Pulaski Southwest Times (Newspaper) - August 4, 1941, Pulaski, Virginia TODAYS THOUGHT They lost from and woiks do follow Revolutions THE SOUTHWEST Ti Your Evening Newspaper Considered A Member Of 98 Per Cent Of The Homes In This Section WEATHER VIRGINIA Generally fair and continued warm tonight i VOLUME 140 News AUGUST 1941 fiy Carrier Boy Within City 16o Per Week SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS BREAKING GERMAN BULLETINS MANY REJECTED Mills NeaH state selective service reported that of the men reporting to induction stations in Virginia from last October through July or approximately 21 per cent were 1 UP banking had arranged to start hear ings on administrations sweeping price control today postponed the public ses sion until tomorrow because of the inability of Price tor Leon first to HULL RETURNS M Hull returned today to the state department and report ed himself fully recovered from a minor illness that had kept him from his office for HITS ARE CLAIMED Square hits on two British de in an attack by German u and Italian off Mat on the North African was reported by the high com mand It claimed a total of seven British warplanes four fighters in the tack and three British bombers in RiAF raids on Western and Northwestern Germany last TROOPS ARRIVING UP Jap anest troops were reported today continuing to arrive increas ing numbers at Japans port of entry for where Japanese forces along the Russian border have been report ed strongly The new said include nu merous cavalry were be to have been sent directly from State Police Battle Union In Pennsylvania To Help In Delivery Of Supplies UP Vio lence flared today in a old timber haulers strike as lum ber operators attempted to re sume deliveries of sorely needed mine timber to Fayette county Sheriff Merle Glessner of Somerset county reported that two men identified as OIO union ists had been arrested after a roving band of pickets smashed trucks and upset cargoes in disori near the Fayette county Organization Attacks Enliven Final Week The campaign for the Democratic nom for governor will to night with all three candidates making appeals over the Senator Gary of Hen whose attacks on the Demo cratic organization headed by United States Senator Harry F Byrd have enlivened the last few weeks of the will speak on a hookup of Virginia stations from at 8 Senator Vivian Page and former Colgate Norfolk planned to go on the air at police patrolled mountain roads today to prevent clashes between striking CIO unionists and mem bers of an independent union at tempting to lumber for Fayette countys de The first of 300 trucks headed for rolled past CIO picket lines without interference and others assembled in groups of 30 on back roads for the dash past the strikers who had warned they to pre vent all Unloading Halted One truck was halted by pick ets during the night near Addi Somerset but arrival of state police broke up attempts to unload the cargo of State motor police both in yette and Somerset counties re ported all quit the early of the day and added that patrols were being maintained on the leading to The CIO timber and workers union has been picketing the roads since June and with the supply of tim ber running low at the lum ber operators announced firmly that make deliveries to Driving the trucks were mem bers of the unaffiliated tristate lumbermen and truckers which a week ago signed a con tract the operators be carried by the state will Gary will be on the air 15 minutes and a half Darden will speak over station Vir gubernatorial enlivened the final days by verbal tilts prompted by antior assertions by State Senator Hundson reaches its tomorrow when Dem of the state make their choices for governor and 31 members oof the of Although interest lated at the last by anti organization a vote of probably less was forecast by political observers for tomorrows The predic tion of a light vote was based the apathy of the campaign as a whole and tihe absence of local contests in many The vote four years when Governor Price won the nomina was See HandPicking Both Gary and Vivian of in their fight gubernatorial have charged repeatedly that the third Colgate was the handpicked candidate by the Byrd wing of the Darden and William of South candidate for lieutenant have been identified with the Democratic orr Moss of the other candidate for lieutenant has cam extensively with and Tupk has appeared with Darden a number of times at campaign who spent much of the time during the last days of the campaign in a tour of the The WAR By DEWITT MACKENZIE The struggle the red army with the fascist says the soviet government newspaper Iz is entering a new phase of violent and decisive That seems to describe the position rather The increasing their pressure on the Russian right wing at Leningrad are contin uing their fierce attack on the center of the and at the weekend developed a heavy pincers thrust at he strategic city of Kiev in the These battles will be decisive in so far as determining whether the bolshevists can hold their pres ent the Baltic and the Black They arent at all likely to end the The time has arrived when also can agree with claim that it is already obvious that Hitlers blitzkrieg on which he staked is This is to say that the element of extreme speed has been eliminated by the remark to saddle and 4hat might easily mean a disastrous A vital element in the pres ent grim and bloody stage of the conflict lies the number and quality of the reserves available to both The millions of men who first were thrown into this great battle are worn down to the ragged edge of The Russians have reported the capture of German soldiers and Continued on Page Column 6 Gasless Night To Save Continued on X 4 Pulaski To Take Part Tomorrow In Primary The Democratic primary for a candidate for gover nor and will be held tomorrow with polls to be open sunrise to sunset it was announced today by East Pulaski voters are asked to cast their ballots at the mayors office while those in West Pulaski will go to the polls at the fire Candidates for the governor are Vivian Hunsdon Gary and Colgate while running for ernor are William Tuck and Moss Wysor stated that it is generally conceded that Dar den for governor and Tuck for will get the major portion of the votes While full ballot is not ex he it is believed that till the Democrats who usually Traffic Heavier Curfew Many Autos Stalled BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A welter of sectional in the absence of any official judg ment as to the success or failure of the eastern seaboards first gasoline curfew last appear ed today to down to these points Virtually all service stations from Maine Florida except for half of New York citys in dependents complied with Petro Coordinator Harold Ickes request to close from 7 to 7 daily as a national defense measure to conserve i The daytime sale of gasoline everywhere along the eastern sea board exceeded the total volume of August Sundays daytime Traffic Heavier Traffic was just as heavy and in many places heavier than usual during the New York chijin stations closed promptly at but about the in which per cent of the citys re mained ppen i Highways skirting Islands were gasoline service and motorists who had ventured regions regions without getting sufficient fuel had to abandon their stalled Traffic on all major high was reported about Throughout New the friendly flicker of service station neons was missing f rpm darkened and compliance with Ickes request was considered just about 100 per Cars Atp Stranded Traffic along highways leading to New England beaches and mountain resorts if heavier than Stranded cars were numerous in New Rhode Island and Connecticut and in some cases motorists hired horses to their stranded gasoline Drowning Occur Several Are Injured Pulaski and the surrounding lo experienced one of the most tragic weekends in many years Saturday night and yesterday as two persons lost their lives and at least 20 others were involved in Malcolm of was killed in an accident on the highway State Trooper who re po r ted young Moore was thrown to the pave ment by the crash and received a fractured Trooper Carter stated witnesses had been the at an ex rate of speed that he apparently lost Stanley and Charles Joseph passengers in the were Hugh Clark received cuts and bruises and was taken Pulaski hps pital after being treated at Dra and later Funeral Arranged Moore wasL rushed to Pulaski hospital by but was re ported upon Funeral services will be held tomorrow at the Pilgrims Rest church at at 2 Burial will be in the family ceme Other arrangements were Glenn of was drowned late yesterday while bathing with three com panions in Claytor lake near the Lakeshore service Re ports were that Wilsons swim ming trunks apparently shagged on a submerged wire fence in about four feet of Oldest of seven Wilson drowned before help could reach The Radford life saving crew attempted to resuscitate the who was employed on the Macgill subdivision project near and worked only four days The which was brought to Pulaski being viewed by to day was taken to Spencer for funeral rites and The youth was the son of and of Six Are Injured Six persons received painful in juries about 3 oclock yesterday afternoon in a wreck on the Rock road between Newbern and Riding in one car were Roy Anv who wps accord ing to Deputy Sheriff Wiley and and Mrs Charles Turner and Dan This with one driv en by who was by his Mary of near of received a cut on the head and Mrs also of both received severe bruises and cuts buffered frac tured arm and and Mor ris has an injured according to hospital Their con dition is not regarded by attend ants as being Deputy Sheriff Faw stated An drews car was traveling east and that of Morris was headed He reported the Andrews auto mobile traveled yards after the cars collided before it stop ped and that the drive shaft was thrown over the fence on a near said the accident re from a headon Driver Is Bailed State Trooper Carter said Jo seph of was ar rested and released on bond of on a reckless driving count as the outcome of an accident at the edge of Wythe county on a high ROYAL RED WELCOME FOR HOPKINS Harry II United States administra is greeted with smiles on his arrival at the M airport to confer with Premier Josef on United States war aid to Left to right vice commissar of foreign af fairs and official soviet spokesman Joseph who accompanied Hopkins United States military attache Ivan Yeaton Hopkins arid United States Ambassador NEA Hits Guam Extensive Damage Caused Marine Corps No Lives Lost UP A typhoon swept past the island of causing extensive damage to the United States marine post and a crop loss greater than the ty phoon of last No lives were reported Center of the typhoon was 10 miles east of where reached a velocity of 120 miles an hour and the barometer drop ped to Many Sheltered PanAmerican Airways radio at San Francisco reported the ve of the at Guam at 100 less than that at the typhoons Priests sheltered 500 persons in the parish In the low Japanese Vessel Heads For Hoine has suspended all regular di rect services with the United it was reported reliably next week is likely to invoke complete na tional mobilization to meet United States and British economic The foreign Japan Times and Advertiser said that whole sale invocation of the national economic mobilization law now is contemplated by the gov for a complete reor of the eco industrial and social coping with the crit ical situation confronting the Passage Near For Tax New British Front Is Predicted By Press tfP a Secretary Hull said today with unity of purpose and mum effort the remaining peoples of the world will and that the victims of forces of barbarism will be SAN UP Japanese lin er Tatuta Maru sailed for home today after hastily unloading Vote Is Expected Before Nightfall With Very Few Changes UP The ways and means committee decided today against making any effort to raise additional com revenue if the house should eliminate from the tax the provision requiring air married persons to file joint income tax Passage by nightfall of the tax stiffest in was the goal leaders today but dent Roosevelt appeared to have strengthened chances for elimina tion of the provision requiring all married persons file joint in come Continued on 2 Continued on Column 3V Continued on Column 4 Nosi Advance in June 29 July July 13 July 27 SOVIET t RUSSIA UKRAINE RUMANIA 8 T CONQUEST MISSES Arrows show wHere most of the experts predicted j Germans would be after six weeks of war against But the map shows how the surprising I reds the invaders to progressively smaller weekly By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS German troops lunging past the Zhitomir sector on the southern front have advanced to within 50 miles of capital of the soviet the Rus sians admitted while bof sides told of new the thousands in the 44rdajt Adolf Hitlers high commands claimed new successes vital central front guarding MOST The bulk of soviet forces trapped east of now have been The re mainder is facing a German communique Smolensk is 230 miles west of Claim Successes Nazi dispatches said sians were thousands tak en prisoner and 71 tanks cap tured in unstated northern This may have been the same action reported by the Geri man high which said red army were tak en prisoner west of Lake Peipus in on the northern front below The countered with a report that a soviet column smashed through German forces near N town on the northwest killing at least nail soldiers and littering the battle field with the wreckage of than 100 arm ored cars quantities of field On the diplomatic Pre mier Mussolini told Italian troops leaving for the wajc lineup is now complete for a clash between JBerlin and Tokyo on one side against Washington and the v New Front Likely II Duces disclosed only was made July 29 as he reviewed blackshirt legions at a flood of reports but officially un in London that Britain would soon dispatch an expeditionary force to open up a northern European possibly in j On the African war Brit ish middle east headquarters De ported that German and Italian troops were withdrawing from ad positions in the 4months old siege of the British garrison at Axis warplanes were busy af tacking other British in North persons were killed and wounded last night in a raid on the Suez heaviest cas yet recorded Threat Conceded The Germans grave new threat to Kiev and to the rich granaries of the Ukraine was conceded in a red army Nazi it had swept past the town of Zhitomir on both driving to the vicinity of Bel barely 50 miles south ojf and 80 miles northwest of the provincial capi the official German news said a Ital ian expeditionary force would Join the battle on the southern front within a few The Germans declared the cam
