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GRAHAM NOT RUNNING
Raleigh, Sept. 10.—Dr. Frank
Porter Graham, president of the
University of Xorth Carolina,
said ■with emphasis today “I am
not a candidate, and I do not in
tend to become a candidate,’’
■when asked if he expected to run
for governor.
ALL IN READINESS FOR OPENING OF THE FAS
THREE YEARS WAR
London, Sept. 9.—The British
government announced today it
would base its policy on the as
sumption that the war would
last at least three years. The
ministry of information, which
made the announcement, said the
decision was agreed upon at a
.meeting of the war cabinet.
War Rages On Two Fronts
IF
GETS HOME SAFELY
New York, Sept. 10.—Tears of
joy mingled with cheers yester
day as the French liner lie d’
France w'ith Miss Jc.ssie C. I.aird,
of 504 Forest street. Greensboro.
N. C.. among its passengers
passed the statue of liberty and
docked safely here, aft“r a voy
age so mysterious that the where
abouts of the vessel remained un
known to shipping men and en.s-
toms officials until it entered
New York harbor. Miss Tmird is
associate professor of romance
lan.gtiages at Woman's college,
Greensboro.
German Progress
In Poland Is Slow;
Reports Conflict
French Make Inroads On
Western Front; Subma
rines Play Havoc
Monument Unveiled to Founders of Liberty
Record Crowds Expected As Gates
Swing Open Tuesday Momii^[; Many
Attractions Assured AH Fair Visitors
Scott Sensation
At World’s Fair
New York City
'•Vffi-’-
Adolf Flitler’s armies fought to
day on the Vistula and the
Rhine.
Warsaw’s defenders, barricaded
behind street cars and digging in
I more deeply every hour, still held
' out and reported the Nazi armies
I had been thrust back at some
points from tbe shelled and j
I flamescarred capital. _ |
j Along a front of perlmu.^ 1' 0 I
■ mites, I’olish armies believed to |
' to’al more than half of the na
tion’s original 4,000,000 trained
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HITLER OVER POL\ND
Berlin. Sept. 10.- An official
German news agency dispatch
from the eastern front staled
that Adolf Hitler had made an
extended airplane flight over the
battlefield today. His first flight
over the eastern front took Hit
ler over the Kilsz-Radom region
where just west of the Vistula
river several Polish divisions
were declared surrounded. Then
rising to an altitude of 1.000
meters Hitler followed the route
of the retreating Polish army In
the direction of Warsaw.
WILL 1-TGHT U-BOATS
London, Sept. 1C.—Great Bri
tain answered German submarine
warfare today by swinging Into
an ■■unremitting” campaign of
‘‘attacks and counter measures.”
The government made the an
nouncement without giving de
tails in a terse communique as
serting “it appears that German
submarines are now operating
lar afield” -4.t the same time It
announced extension of machin-
ery to implement the British i
‘■contraband control” through
stations at Gibraltar and Alex
andria at either end of the Medi
terranean and on Ceylon in the
Indian ocean.
soldiers were reported rallying on
! the Vistula River front in a new
' stand against German tanks, ar-
’lillery and infantry thrusts
; long an irregular line cutting a-
cross the center of the country
from the Narew to the San River, j
Seven hundred miles away on
Germany’s western front, French
troops reported that they threw
back the first important Nazi
counter offensive In the Rhine
land. Reports from the front said
there had been hand-to-hand
fighting with bayonets along the
Sierck-Saarour road.
■rhe French advance into Posi
tion for an attack on lae main
Nazi westwall fortifications in
the Rhineland felt its way deeper
into German territory east of
Saarbrucken and for the first
time Germany admitted fighting
on her own ground, although the
Berlin communique said the
French lost “many dead” ind
that four allied planes were shot
down.
IxKsins Momentiiiii j
Thus, after 11 days of war in |
Europe, the German plan for a I
lightning war to crush Poland
and quick peace with Britain and
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Gov. William VanderbUt of Rhode Island, right, unveils a monument
the Jewish congregation of the city which was Brst established tj 1858 when 15 Jew^ famiUM
Newport from the West Indies. Rabbi Morris Gntstein. right, participated In tbe exercises, which were part
of the colorful Newport tercentenary celebratton.
■World’s Fair, N. Y.—A pair of
size 19 shoes, a phenonmenon even
in the World of Tomorrow, car
ried the seven feet, four inches
and 308 pounds of J. T. Scott In
to the North Carolina exhibit of
the New York World’s Fair this
week. Sjfcott, 32, is a farmer in
Ashe county, N. C., has been em
ployed at Forester’s Nu-Way
service in North Wilkesboro for
sometime.
His size 19 shoes carry him In
a few tremendous strides from
his home in Grassy Branch, N.
C„ across the state line to Mouth
of Wilson, Virginia, where_ he
receives his mail. They encom
passed the World’s Fair in a day
with a minimum of energy. And,
according to the hostesses at the
state exhibit, they proved a con
vincing Illustration of the great
ness of North Carolina products.
$259,125 Paid Out
In Wilkes County
Thru Security Act
Assembly Pro^am WilkcS McU
At City bchoois ! it o
To Be Wednesday!Face U. S. Loiirt
On Liquor Charge
$117,608 Represented Un
employment Compensa
tion Checks to Jobless
ROaSEVELT WRITES
New York, Sept. 9.—President |
Roosevelt, in a letter to the Na-j
tional Retail Dry Goods assoei-^
atlon today asked the aid of the j
nation’s retailers in protecting |
the public against war-time j
boosting of prices. “It is absolute-1
ly essential that we protect the
consumer by preventing any gen-,
’eral rise in prices,” said the com-^
munication. “Unwarranted in- ,
crease in prices would absorb ,
purchasing power and block ex-;
pansion of sales volume. Such a
development would mean serious
threat to continuance of our bus
iness progress. I hope that the
nation’s retailers, comprising as
they do such an Important seg
ment of our economic life, will
meet these new responsibilities
in a manner best serving the in
terests of all our people. ’
Quartet Singing
At Welcome Home
The Blue Ridge quartet sing
ing association will meet at Wel
come Home Baptist church three
miles west of this city on Sunday
afternoon, September IT. begin
ning at 2:30 p. m.
All quartets are invited to be
present and take part in the pro
gram and the public has a cor
dial invitation to attend.
North Wilkesboro
Wins Game 11 to 5
North Wilkesboro’s baseball
team defeated Highland Cordage,
of Hickory, here Saturday 11 to
5 in a game featured by frequent
and long distance hitting on the
part of local sluggers. |
Van Wiles hit two homers
Ihvhile Reavis and Icenhour led in
number of hits with three each
- Baker and Canutt formed the
‘ Hickory battery while Hamby and
Icenhour worked for North Wil-
keshoro. No game was played
Sunday due to the fact that pr^-
pr.,tiens for the fair were under
Gilreath -Story
Law Firm Formed
T. E. Story Enters Law Prac
tice With C. G. Gilreath;
Office Here
Wilkes county residents and
communities have henefitted to
the extent of approximately:
$259,125.00 through operation of
the ten divisions of the Social Se- |
curity Act, some parts of which ,
have been active for more than I
three years, it is estimated by j
Chairman Charles G. Powell, of
the State Unemployment Compen
sation Commission.
Wilkes county Is probably an
average North Carolina county,
in so far as industry and agricul
ture are concerned, and the re
sult is that a considerable par.
of the total amount going to the
The public is invited to the as-1
semhly period in the North Wll- j
kesboro high school oii Wednea-1
day morning, .9:30 o’clock, which o , m
will he in the form of formal i Winston-Salem, Sept. 1 .
opening assembly. |Two Wilkes county white men
'The schools are progressing | ^ Winston-Salem neg o
nicely and the total enrollment i bound oyer to federal court -yes-
has climbed to 1,093. Of this! terday after a preliminary hear-
number 623 are in the element-; Ing on a charge of violating the
, ary school. 308 in the high school ■ internal revenue law.
and 1B2 in the colored school.
The enrollment is about 50 high
er than the school membership
at any one time during any prev
ious year.
Commissioners In
September Meeting
They were Uless Brewer, Mar
vin M. Baugess, both of Wilkes
county, and John R. Heller, ne
gro, Winston-Salem. Bond of
$.100 was set after a hearing be
fore United States Commissioner
Ctarles Ader.
Federal officers arrested them
Friday night just off the Box
Mountain road, six miles from
com- iiore. and confiscated 90 gallons
Maxwell Declares
State Should Not
Increase Taxation
Comn^issioner Of Revenue
Speaks Before Meetingf
Three Clubs Here
Wilkes county board of com- (
missioners in September meeting ■ of liquor.
Ia.sl week transacted usual busi-1 According to evidence brought
. , ness matters and drew a jury for ; out at the hearing tho had
of the total amount going to October term of court. Names | been cached a. the point where
county, not quite one-half of the; pu,,,is,,cd j they were arrested. They were en-
• otai hiiK been in Unemployment |, . . : eaeed in transferring it
T. E. Story, for 15 years head
of WiIke.sboro district schools, to
day entered the practice of law in
partnership with Chas. G. Gil
reath, who has been practicing
law ill IVilkesboro for 3 6 years.
Attorney Gilreath will contirje
at his office in Wilkesboro orpo-
site the courthouse and Attorney
Story, the junior member of the
firm has established an office on
tho second floor of the Bank of
North ■W^lkesboro building be
tween the offices of Attorney J.
H. Whicker and Attorney W. H.
McElwee in this city.
Attorney Story obtained his
license to practice law in 1933,
passing the examination that year
after studying law during the
summer under Dr. Gulley at
Wake Fore.st. He received his A.
B. and .M. A. degrees previously
at the University of North Caro
lina.
For 2 6 years he was a high
school principal, having served
Bayleaf school in Wake county.
Oak Hill in Caldwell and Trinity 1
In Randolph before coming to |
Wilke.sboro. For five summers he i
taught in A. S. T. C., one at Le- j
noir-Rhyne and directed icacliers’
sumirer schools one year each in
Randolph and Wilkes county.
Last year he wa.s elected presi
dent of tbe Northwestern District
of the North Carolina Education
association.
Attorney Gilreath studied law
at 'Wake Forest under Dr. Gulley
and Dr. Mordacei, receiving his
license in 19(T3. Since that time
he has been a member of the
Wilkes bar and is widely known
in the profession.
In addition to his law course
at Wake Forest, Attorney Story
studied law two years from the
American Extension University of
Los Angeles, California, and read
law for one year under AAtorney
total, has been in Unemployment |
Compensation. Figures show that;
Wilkes residents have received I
16.330 checks for a total of
$117,603.80 in these jobless ben
efits in the 18 months ending
June 30, Mr. Powell said.
With cooperation of Mr. Nath
an L. Yelton, State director of
Public Assistance, and Dr. Roma
S. Cheek, executive secretary of
the State Commission for the
Blind, and with figures in the
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later
: gaged in transferring it to a car
1 when taken into custody, officers
, testified.
Charged with violating the con
' ditions of his parole, Bryan
,* . , , J Rhvmer, of Wilkes county, w
A very successful revival closed j ^
Revival Held At
Friendship Church
Saturday night at Friendship
church near Millers Creek, re-
' suiting in many conversions and
'additions to the church.
I The pastor. Rev. J. A. Wall,
was assisted by Rev. Mr. Temple-
ton. of Mooresville.
ordered to post bond of $1,000
it a special
Judge
i for appearance at a special hear
Creek,
ing on October 2 before
Johnson J. Hayes.
Termites have been found in
every state except North Dakota.
As Amazed Britishers Viewed Runaway Launching
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A. J. Maxwell, North Carolina
commissioner of revenue who has
been frequently mentioned as a
candidate for governor next year,
delivered an interesting address
Friday evening here before a
joint meeting of the North Wil
kesboro, Lenoir and Elkin Ki-
wanis clubs.
The meeting was called to or
der at 6:40 by D. J. Carter, pres
ident of the North Wilkesboro
club. There ■were 16 in attend
ance from Elkin, 33 from Lenoir
and 35 members of the local club
with several guests, making a
total attendance of 98. |
Invocation was by Gus McLain, |
of Lenoir, welcome address by A.
H. Casey, of this city, division i
lieutenant governor of Kiwanij,
and responses were by Earl
James, of Elkin, and Jim Gossler,
of Lenoir.
The North Wilkesboro quar
tette. consisting of Rev. Eugene
Olive, J. .M. Ketchle, Shelton Can
ter. and C. B. Higgins, sang “Old
Black Joe” and “Lord I Want To
Be a Christian.”
Rev. Watt Cooper was program
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Exhibits Excell Anjrthing
Shown At Previous Fsurt
In This City
FREE AUTOMOBILE
Good Grandstand , Acts{
Georgeous Fireworks
West’s Wonder Shows
Mountain View
EnroDment 700
147 Registered In The High
School; Teague Heads
Faculty Of Eighteen
Enrollment at Mountain 'View
high school is near 700, it was
learned today from L. W. Teague,
head of the Mountain 'View cen
tral district. j
Of this number 147 are regis-|
tered in the high school depart- \
ment. |
The school, one of the larger i
consolidated units in the Wilkes
system, has a faculty of 18. A :
successful school year is antlcl- j
paled.
Tobacco Markets
Close Wednesday
I
H M S. Formldsbte, new British slrorsft carrier, rides serenely off the Belfast, Ireland,
lannchtog heMeff^lf-honr ahead of time. The 23,000-ton craft started sUding down the
were hnwhlng ont the props preparatory to the Uimching. As tt ptched np spe^> csreenlni
water, M hnrfed timbers in aU directions, killing one woman ahd InJ^ 20
Wood, sponsor of the boat, managed to hurl the traditional bottle of cbwpagne at the retreating craft. I H
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new craft is considered one of the most modem of its kind in the world.
Because of the withdrawal of
English buyers from the markets
due to war tension, tobacco
markets which have opened will
close on ’Wednesday of this week
and markets scheduled to open
j on next Monday will be delayed,
according to a decision reached
by warehroke men recently. This
means that’ the Winston-Salem
market, scheduled to open on
September, 8 and at which a
great part of the tobacco grown
in this section is sold, will open
at a later date.
Prices on markets which open-
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The Great Northwestern Fair
on Tuesday morning will open
a five-day exposition which Is ex
pected to eclipse any previous fair
held in North Wilkesboro.
The large exhibit ball today
was being filled with a profusion
of exhibits from the farms, homes
and orchards of Wilkes and ad
joining counties and those in
charge freely predicted that ex
hibits would be more numerous
and of better quality than last
year’s showing which drew much
unsolicited praise from judges
and fair visitors. Premiums this
year were Increased to approxi
mately $3,000.
For the first time in history
of the fair here, no commercial
exhibits are being placed in tbe
big armory ball and all space
there is devoted to exhibits from
the farms and homes, 'fhe addi
tion to the building will bouse the
commercial exhibits.
And while exhibits were being
placed today and tonight arrange
ments for the other features of
the fair were going full blast.
Frank West with his big carnival
of new shows and rides has ar
rived and has filled all avallabie
space on the midway. An advance
survey of the midway attractions
revealed a number of unique at
tractions and some new rides
which have not been in North
Wilkesboro before.
The grandstand act performers
have arrived and have placed
equipment in position for the big
two-hour show in front of the
grandstand during the five big
days and nights of the exposition.
The performers include Tho
Great Peters, the man who hangs
himself for a living; the Hcxola
troupe of acrobats and skaters;
the Paramount Revue, a feature
broadway show of dances and
music; and Silver, the Wonder
Horae, an unusually fuLuy pre
sentation.
Each night’s performances will
be climaxed with “The Bombing
Of Venice,” a new and unique
display of fireworks showing for
the first time in the south.
The fair officials are expecting
over 10,000 school children as
guests on opening day. Free tick
ets have been issued through the
schools for the children to attend
on Tuesday, the opening day.
A new 1939 Chevrolet sedan
purchased from Gaddy Motor
compan}! will be given away ab
solutely free to some person at
tending the fair one night thb
week.
The fair officials have put
forth unusual efforts to secure
major attractions and to make ol
the fair an outstanding event for
northwestern North Carolina, J.
B. Williams, prominent local
business man who heads the fair
as president, said today.
Every detail to assure enter
tainment and comfort for fair
visitors has been given attention
and many improvements have
been made on the grounds and
buildings. In order that a great
number could enjoy the stage
shows in comfort the grandstand
was enlarged to double the ■'seat
ing capacity and will now seat a-
bout 3,000.
A special tent has been erected
to house a herd of about 20
purebred jersey cattle which will
be on exhibit by 4-H club mem
bers, Dan Holler, county agent,
said today. The cattle shows ■will
also be shown at the Catawba,
Mecklenburg. North Carolina and
South Carolina state fairs.
The apple exhibits as being
placed today promise to be of ex
traordinary quality and quantity
and will be an outstanding fea
ture of the exposition. A better
display of extilblts is expected
than will be shown at any other
fair In the south. Fruit grower*
from Virginia and from several
sections of North Carolina have
been extended special Invitationa
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