will Be In Salisbury Mr George isher of Statesville and Salisbury died this morning at one at the home of his daught er in He suffered a heart attack Tuesday night about 10 and passed away three hours later He was 64 years of age Mr isher has held the position of postal clerk in the Salisbury post of fice for many years and was planning to retire in the near future He spent the week ends at the home in States ville SPECIAL TERM COURT IS SOUGHT Battle or Moscow Believed To Have Reached A Crisis NATION DECLARED AT CROSS ROADS Washington Oct 16 Well informed house sources reported today in creasing signs that Republicans were slowly abandoning their opposition to President Roosevelt's foreign policies and were voting in surprising num bers to permit arming of United States merchant ships They predicted that the final roll call probably tomorrow on a resolu tion to a repeal the neutrality act prohibition to begin putting guns on cargo vessels would show more Re publicans voting for the measure than Deficiency or Last 90 Days About Three Inches Ambassador May Be One To Hand Over Moscow and noticing there how we Each Defendant Will Be Required To Give $500 Bond London Oct 16 The battle west of Moscow probably has reached a crisis now authorized sources said today but it was not thought by these sources that the Germans made any great gains in the last 24 hours Berlin reports Hitler is expect ing an announce from Moscow the implica tion being that Moscow would be declared an open city and surrendered Roxboro Oct 16 A Superior court grand jury indicted 10 men here to day on a misdemeanor charge in connection with the attempted lynch ing of a negro in Person county jail in Roxboro August 15 The negro was charged with raping white woman Judge Grady issued capias for ar rests and bond was set at $500 for each He said he would ask for a special term of court for next month The men named were Coy Harris I Holt Willie Aiken Johnnie Holt Leb Dixon William Green Bradsher Thomas Slaughter A Spriggs and Evon James They ar? charged with unlawful as sembly for unlawful purpose in at tempting to take Cy Winstead negro from the jail and breaking windows and doors at the court house which the jail is situated Ten Men Indicted or Attempted Lynching Of Negro In Person Washington Oct Early re lease of Grover Bergdoll draft dodger from United States army disciplinary barracks at Leavenworth was in dicated today by a request for dis missal of a 22 year old indictment against him and others The justice department announced Attorney Gleason aT Philadelph ia had been instructed to ask dismis sal of the old indictment returned be tween 1918 and 1920 under the 1917 selective service act It was learned the existence of the old charge came to the attention of the attorney general by a letter from a high war official stating Bergdoll had asked for parole and inquiring if any charges Are still pending against him The official explained if any charges are pending the army could not grant release ORDERS SPEEDY PUBLIC TRIAL Vichy Unoccupied rance Oct 16 Marshall Petain ordered speedy public trial for five men accused of leading rance to defeat against Ger many including former Premiers Leon Blum and Edouard Daladier and the one time allied Generalissimo Mau rice Gustav Gamelin on any recent foreign policy legisla tion This shift in sentiment was report ed as the house met an hour earlier than usual to start debate on the simple repealer MISS VISTA JOHNSON ILL Miss Vista Johnson who has been seriously ill at the Davis Hospital is improving and expects to be able to be removed to her home on East Broad Street Extension within a few days Miss Johnson was a student at Appalachian State Teachers College Boone Germans Taken rom Radio Supply Ship Held Without Bail Boston Oct The United States held without bail the 20 man crew and a woman of the seized Norwegian fishing vessel Bueco described as a supply ship for a now disposed of German radio station in Greenland NEWCOMERS TO STATESVILLE Mr and Mrs A Weaver and daughter Barbara Ann formerly of Concord are newcomers to Statesville and after tomorrow will be at home in one of the Greenbrier apatments on Davie avenue Mr Weaver is manager of the Larkin Credit Store and has already assumed his duties Mrs Weaver and the little girl will come to Statesville Thursday from Concord The Japanese cabinet resigned to day in disagreement over issues of empire as Japan stood apparently at the cross roads weighing peace against a possible open break with' the United States or war in soviet Siberia Her choice seemed linked closely with developments in the war of thewest where half ringed Moscow had come to its hour of peril with the me chanized assault forces of axis ally Germany reported only 62 miles from the soviet capital their onrush still unstemmed Authoritative sources in British and Russian guarded Iran said the soviet government and foreign diplo matic missions had completed ar rangements to move 450 miles east of Moscow to provincial city of Kazan if Moscow could not be saved The Japanese embassy already had juit Moscow for an undisclosed desti nation reportedly at the advice of the Russian government The resignation of Premier Prince cabinet came out of a welter of high government conferences just three months after his previous gov ernment fell The exact issues of their disagree ment were not disclosed but it was known they were not in accord on the relation with the United States or its course toward Russia The successes of German arms in European Russia are understood to have played a prominent part in the Japanese government discussions too with the strong military faction watching intently for an hour of weakness in which Japan might strike an effective blow for the axis from the east A Japanese naval officer Captain trade director of naval intelligence said Japanese United States rela tions are at a cross roads and might lead to war He said a crisis faced Japan through steady tightening of encirclements of her islands In Shanghai a German report from Hanoi rench Indo China said the Japanese were massing forces in north Indo China "presumably for ac tion against China Such a drive would be At the Burma road a supply route" A report from Peiping China said the Japanese were mobilizing all able bodied white Russians between 17 and 40 years of age throughout north China for six months of compulsory military training supposedly to serve in a possible Japanese soviet war Barringers Will Have 15 Night Blooming lowers Opening Arrests Ordered AGREE ON COURSE TOIAKINWAR Relations With Believed One Of Issues Windsor Oct 16 Bertie county yesterday voted for county wide li quor stores by a majority of 27 com plete but unofficial returns showed last night The vote was: or the ABC system 1234 against 1207 The question was whether the liquor store here established by special leg islative act in 1937 should be abolisn ed or the control system should be extended to the entire county The county will now come under the general statute permitting county option on the liquor question vote tied the score be tween the wets and drys in the cur rent series of referendums The wets have also won in Warren county which voted to retain the control system and the drys have won in Johnston and ranklincounties which voted to abolish liquor stores RUSSIA STILL DETERMINED Moscow Oct 16 Despite a deteri oration of the Russian defenses west of Moscow Russian dispatches declar ed they had not been and could not be broken Germany now is exerting her fullest offensive power The official communique announc ing the defenders to fight the enemy along the whole saM action was particularly intense in the western direction: The locale where the deterioration was reported for the night of Oct 14 15 Mrs Deal of Danville Va is "spending a while here at her home on Euclid avenue Mrs Deal spent the month of September in Oxford with her daughter Mrs Richard Har riS Mr Daily like all good Statcsvillians imiuluu were all mirating over a night bloom ing cereus that Miss Sadie "Ostwalt brought us he phoned in to say that tonight the Barringers are going to have 15 night blooming cereus open ing up at their place on West End ayenue time from 9 to mid night we can all come look and smelt Being an unselfish lot down here at this shop we pass on the flowery news and maybe all be seeing you sometime between 9 and midnight George isher Dies In Salisbury Berlin Oct 16 The German of fensive is smashing to out er defense line about 60 miles from the capital headquarters de clared late today? and authorized spokesmen said a special announce ment regarding Moscow could be ex pected soon Questioners at the daily foreign press conference onthe situation of the Russian government were met wth reference to the in prospect which it was said would answer those ques tion Some one asked about American Ambassador Steinhardt the other day The spokesman recalled Am erican diplomats have had to suffer the experience of surrendering cities that did not belong to them" referr ing to the part William Bullitt former ambassador to Paris played in the surrender oCParis to the Ger mans as an open city THE ARMY READY TO GRANT RELEASE REPUBLICANS ARE CHANGING RONT ON ARMING SHIPS Since July 15 a total of 1328 inches of rain has fallen in Statesville ac cording to records at the Piedmont Experiment Station and this is just about three inches less than the aver age rainfall in this section for the period from mid July to mid October The average for the period was brought up by rains the latter part of July An inquiry at the station this morning about drought conditions re sulted in the following figures: Dur ing the last half of July 1026 inches of rain fell There was very much less in August 288 inches and still less in September 104 inches Dur ing the first fifteen days of this month 10 100ths inches of rain has fallen' The average rainfall in this section for the three months from mid July to mid October over the past twelve years was 1627 inches so this shortage is 299 The average rainfall for the first nine months of the year during the last dozen years was 3978 inches This year 3246 inches of rain fell during that period making a short age of 732 inches so far this year Bertie Stays Wet By Majority Of 27 LOCALCHAMBER PLANS CAMPAIGN TO AID MITCHELL Community Asked To Show Appreciation To College PRESIDENT BRADY NAMES COMMITTEE A Community Appreciation cam paign for Mitchell College sponsored by the Statesville Chamber of Com merce was launched Wednesday af ternoon at a meeting of city and county officials and civic club rep resentatives The meeting was held in the Chamber of Commerce rooms An executive committee with President James A Brady of? the Statesville Chamber of Commerce as chairman was named to complete plans for the campaign which is to get under way at an early date The campaign as already stated is a Community Appreciation capaign to be put on in appreciation of the valued service the educational institu tion is rendering to Statesville and the entire community The goal has not yet been set and date of the actual opening of the campaign is still to be announced but these announce ments will be made during the next several days In addition to President Brady of the Statesville Chamber of Commerce the executive committee of Community Appreciation campaign is composed of Mrs Gaither pres ident of the Club Miss Mir iam Wooten president of the Busi ness and Professional Club Mayor Wesley Jones Rev Robert Bird president of the Statesville Ministerial Association President Lynn Casler Junior Chamber of Com merce President Churchill Statesville Merchants Association President Kivett Rotary club President A Leonard KiWfcnis club President James Meacham club Superintendent Weaver of the city schools Superin tendent Ward Guy Iredell county schools County Manager Lonnie Mills and Mrs Giqe vRamsay and Mr A KeamZ Premn'' represent ing Mitchell College RUSSIANSHT CITY ODESSA Rumanian Troops Re ported To Have Taken City Bucharest Oct 16 The besieged Russian port of Odessa is being de stroyed by flames within defense lines manned by every man woman and child able to bear arms Ruman ian military dispatches said They said flames hundreds of feet high could be seen for miles lighting scenes of confusion and ruin The Rumanians said the city's main defenses had been breached three su burbs had fallen and axis troops were within six to 10 miles of the western and northern limits Berlin Oct 16 The Rumanian government announced tonight that Rumanian forces had entered the long beseiged Russian Black sea port of Odessa DNB reported in a Buchar est dispatch The anonuncement by Vice Premier Antonescue acting premier while his uncle General Ion Antonescue is in command of armies at the front said fighting was spread ing tonight throughout the streets of the port GURNEY ILES COMPLAINT Washington Oct Senator Gurney Republican South Dakota asked the war department today to investigate a new complaint against the army shake up of national guard officers previously protested in a telegram from Senator Clark Demo crat Missouri to Lieutenant General Ben Lear BEST METHOD PROTECTING THEM Washington Oct 15 Secretary Knox said today the navy was ready to put guns and gun crews on mer chant ships as fast as the ships come to us once congress authorizes the action Knox spoke as parlimentary right of way was given legislation lifting the ban against arming the ships we ire satisfied now we can get guns to arm the Knor said 'pie said while there are not enough guns on hand to am all ships at once guns will be avail able as rapidly as ships come to port to get them lie said also arming of the merch ant men is a highly effective method of protecting them from raiders in the air and sea Miss Edith Cranor of Los Angeles is visiting her sister Mrs Mc Elwee Body North Carolina Contractorls ound By Baltimore Reporter Mount Olive Man Browning Slain by Alexandria High School Boy ROBBERY SEEN AS THE MOTIVE Baltimore Oct 16 Edward ree man reporter for the Baltimore News Post today found the body of Browming 40 year old Mt Olive contractor said to have been slain by an Alexandria Va high school boy reeman told his paper he found the body five or six miles south of Conowingo in the region where police had been told the body would be found Alexander Gifford of the News Post said he talked by phone with Herbert Cox Jr 16 who Portland Me police said admitted shooting Browming Gifford said he refreshed the memory with landmarks and so ar rived at what he believed was the point where the body was disposed of The face was covered with blood particularly around the right eye The pockets of his suit badly torn were inside out both shoes were off NEW1RE TRUCK PASSES ITS TEST Has Double ire ight ing Capacity Of Old Truck Chief Gaitherofthe States ville ire department has received official information from the Nation al Board of ire Underwriters to the effect that the new 500 gallon pump ing engine recently purchased jointly by the city and county has been ac cepted by the National ire Under writers after a 12 hour test The new fire truck is expected to arrive in Statesville in a few days It will replace the 200 gallon pumping engine which has been in use for eight years The new truck will have more than double the fire fighting capacity of the old truck Neely Kincaid Injured While On ishing Trip Mr Neely Kincaid is back at home this week from the Long hospital where he was under treat ment for an injury to his head Mr iniurv was the result ofa rather unusual accident With a group of friends he had gone on a brief fishing trip in astern Carolina and when helping to remove groceries to er from the boat he tripped on the rope that tied the boat to the pier and fell sriking his head against some metal object about the boat The injury about the left eye was painful and has required a period of treatment and relaxation Mr Kin caid is much improved now however is at home and expects to be able to be out in a day or so THE DISCUSSIONS ARE KEPT SECRET Tokyo Oct 15 pessimism concerning the relations with the United States were published today as leaders continued a series of conferences The Privy Council met in the pres ence of Emperor Hirihoto Later the Lord Privy Seal consulted with Pre mier Konoye and the head of the cabinet planning board Secrecy was maintained on subjects discussed Both Domei and the paper Ashai put forth gloomy views of the Japan ese and American situation Harriman Coming Home To Report Too Little Too Late (By The Associated Press) London Oct Harri man who headed United States delegation to Moscow to arrange aid for Russia left Britain by air today for the United States to report to President Roosevelt The air ministry announced today British bombers made raids' on West Germany and Coastal rance last night Three bombers were reported missing REV1AMESWALKER HEARD AT ST Soldiers Of Sermon Theme Interest in the Teaching Preaching Mission being conducted at St Lutheran church continues to grow Another very splendid service was held Wednesday night when Rev James Walker of Rockwell delivered the sermon on the subject Soldiers of Also at this ser vice Miss Yates Bible Teacher in the city schools spoke to tae congrega tion on the importance of the Bible in the warfare of the soul She pointed out that the chief weapon of the Christian in warfare was the of the Spirit which is the Word of ana that every Chris tian should have promises of Holy Word to aid them at all times 7 The choir sang as a special number Soul be on thy by George Heath The questions which were pre sented during the discussion period were as follows: (a) Should not the protect me from evils ills hatred persecution (b) Is there any virtue in suffering? (c) If God loved me would He not make my life easier? Mr Walker selected two passages of scripture for consideration They were from the writings of St Paul and read as follows a man sows that shall he also Gala tains 6:7 and therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus 2 Timothy 2:3 The minister pointed out the need for loyalty and courageous strength to live gloriously meeting the trials of life conquering power The Christian life is enlisting in army and army life toughens men to endure hardship Today as well as any time Christ needs men who take for following Him is not easy Tonight the message will be deliv ered by Rev Walter Nau of St Lutheran church China Grove His subject will be Things and will be based upon the Scripture ye first the Kingdom of God and his Members of the Boy Scout Troop 4 which is sponsored by St John's Brotherhood will attend the service in a body tonight being the regu lar time for their meeting Persons living in the neighborhood of St have been given a special invitation to worship at this church 15850 Tons Of Defense Rubber Is Destroyed By ire Washington Oct 14 Jesse Jones federal loan administrator announced yesterday that 15850 tons of govern ment owned crude rubber were lost in the fire at a irestone Rubber company plant in all River Mass An additional 2000 tons of govern ment rubber stored at the plant was not damaged The rubber was fully insured Jones said the rubber at all River was part of a government stock of 155214 tons in storage throughout the country An additional 135323 tons were en route from the far east and 145664 tons more were waiting to be shipped to the Rubber Reserve company the government corpora tion which owns the rubber SEN PEPPER SAYS LICK JAPAN AND THEN SMASH HITLER Washington Oct 16 Senator Pep per Democrat of lorida counselled the United States to prepare for "cer tain conflict "with Hitler immobiliz ing the Japanese navy and by sweep ing the seas clear of Japanese Ger man Italian and rench fleets is just as certain that we are going to have to fight Hitler as it i the United States and Great Britain are going to continue to exist" Pep per said and Hitler are going to be the eventual onees between whom the struggle will be Latin American Nations Will Get Aid rom US Washington Oct 16 Latin Amer ican nations will get approximately $150 million in aid for construction of defense and other military purposes authorized quarters said if Congress approves the pending lease lend bilL No27: GERMANS PICTURE 7 RUSSIAN DEENSE LINE AS REELING Dive Bombers Tanks Infantry Hitting urious Blows BOTH RED LANKS ARE ALLING BACK The German high command pic tured the entire Russian defense line as reeling from the fury of two weeks of intensified assault with dive bomb ers tanks and masses of infantry It declared Kalinin 95 miles north west of Moscow and Kaluga 92 miles southwest of the capital were in Ger man hands These apparently were flanking forward points of the semi circle of steel being closed on Mos cow The German statement that nazi troops were 62 miles from Moscow referred apparently to sectors west of the city where fighting had been re ported along the road near 70 miles and Mozhaisk 60 miles away Authoritative London sources de dared the big battle now has reached its crises but said although very heavy fighting continued it would not appear the Germans made any very big advance during the last 24 hours ar to the south the Rumanian army announced its forces had broken defense lines of Odessa and the Blacks sea port was in flames The Ruman ians and Germans have been before Odessa since August 19 The frank admission by the Rusf sians their capital was in peril was sharpened by an announcement by the Japanese foreign office in Tokyo that the Russian foreign office ad vised the Japanese embassy staff in Moscow to withdraw Behind the front the Germans still experienced difficulties reported from Prague that authrities there bad ordered con fiscation of radio receiving sets of all Residents of two districts of that city The reports said the action was caused by spread of a campaign and anti reich activity ob viously due to listening to "foreign sr Miss Mildred Ingram Wins Blue Ribbon At The State air Miss Mildred Ingram' of Iredell county who won a blue ribbon at the State fair in Raleigh for window treatment display is a member of the Scotts 4 club Miss Ingram has a room improvement project in which she has worked out an attractive plan of decoration The wall paper pattern is in peach and blue Window curtains are of white block dimity" trimmed with tiny blue rick rack braid A peach colored bedspread is used loors and furniture are fin ished in light oak The color scheme for the decoration of the room was Miss own idea She decided to use as color combination in her de corative scheme the colors reflected in a diamond The exhibit at the State air was a chart of the room with details of the decoration worked out and exhibited on window frames Miss Ingram is an outstanding 4 club member She has taken an active part in her own local club programs attended the 4 club cahip this year and the Wildlife conservation camp the past two years Club Will Have Dinner Meeting With Mr Ralph Shuford The Club of Broad Street Methodist church will have a dinner meeting riday night at the Shuford Milstead farm three miles out on the road The Club will meet at the church at 6:45 riday evening and go from there to the farm home where supper will be sejyed at 7 The dinner committee is com posed of Messrs Ralph Shuford and Bryan Powell The program for the evening be in charge of Mr Bunch Jr All men of the church are invited Grand Jury Calls In More Witnesses Roxboro Oct 15 A Person county grand jury investigating an attempt ed lynching August 15 called more witnesses as it continued its secret probe Judge Grady of New Bern who ordered the leaders to be brought to trial said he urged jurors not to stop investigation until they could report definitely iii wn in British Destroyer Is Declared Sunk Berlin Oct A German zubma rine operating in the Strait of Gibral tar sank a British destroyer vaster day the high command reported today.