Our Mountain Horn CATS TO PLAY NATIONAL STRIKE ON RAILROAD TO BE POSTPONED FOR 60 DAYS INVESTIGATION Go. Friday and Saturday Specials 5-PIECE SOFA 1. Beautiful sofa bed (wine or blue) 2. Rocking chair to harmonize 3. End table 10-PIECE BED 1.
Round mirror vanity 2. Chest of drawers 3. Full size bed 4. Steel slat coil spring 5- 50'Ib. mattress 6.
Pillow 7. Pillow 8. Window shade 9. Window shade OTHER $69.50 $79.50 $89.50 EASY WEEKLY 4. End table 5.
Table lamp EASY WEEKLY Steel Porch Chairs. Steel Porch Rockers' Chocie Of ROOM OUTFIT $3.99 DOWN 10. Table lamp SUITES $4.00 Down $5 00 Down $6.00 Down PAYMENTS PAYMENTS (50 KITCHEN CABINETS Choice of white with red or black trim or green and ivory DOUBLE MIRROR DOOR CHIFFAROBE Whh Two Locks Walnut Finish $18.95 $1.00 Down MM AND WEDNESDAY, MAT 21, 1941. Walter Baker is home from the Uni versity of Alabama to spend the sum mer. Dr.
and Mrs. Eldred B. Teague have os their guest, H. Weslie Schofield of Philadelphia. Barbara Ann Murphy is recovering from an attack of measles at her home on Garey avenue.
Mrs. R. T. Respess of Mobile is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J.
C. Scott, and family on East street. Mrs. O. B.
Riley of Bayton, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Sam Horn and Mrs. B. F.
Cogbum, on North street Mrs. W. A. Hare is resting "nicely at St Vincent's hospital in Birmingham, following operation Monday morn ing. William Weaver of the Baptist seminary, Louisville, is spending a while with his parents, Mr Mrs.
W. K. Weaver. Howard and Hardy Conner, students at the university, are home to spend the summer with their parents, Mr. and.
Mrs; J. D. Conner. Mrs. C.
E. Meeks aad son, Charles Bertram, of Miami, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John C. In gram, and othe relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. John I. Tubbg and Stan and Billy Biggs visited in Marion, Ala, over the week end. Mrs.
E. H. Tubbs returned with them for a visit here. Mrs. Fred Morton and children of Ripley, are visiting Mrs.
Morton's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Phillips, and other relatives here.
Miss Miriam Williams is home from the University of Alabama to spend the summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Williams, on North street WOOD-CRAWFORD The marriage of Sara Henderson Wood, of Lincoln, to Lieutenant Donald Drayton Crawford, of Morganton, May 12; was announced by Mr.
and Mrs. Larry Dewitt Stxiplin, of Selma, sister and brother-in-law of the bride. The couple were married in the study of Dr. W. Maxwell, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Sheffield-The bride was attired in a dress of navy sheer net, with a fitted full-length white coat and white gauntlets.
Her hat Was a full-finish white straw, with blue and white tailored veil She wore a corsage of sweet peas and lilies of the valley. Lieut Crawford is at present com manding officer of the CCC camp at Wilson Dam, near The couple announced that they would be at home to friends, weekends, in Lincoln PROPELLOR PLANT WELL BE OPENED DETROIT, May 20. Nash-Kelvinator Corporation announced Monday that it would undertake immediately the manufacture of airplane propellers and propellor hubs for both vthe U. S. Army and Navy Air Corps.
The corporation said the airplane parts would be manufactured at Lansing, where the government's defense plant corporation has acquired a unit of the Reo Motor Car Company for this purpose. When the plant is in full operation, the corporation said, it will employ between 2,000 and 3,000 workers, most of them skilled mechanics. The propellor assemblies, known as Hamilton standard propellors, are for large planes. Nash-Kelvinator will manufacture them under license from United Aircraft Corporation. PERMANENT PAINTING JOB SACRAMENTO, May (INS) It takes five years to repaint the huge San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and then painters start all over again.
According to the state de partment of public works there are 15,000,000 square feet of steel surface to be maintained, taking about 36,000 gallons of paint A crew of 44 workmen are employed steadily to keep the structure looking clean and fresh. MEMPHIS SITE URGED MEMPHIS, May 20. Lieut Gen. Ben Lear, commanding the Second Army with headquarters here, has recommended Memphis as the base for the new Second Army Air Detachment, it was announced Monday. The detachment, now being activated at Atlanta, will have about 17 officers, 17 planes, and 250 men.
Bir mingham had been considered as a possible site. HITLER FELICITATES CUBAN BERLIN, May 20. Adolf Hitler has telegraphed to the Cuban president felicitations on the occasion of Cuban Independence Day, it was officially announced Tuesday. The text of the message was not revealed. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY Team From Buford, Will Be Bemistons Toughest Foe This Season MOORE NAMED PITCHER FOR THE OPENING GAME Bemiston'e hard -(hitting baseball club, that has found little trouble in brushing aside its 'last six opponents, will meet a real test Friday night when it tangles with the National Semi-Pro champions from Buford, Georgia.
The Buford club comes here for games at Roberts Field Thursday and Friday nights. Saturday the Cats will go to Buford for a third game. Talladega fans who have seen the Buford club perform here for the past several years know the, brand of baseball to expect when the Georgians meet the local team. Bemiston's showing so far this season indicates that the champions will probably have a real tussle on their hands this year. The success of the Bemiston team this season has been largely due to the power they have shown at the plate.
Their only two losses came arly in the year before the players had hit their batting stride. In the last four games, the Cats have acquired exactly 63 hits, an average of almost' 18 per game. Dave Long. Persons, and McCarty have led the Cat batting attack so far this season. The sluggers have also been aided by very effective pitching ora the part of Moore, Parsons and Gann.
Manager Dave Long plans to sent Moore to the mound for the game Thursday night Either Gann or Par sons will be assigned the pitching chores Friday evening. 'GRANDMA' ACTIVE AT 78 SILSBE, Tex, May 20. (INS) "Grandma" Evans has her own way of celebrating birthdays; one she likes much better than the conventional ice-cream-and-cake-party affairs. Recent ly on her 78th birthday, she awoke early, drove 96 miles to the Gulf of Mexico, and spent the day fishing, along with hw son, Gilford, and her grandson, Jack. OF ORDNANCE PROJECT Construction Co'Ordinator Is To Live Here While Working Lt.
Col. Albert J. Bain has been added to the staff of the Anniston Ordnance Depot, officials announced Monday. He is planning to live in Talladega while in this section. CoL Bain will be constuction coordinator for the project He comes here from the Quartermaster's office in Washington, D.
C. The coordinator is a native of Chi' cago, 111. NAZIS TO FREE 100,000 PRISONERS, VICHY SAYS VICHY, France, May 20. Germany has agreed to return immediately ap- proximately 100,000 French prisoners of was as one of the first results of Ger man-French negotiations, the French announced officially Monday. A communicque containing the an neuncement said "French negotiations are proceeding favorably" and declared the "first result" wouldu be the re- turn of all Frenvh noncommissioned officars and soldiers now held prison ers who fought in the World War.
These were estimated Unofficiallq at 100,000. A methodical plan for returning this group is being studied, the communi que said. In all there are 1800,000 French prisoners in German hands. NEW CORNELL PROFESSORS ITHACA, N. May 20.
(INS) Dr. Cornelius Willem De Kiewiet, native Hollander who has been Professor of History at Iowa University since 1929, has been chosen Professor "of History at Cornell University. Dr. Raymond W. Ager, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Uni versity of California, has been appoint ed associate professor of engineering at Cornell.
Emergency Board Be Named To Study Conditions In Dispute DISTURBANCE WOULD TIE UP DEFENSE WORK Dispatches from Atlanta revealed Friday that the strike scheduled on the A. B. C. railroad was held in abeyance for at least 60 days by a presidential proclamation late Thurs- day creating an emergency investiga-. tion board.
the strike had materialized it' would have affected one train crew of six men ini Talladega, R. A. Caldwell, special representative of traffic and transportation, said. Plans had already been made here Thursday to divert all freight already- enroute for movement via the AB to other mites when Mr. Caldwell received a telegram that the strike had been postponed Members of the board will proceed under the Railway Mediation Board procedure which effectively holds the situation in status quo for 60 days 30 days in which to investigate aad another 30 days in which to report In Washington the board said employes of the 640-mile line operating in Georgia and Alabama had agreed to the proposal.
The threatened strike, it was reported, would have tied up vitally-needed shipments of materials for the powder plant being built near Childers-burg and the bag loading plant North of Talladega on which construction is expected to start in the immediate future. TO. ATTEND CLINIC SOON Boys And Girls Be Brought To Health Office In School Bus A Crippled Children's Clinic will be held at the health office in. Talladega Wednesday, May 28, at 8 a. health officials announced Tuesday.
Everyone is urged to help the health officials to contact all children both white and colored who have never attended a clinic for diagnosis. All these who have not previously registered at the clinic must preset a card signed by the family physician-This card may be obtained from the health office. Children who have been to the clinic in the past will be notified if it is necessary fo them to attend this clinic. The school bus will bring in the children from the lower part of the county. The bus will leave Talladega at 6 a.
m. to pick up children at designated points. The schedule reads: Bryant's store below Winterboro on new Cbilders-burg road, 6:30 a. Chiidersburg school at 7 a. m-; Sylacauga at the Welfare office in the city hall at 7:30 a.
and Sycamore at a filling station on the Sylacauga-Talladega highway at 8 a. m. i AUTHORITY ASKED FOR WIRE MERGER WASHINGTON, May Fly chairman of the Federal Coram un-icaions Commission, urged Monday that Congress authorize a merger of the Western Union and Postal Telegraph Companies to prevent the possibility of the industry's "total disappearance as an independent entity." "It is perfectly conceivable," F'y testified before a Senate committee investigating the telegraph industry, "that the next prolonged or pronounced recession in the general business level will drive both companies to the wall and I don't mean just financial I mean discontinuance of service. "Competition and other factors have driven the two major telegraph carriers to the point where their rT existence is in jeopardy; defense, the interests of and other considerations maj i undesirable that we should permit either to be forced to the wall. "The most promising alternative is a merger, with suitable legislative safeguards." BED OUTFIT PAYMENTS Colors DISHES FREE $2.00 Down PAYMENTS West Battle Street Little Damage Caused By Blaze At Station Little damage was caused by a fire which broke out in the Southern rail road station on East street at 4 Monday, A.
W. Clements, agent, an nounced Tuesday. "Workmen were burning some pair.it off the side of the building with a blow torch and the flames apparently ran up the side of the building," Fire Chief Jim Hicks said. Railroad company officials plan to continue with the work of repainting the station. AAA CHECKS THIS WEEK Various Meeting Places Are Designated In The Schedule Over 800 Triple-A checks amounting to $18,77358 will be delivered to farmers in Talladega County on Wednes day and Thursday at various meeting places to be designated, Woodrow W.
Holmes, assistant at the county agent's office, announced Tuesday. In the past weeks checks amounting to $102,958.41 have been delivered to farmers in Talladega County. Only those who have received notice by letter that payment will be made can receive the checks oni the specific days, he pointed out. The schedule for deliverying checks on Wednesday reads: Beat 17, Idalia school at 8:15 a. Beat 1, Lincoln school at 9:15 a.
Beat 2, Easta-boga at Pace's store at 10 a. m-; Beats 3 and 18, Munford at Carter's store at 10:45 a. nx, and Beat 4, at Ironaton church at 12:30 p. m. Thursday's schedule is: Beats 9 and 13, Winterboro at Rhodes' store at 8:30 e.
Beat II, at Sylacauga high school at 9:15 a. m-; Beat 10, Fayette-ville at 11 a. Beat 12 at Childers-burg school at 1:30 p. Beat 8 at Wanders at 2 p. Beat 6 at Planters- ville at 2:45 j.
Beat 7 at Ren-froe in Jones' store at 3:30 p. m. Checks for Beats 5 and 16 are to be delivered at the county agent's office. After being closed for nearly 40 years, the first "tube" railway station in the world, in King William Street, London now is being used as an air' raid shelter. $3M DOWN 32 PIECE SET OF $3150.
EASY WEEKLY ON POST OFFICE NEEDS Engineer To Inspect Demands For Improvements On Building Within a few days now a survey of the needs for alterations and improvements of the federal building in Talladega will get under way, Postmaster, Dexter E. Parks, announced Saturday. He pointed out a great demand for more boxes, loading plaforms for the mails and many additional things essential for efficiency would be brought to the attentions of the investigators from Washington. The inspectors have been scheduled to come to Talladega for several weeks now but they have been delayed. Annual inspection of the rural mail routes in Talladega county is being made this week by Postmaster Parks.
This tour is made to check on the number of box and individual mail receivers there are on the rural routes. Eleven pupils at Northside school purchased Defense Saving stamps at the post office Friday. These children were iru the second grade class taught by Miss Katherine Caley. A class of third grade children bought several stamps Thursday. FARMERS WARNED AGAINST SCREW WORM INFESTATION Farmers are warned to be on the outlook for screw worms which will become more prevalent in hot weather and are advised to use oil of tar around any livestock wounds.
W. E. Sewell, animal husbandman, Auburn, urges farmers to castrate pigs, where necessary, before the weather turns warmer and to put the tar preparation around the cuts. SALVADOR COMMANDANT SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, May 17. Lieutenant Col.
Robert L. Christian, of the United States Army, became commandant of the Salvador Military Academy Friday under a two-year contract. TO RELIEVE MISERY OF COLDS L'luid Tablets, Salt Nose DrP8' Coufh Drops Try "Bub-My-Tism" Wonderful Liniment EASY WEEKLY West Battle Street BIG DEFENSE PART Work Of Skilled Medical Men Is Essential To Army Building MONTGOMERY, May 16. The physician is playing and will to play a key role in the national defense program, particularly through his assistance in the operation of the Selective Service law, Dr. N.
Baker, -state health officer, declared today. "It is difficult for the average citizen to visualize and appreciate what an indispensable cog the trained physician is in the machinery of any national defense program," he said. "Its starting point and backbone is manpower sturdy males who are 'physically tough, mentally sound and morally The military arm of-such a program wants just this kind and can ill afford to accept any other sort. As a high-ranking medical officer of wants no speckled With equal force, the same holds true in the industries acd munitions plants. No 6ne other than the trained physician can perform this culling task.
Consequently, in the initial offing of the selectiveservice machinery, the key of the local draft board, of the appeal board, of the advisory board and of the induction board is theJtfiysiciarj." Dr. Baker added that a letter recently received from Brigadier General Ben M. Smith, state director of the Selective Service System, expressed the military officials' appreciation of the part played by Alabama's doctors in the national defense program. REJECTED DRAFTEE IS TWICE HONORED RADFORD, Va, May for induction into the Army, Harold Do to received a traveling bag and other gifts at farewell parties given by fellow office employes of the plant where he worked. Two days later he was back at work the Army found he as underweight.
The office force was glad to have Do to back and entertained again in his honor at a homecoming party. CHICAGO HEAT KILLS TWO CHICAGO, May 17. Two deaths were attributed to the 86-degree heat in Chicago Thursday, the reading being only 2.6 degrees short of the record for this date and the highest of the year. Poppy Day To Be Held Here This Saturday POPPY DAY TO BE HED tag Plans for the observance of Poppy Day Saturday in Talladega are being completed now by the Edward R-Wren unit of the American Legion Auxiliary, it was announced Tuesday. The poppies which the Auxiliary will distribute here have been made by disabled veterans at the Veterans' Hospital in Tuscaloosa.
All Poppy Day workers wjU serve as volunteers, and all money coratrib-uted to them will go into the welfare funds of the Auxiliary to be used in caring for' the disabled soldiers. MARKET TO BE SIDED System In Tuscaloosa To Be Surveyed By Group From Here Five representatives who are working on plans for establishing curb markets in Talladega and Sylacauga will go to Tuscaloosa Saturday to study the organization of the curb market there, County Agent O. V. Hill announced Tuesday. Miss Harriet Plowden, home demonstration agent, M.
A. Hurston, councilman from Sylacauga, B. N. Ivey, FSA official, O. V.
Hill, farm agent, and Hugh McElderry, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, are to study the marketing system in Tuscaloosa. If plans are completed, the market here will be ready for use June 1, Mr. Hill said. Although several locations are under inspection a definite site has not yet been decided upon. The market would open twice a week at least, he NEW SUB'S KEEL LAID GROTON, May 16.
The Electric Boat Company Thursday laid the keel for the U. S. Navy submarine Amberpack, twenty-ninth ship in the expanded building program which began in 1933. Seven other submarines are under construction at the' shipyard, and the company has contracts for 33 more- Two other submersibles are being prepared for acceptance tests, with one, the Grampus, starting trials Friday..
