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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-01-09
SPORTS

REDS WIN World SERIES-Base-
balls major prize-the World Series
Observation-Disclosures taken by National
League Cincinnati Reds as they de.
teated the Detroit Tigers in seven
game series. AbOve-jubilant Reds are
pictured in clubhouse after victory.
JANUARY
1-U. S. C. defeats Tennessee in Rose
Bowl football game, IA to O..
coach at Stanford for five years.
14-Landis frees 90 baseball players in
$500,000 ruling.
24-Armstrong keeps welterweight title,
stopping MontaneZ in ninth.
FEBRUARY
9-Joe Louis wins over Arturo Godoy in
Is rounds.
MARCH
4-Purdue wins Big Ten basketball title.
29-Joe Louis knocks out Paychek in Sec
ond round.
APRIL
6-Willie Hoppe wins three-cushion bill
lizard championship, winning all 20
games.
13-NeW York Rangers win Stanley cup
in hockey.
16-Baseban season opens; Bob Feller,
Cleveland, pitches no-hit game
against Chicago White SoX.
MAY
4-Gallahadion, 50 to l, wins Kentucky
derby.
10-Lew Jenkins stops Ambers in third
round.
3C-Wilbur Shaw wins 5OO-mile automo.
bile race at Indianapolis.
JUNE
6-Buddy Baer knocks out Valentine
Campolo in first round.
9-LaWson Little beats Gene SaraZen in
national open golf pllYOtf.
2O-Joe Louis stops Godoy in eighth
round.
Jack Dempsey knocks out wrestler
9-National league all-stars defeat
American league all-stars to 0.
17-Armstrong stops jenkins in sixth
round.
AUGUST
CDR. Eddie Anderson elected head
coach of the An-American football
29-Green Bay Packers defeat College
All-Stars As to %.
SEPTEMBER
2-Byron Nelson wins professional golf
e-Ril l:y,! Conn knocks out Bob Pastor in
14-Dick Chapman wins American anna
teur golf title.
19-Cincinnati Reds clinch National
2s-Max Baer stops Pat Comiskey in the
27-Detroit Tigers clinch pennant in
American baseball league.
OCTOBER
5-Fritzie Zivic wins welterweight box.
ing crown from Armstrong.
6-Chicago White SoX win city baseball
series from Chicago Cubs.
8-Cincinnati wins worlds series, de-
feating Detroit games in z.
NOVEMBER
13-Frank Mccormick of Cincinnati vot-
ed most valuable player in the Ma
"Gabby" Hartnett let out as man.
ager of the Chicago Cubs.
14-James T. Gallagher named general
manager of the Chicago Cubs.
DECEMBER
8-Chicago Bears defeat Washington
Redskins for professional football
championship Is to o.
12-Three-cornered trade between BoS-
ton Red Sox, Washington and Cleve.
land involves seven players.
l6-Joe Louis wins over Al Mccoy on
technical knockout in sixth round.
17-Ohio State accepts resignation OF
Francis Schmidt, football coach.
2O-Captain Wood leaves Army coaching
job.
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FEBRUARY

FEBRUARY
Japan prepares for difficulties in
relations with United States.
11-Belfast police fight 1000 I. R. A. riot.
ers two hours. 81
26-Welles hands MusSolini message
from Roosevelt. s.
2S-Ancient Egyptian kings tomb yields
vast riches.
MARCH
: Germany stops deportation of Jews
to district in Poland.
,13-S1r Michael O'Dwyer, British India
leader. aSsassinated by native gun
man.
,l9-French cabinet resigns in body.
!20-Paul Reynaud seeks to form new
cabinet for France
26-Russia recalls ambassador to Paris.
APRIL
1O-Iceland takes control of own foreign
affairs.
19-Jugo-Slavia sinashes Nazi plot to .
overturn government.
MAY
3O-Rumania votes state control over all
y businesses.
JUNE
22-Workers' coup results in new gov
eminent for Estonia.
JULY
9-Duke of Windsor appointed governor
of Bahamas.
14-Fulgencio Batista elected president
of Cuba.
23-Dr Benes heads new Czech regime
recognized by British.
American republics approve pro.
gram n resist NaZj influence in Mast.
ern hemisphere.
AUGUST
oil.
6-Japanese arrest seven members of
Salvation Army as spies.
7-Rumania passes severe new law
against Jews.
17-Duke of Windsor is sworn in as gov
ernor of Bahamas.
-Trotsky attacked by axman in home
In Mexico.
30-Rumania loses half Of Pennsylvania
to Hungary.
SEPTEMBER
s-Assassins attempt to kill King Carol
-K kd'sst, Ssrol yields power and picks
e-King Carol abdicates in favor of his
son Michael.
12-Mexico names Gen. Avila Camacho
preSident-elect.
14-Rumania now a totalitarian state
under Iron Guard rule.
22-Japs invade Indo-China: fight
French.
OCTOBER
1O-Assassins Stay Jap mayor of shang.
hal.
American charge d'affaires at Ber-
lin ordered home.
NOVEMBER
16-Survey plane hops to British Hon.
duras in hours, 35 minutes.
30-Cuba captures seven Japs in fish
boats with maps of U. S. bases.
DECEMBER
1-Gen. Manuel Avila Camacho sworn
in as president of Mexico pledges to
defend Americas.
18-Actual work started on Latin-America
air and naval bases.
20-Five thousand Cuban workers on
naval base go on strike.
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AUGUST

4EBritish f1iers bomb Germans massed
on channel coast for invasion.
6-Italians invade British Somaliland.
british liner torpedoed In convoy;
ass saved, 20 lost.
Pair blitzkrieg" has started, Britain
told, as Nazis launch third day Of
mass raids. Es,t,. -,.
italians mass on Egypt.
l3-Nad aerial Blitzlzrieg covers Brit.
: :, ain: Industrial heart bombed.
France indicts war guilt chiefs.
a7-Germany announces total blockade
Of waters around England.
f9-Italy conquerS British Somaliland.
-Churchins announces plan. TO lease
bases to United States on British ter.
ritory IN Western hemisphere.
&7-Axis orders pariey alter armed
clashes In Balkans.
:so-GermanY and Italy force HumAnia
90 cede part q Tfansylvania 70 Hun
cary.
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NOVEMBER

2-British land troops on Greek terri.
5-Two U-boats sunk by British.
6-British cut Gibraltar off from Spain.
8-Greek troops tighten net on Italians
in Albania.
1o-Italians routed in mountains by
, Greeks.
11-Greece reports Italians fleeing to-
12-British armed merchantmen. afire
and sinking, fights off German war.
ship and saves 20 ships in British
convoy.
in port Of laramie; two Italian supply
ships sunk in another engagement.
Waves of British planes bomb Berlin.
15-Germans drop 10000 fire bombs on
Coventry. England. 1000 killed.
Greeks capture TOO Italians.
16-GreekS claim wide gains against re-
treating Italians.
19-NaziS pound Birmingham.
20-Hungary enters axis, making it a
ur.poWer war on Britain.
21-Greeks drive deep into Albania; hem
J, in two vital Italian bases.
:. Liverpool raided twice In night
bombing attack.
22-Turkey proclaims martial law in
preparation for war.
Bombs damage thousands Of homes
near London.
italians in rout after Greeks take
KoritZa.
24-British vessel attacked by raider in
Atlantic.
Greek troops advance in three Sec
tors.
British bombers attack German and
Italian cities.
26-Britain offers guarantees to Bull
garia.
Bristol raided by Nazi bombers.
27-Sixty-four Rumanian political lead.
ers executed in Nazi purge.
Italian fleet attacked and pursued by
British.
29-Rumanian. troops shell Iron Guard
rebels.
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FEBRUARY,

a-Hotse passes farm bin slaShed.
IChicago gets Democratic national
LSenaeS committee approves bin %
permit additIonal loans % Finland
and China.
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SEPTEMBER

10-British bombs hit Reichstag building
in heart of Berlin.
11-Buckingham palace In London dam.
aged by air bombs.
12-Italy opens drive against Egypt.
14-Italy invades Egypt; takes two
towns.
19-British fleet blasts italian forces in.
2s-Britis6 warships shell West African
M-British bomb Berlin for three hours.
25-Germans depose King Haakon; end
Norwegian monarchy.
H-Germany, Italy and japan sign war
alliance.
OCTOBER
british planes bomb Krupp plant in
Germany.
3-Neville Chamberlain resigns from
British cabinet.
4-Hitler and Duce confer on war crisis.
Serve notice there will be no let up
7-German troops enter Rumania.
15-British cruiser sinks three Italian
destroyers.
H-British reopen Burma road.
18-AXis demands on Greece include ab-
dication of king, pro-aXis govern
ment and yielding of land
23-Six weeks of attacks baked inva-
sion, British say.
Hitler and Franco meet at French
border.
Spain arrests former King Carol and
Magda.
27-Greece and Italy declared at war.
Canadian destroyer sinks after col
lision with merchantmen; 40 lost.
28-British put war resources at disposal
of Greece.
3O-Greeks put up stout defense against
Italians.
31-First Greek counterattack shoves
back Italians.
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u I'LL
1-Germans occupy two British islands
in channel. Rumania renounces An.
glo.French guarantee of her inde-
pendence.
3-British navy acts to take over scat
tered units of French fleet, attacking
ships that refuse to surrender.
4-Brftish report seizure of $50 French
naval vessels.
5-The French government at Vichy,
dominated by Berlin, breaks off rela.
tons with Britain.
6-French naval squadron at Alexan-
dria yields to British.
9-British and Italian fleets battle In
Mediterranean.
1-Churchin declares Britain ready to
fight for years.
15-Gibraltar raided four times.
19-Hitler calls on Britain to give up the
war or face destruction OF the EN-.
pire.
21-Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. I'm.
der pressure from Moscow. vote to
Join the Soviet Union.
23-France seizes Daladier and former
aides.
29-Germany launches mass air raids
on Britain.
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EUROPEAN WAR

OV 1S4 A4A1 w LII NASA0 ~
the Nazi cOnqueroT, the SsUastitG,
floats oUer crushed Paris following in.
pasion. Famed Eifel TOtOer can be
seen in background.
JANUARY
8-Finland claims destruction of Rus.
: sian division.
20-Winston Churchill warns Europe'S
neutrals they cannot keep out of war
and asks them to join the allies.
FEBRUARY
l-Russians start heavy assault on the
Mannerheim line. -
9-President sends Sumner WelleS to
confer with rulers of Britain. France,
Italy and Germany.
16-Sweden rejects Finnish plea for aid
17-British raid German prison ship in
Norwegian waters, rescuing 326 cap
tives.
24-Prime Minister Chamberlain de-
clares Britain never will conclude
peace with present Reich rulers.
MARCH
1-Russians enter Vipuri. key to Fin
) nish city.
11-Allies offer full aid to the Firms.
12-SoViet-F Finnish peace treaty signed,
Russia getting Karelian isthmuS and
naval base at Hangoe.
17-Nazi bombers raid British anchorage
at Scapa Flow.
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SEPTEMBER

1-Roosevelt calls up $1,000 National
Guard for years service with U. S.
army.
LPresident announces exchange of so
destroyerS to Great Britain for air
and naval bases in British Western
hemisphere possessions.
4-Secretary Hull reneWS warning to
Japan on Indo.China.
6-Congress passes 514 billion defense
bill.
7-House passes draft bill; sets ages
at Fl to As.
Q-Navy orders 200 warships.
14-Conscription bill passes congress.
16-War department calls out 5000
more GuardSmen.
Sam Rayburn elected speaker OF the
house to succeed Bankhead.
19-Senate passes excess profits bill.
House votes third Of billion to
house draft army. -: ..
2O-Marc de Tristan. three.year.Old son
Of Count Marc de Tristan. kidnapped
In Hillsbor0. CALI; held tor $780,.
600 ransom.
sl-Census bureau reports population Of
u. s.. lS1, 100 ,001.
44-Ttw0 hunters capture ktdn@pe9 ana
Fescus Marc dc Tristan IN California
ss-Raossvslt bars GRport os scsao mssal
% Japan.
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JUNE

4HNazis take Dunkirk; Hitler vows to
destroy foe.
Last allied troops leave Dunkirk.
8-French forced back by onslaught OF
million Germans.
French claim Berlin bombed.
9Allies evacuate NarVik; Norway sur
renders to Germany.
1O-Italy declares war on the allies. Ger
mans cross the Seine.
13-French decide not to defend Paris.
German troops march in.
14-Germans attack Maginot line in eff
fort to trap million French.
17-Petain becomes premier OF France
and asks Germany for armlstlce.
Britain declares it will fight on alone:
2O-Germans pick Compiegne, scene OF
1918 armistice, for parley.
22-France signs German ar1nlStlce.
23-Nazi terms strip France of arms and
land; navy interned.
French government repudiated by
Britain
24-Germany ends war on France; cease
firing order issued.
26-Soviet and Rumania planes clash.
27-Rumania cedes BeSSarabia and
northern Bukovina to Russia.
28-French colonies in Asia and Africa
Kumanians fight Red troops. kill
many.
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APRIL

4-Winston Churchill given general SUI
pervision over Britain's fighting
9-Germans occupy Denmark, which
resists. Oslo, the capital, is taken.
12-Germans capture more Norwegian
ports, while British feet tries to cut
supply line across Skagerrak:
16-British expedition arrives on Norway
coast and is battered by German
bonberS.
30-Germans capture Dombaas, key rail
town in Norway.
MAY
3-Norwegian army in central Norway
seeks peace as British and French
withdraw.
11-AIiies rush aid to low countries;
prime minister.
14-Dutch armies cease resistance:
16-Nazis mass for Balkan raid; believed
aimed at Rumanian oil:
French commander; Germans WITHIN
so miles of Paris.
21-Germans reach French channel
coast, cutting off British-Belgian
forces.
22-Britain votes Dictatorship; Churchill
given supreme power; LABOR ana
wealth to be drafted.
Allies check German drive on 2OO-
2LGermans tighten net around British,
French and Belgian troops.
25--Gerfnans claim Calais.
France shakes up general statt;
27-Belgium gives up on orders OF King
3o-Battered British troops reach Eng
land from Flanders.
Belgian cabinet deposes Leopold for
surrender.
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AUGUST

6-House approves overlapping to trap
fifth columniStS.
7-House votes permission for Ameri-
can ships to bring children from
war zone.
Army arsenals ordered to use three
daily shifts.
8-Senate gives President power to call
National Guard.
Farley resigns as postmaster gen.
eral. .,
12-Russia demands America recall all
it's Baltic ENJOYS.
15-House passes bill for Guard call.
18-Roosevelt announces pact with Can"
ada for a joint defense board.
2O-Claude r. Wickard nominated to sue"
coed Wallace as secretary OF agrl"
culture.
23-President approves plans for trans.
fer of destroyerS to Britain.
2HHarry Hopkins resigns as secretary
of commerce. Jesse Jones his suc'
ceSSor. r
crank Walker named to succeed Far
lev as postmaster general.
2a-Senate passes draft bill including
conscription Of industry.
30-Army orders 687 planes; 10000 en-
gineS.
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OCTOBER

8-Chicago Bears defeat Washington
Redskins for professional football
championship 70 to O..
12-Three-cornered trade between Bos-
ton Red SoX, Washington and Cleve-
land involves seven players.
16-Joe Louis wins over Al Mccoy on
technical knockout in sixth round.
17-Ohio State accepts resignation OF
Francis Schmidt, football coach.
2O-Captain Wood leaves Army coaching
job.
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AUGUST

6-Dr. Eddie Anderson elected head
coach of the All-American football
team.
29-Green Bay Packers defeat College
All-StarS As to %.
Evening star., 1941-04-13

THE Amerieon League beeon its existence os
1901 Washington wos admitted with Jome
Konsos City. teom which survived only one
club. the Washington Senotors (disbonded in
recognition. Fons were given ehonee to red
it would imbue new sDirt. They become the
1t wos not until 1912, however. thot the
they finished second under the management o.
Over 40-yeor period greet mony eoIorf,
Washington club Some to become only mem
AItrock, Griffith ond johnson. The teom hos
one World Seies-ond fought desperately II
anew.
Since 1905 Horris 6 Ewing, photographed
field TO World Series Represented here ore q
OF over 5000, 900 neqotives.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-22

are far of. Then they hear that rollicking laugh. The set eXpres. sion slips Q bit, as they push for. ward to see what otlfers have evi. dently stopped to see. Then as thy near the fourth row of people they too begin to laugh with the many crAInmed In front, locking at a dummy man has made for Q holl. day display. They move on to Shop m nearby stores with 6 different outlook on life.
 We need laughter and good cheer. Let's not bow to fear. Insurance men tell us that no matter how ses were action becomes the hurts of. feet only an inAnitesilnai figure compared to our population. So let's have c little laughter, Soothe those worried little tots we have alarmed with our hate of war, You can tell them to be cautious by citing stevenson's shaoow March. Al round the house Is the lot.
 black night:
 It Stares through the window
 pane:
 It crawls in the corners hiding
 from light,
 And 1t moves with the moving
 EAIne.
 Now my little heart goes c.
 beating like q drum, With the breath of the Bogie in
 my hair;
 And oil round the candle the
 crooked shadows come \ And 90 marching Along up the
 stair.
 The shadows of the baiusters, the
 shadows of the lamp, The shadow of the child that goes
 to bed-
 All the wicked shadows coming,
 tramp, tramp, tramp, With the black night overhead" Keep tuned to the thought that real shadows will be followed by Q dawn that promises many Merry Christmas" days ahead for those we love. The way to preserve this holi- day ig to make 1t Q Merry Christi masl" I hope it vii bring you hap- piness too.
 ,. JAY.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-22
War Called Horrible
 Nightmare By Pastor
Rev. Dr.. John c. Walker Claims Christmas This Year Should Give Us Stronger Faith in Message of Peace

and say that we were foolish to talk of peace when we should have been preparing for war. Do you say, why not be realistic about the kind Of Q world In which we livep
 mako bold to say, and I believe that this Is part, the essential part of the Christmas message, I make bold to say that ware Is tho fantasy, the horrible nightmare, and peace is the reality. Peace on earth will come, must come, because it Is Gods will and Gods law. Brutality, hate, aggression, treachery seem to be the realities but the message o& Christmas is that these things are passing away. Oh I grant that we cannot dismiss them with q wave of the hand and that terrible months and nayhap years of strug-. gle lie ahead but when the next armistice comes there will open before the world the greatest and most glorious opportunity for re- building Q better world in tho his- tory of mankind
 Christmas is the final, the ulti- mate reality, not war, not death, not destruction. There is something prophetic and glorious about the story that came out of England just before Christmas last year. You may remember that in the early winter a year ago Britain suffered It's worst air raids, raids which we hope and pray will never, can never be re- peated. one dreadful night the raid- CTS struck Liverpool. Relays of planes totaling hundreds swooped down on the city. Wave after wave of heavy hombers carried on c long night assault leaving behind . dreadful spectacle. But this is the story that warns the heart with courage and faith. At the height of the assault In the air raid shelters the people were singing Christmas carols. Some of the words must have seemed to be incongruous but others must have found the words truly prophetic.
 70 little town of Bethlehem,
 How still we sec thee lieI
 Above thy deep and dreamlesS
 sleep, The silent stars 60 by;
 Yet in thy dark streets shineth
 The everlasting Light:
 The hopes and fears of oil the
 years Are met in Thee to-
 night"
 This insanity of blasting innocent people with high explosives must pass but the story Of Bethlehem will live forever.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-22

We need Christmas tremendous " ia days of disaster" stated Rev. Dr. John O. Walker, Second Con- gregational church pastor, yester- day morning in his sermon orl- titled, "Thefe will Always Be Q Chrlstmas1.
 pr. walker said in part:
 We need Che inspiration, 'he charm, the hope of Christmas. Tn a day when the great nations of the world are concentrating all their energies on death and destruc- ton, when the fate of generations to come turn upon Q worldwide struggle, we need desperately the message of Christmas. The song of tlie angels is mooked by the I will of sinful men but we will not forego our faith. "0lory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men," We could not go on believing in God, 1t seems to me, unless we believe that the things VIC witness today are of an order that iS passing away Mnd that beyond the fears and horrors of this present hour there win come 6 day when peace shall reign nnd an era of good will shall dawn over the earth.
 To some 1t might seem Q mock cry to talk Of peace and good will in times like these but we are of another and greater faith. Tn U day when there is no peace, or Nt least no security of peace, any, where In the world, we hold by our faith in the song of the angels, And we must keep our faith m these days. Thls Christmas ought not to be the usual Christmas where Christmas giving consists so largely in the exchange of goods and chattels between people who have too many creature comforts already. This ChriStmaS ought to mean something genuine in Christ- mas giving, the kine of giving which leaves the giver poorer in this worlds goods and richer in she things of the spirit. And above and beyond ell that, Christmas shis year should give us . stronger faith in the message of Christi mas, the message of peace and power.
 "Poece on earth"--think you 1t Is but . dream? Do you point to the fact that through the centuries of recorded history war has been the common order of the day and peace but the exception that proves the general rule7 DO you say 1t is Idle to talk of peace, lasting peace7 You can point to the present situation
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-22
COLLEGE STUDENTS
 TO BE ENROLLED
Navy Plans to Sign Up Students; on Inactive
 Duty Until Graduation
-NEA Telephcto

The navy department today an- nounoed Q plan to enlist 400 college students and graduates in Connectl- cut in the naval reserve, to Do re. tained on inactive duty until they receive their degrees and then to be trained as officers.
 The new program will enable 200 seniors and graduates and 200 jun. iors to enlist in the naval reserve at once, with the understanding that they will be called to active duty only after they graduate. They will then receive 30 days indoctrination training with the rating of appren- tice SeAmen, followed by three months training as midshipmen an tho naval reserve, Upon completion of the training they will 'he com- miSSioned aS enSlgnS In the naval reserve.
 The training program will Do in the old "ClaSs V.7" of the naval reserve, which has previously been open to college graduates, but not to students.
 Nationally the program will seek 1A,0o0 oftcer candidates. The states quota of 400 was apportloned on the basis of It's college population.
 The program in Connecticut will be conducted by theenavy recruiting service, which has branch offices in oil the larger cities. Previously pro. curement of officers and ofilcer can. didateS hos been an activity of the third naval district headquarters in New York.
 "The new program should bene44v not only the navy, but the colleges and college men," Lieut.. Walter '. Hinckiey, of1icer in charge Of res cruiting in Connecticut, said today. "The men will be given opportunity to Do of national service without jeopardiElng their education, and the colleges, at least in part, will be freed from the worry of reduced student bodies because of Selective service and volunteer enlistments."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-22
Breezing Round New York


New York, Dec. 22-"There ought to be Q law" against calling Q mu- scum . museum. It la strange how 30 many people avoid going to such places simply because they are open to the general public without an admission charge.
 New Workers, perhaps are Q good deal to blame for that "let'S forget 1t" feeling which causes abandon. ment of many proposed trips to these wonedrful institutions that represent more money than oil the shows combined in Times Square and New York City. Christmas time might be considered Q poor