t£ jrOUBNAI/-FATIUOT HM
5ED THE\TRAIL OF
ICS
i’ I/ondon. — Aerial torjiedoefl—
pr»p«Uor~8temmed cjrlinden ol
devtrectlon—were loosed 'by Nazi
boiB'bera Isks': uight in attacks
wblch smashed housee by the row
and buried uncounted rlctlms in
the ruins.
The torpedoes wire hurled, a-
. long with shriek lombs, at one
southeast town after a day of
ceaseless hlt-and-nn attacks by
lone Nasi raders while the royal
' air force keipt up its steady coun
ter-punching at German bases.
A whole row ^of eight little
trorker cottages was smashed into
^ gaagVa of debris where the tor-
pedoes were launched horizontal
ly. Numerous other residences
■ were wrecked.
One old woman just put to bed
by her son was in a house ripped
to splinters by the explosion. The
son alone crawled from the
Not one brick was left upon an
other where the adjoining house
had stood.
Dig For ‘Bodies
Late into the night firemen
and rescue squads dug into the
rplns for bodies. Beneath other
^l^es voices were heard faintly
3hT rescuers believed they might
find some still alive who had
ught shelter in basements and
ere trapped. .
'‘I saw a bomber sweep down
from the clouds," one witness re
lated. “It had ns engines shut off
and as it dived 1 saw a huge black
bomb shaped like a torpedo leave
the plane. As. the torpedo dropp
ed the plane seemed to shoot up
into the air as though after re
leasing a heavy load. ’
The witness said the explosion
“shook the whole town". It’s
crater measured more than 30
feet long.
Customarily aerial torpedoes
are launched at sea from planes
diving close to their targets.
Another raider splattered a
southeastern town with six .bombs
which killed one man in a garden,
smashed a row of stores, and
wrecked an empty school air
raid shelter.
(liiinge In Tactic.s
The Nasi aerial invastion
brought a change in
ty individual
darting attacks -y .
nianM wh«r« Ottly » ^ Creek line from Ferguson will be
ing hundreds. Jt
 Solitary raiders appewred here
and there along that “corner of
hell." the southeast coast; over
the indus'trial midlands, over
Wales and northeast England.
VOL. xxxm. No. 45
All Except Five
Miles Of Power
Lines Repaired
Harley Community On High
way 421 Only Place
Without Electricity
All of Duke Power conypany’s
more than 300 miles of electric
lines in Wilkes county are on
with the exception ot about five
miles in the western part of the
county along highway 421, it was
learned today from Robert S.
Gibbs, Jr., manager of the North
Wiikesboro branch.
Extensive damage was done to
the lines in the flood Tuesday
night and Wednesday of last
week. The entire system here was
out last Wednesday due to a pole
being out on the main line to
Winston-Salem and flooded trans-
formel’s at Lookout dam but serv
ice in the Wilkesboros and on
some rural lines was restored on
last Wednesday night.
Since that time all available re
pair men here, including a crew
of 17 who were engaged in build
ing new lines, have been busily
engaged getting rural lines re
paired and in some instances
reconstructed.
The five miles on highway 421
have not been repaired because
there are no roads over ■which
supplies can be hauled into that
section, Mr. Gibbs said, and it is
necessary to rebuild a few miles
there which were destro.ved by
the torrential flood waters of
Lewis Fork creek.
Electric service was rester.ed
yesterday to the almost devastat
ed village of Ferguson 15 miles
west of here on the Yadkin. Re
pair crews had to float poles and
other materials across the Vad-
tactics— icin because the bridge was wash
ed out. It is expected that the Elk
—I—.
Red CroM Doing Wmderful
Job Of Cnring For Emer^
gency Needs In County
A character study picture of Wendall L. Willkie, who accepted the
RepisMican nomination for president in an address Saturday. Ac
count of address may be found elsewhere in this newspaper.
Agncaltnral Authorities
Ask Aid For Farmers Who
Lost Crops In Flood Areas
Meeting Held
Wednesday For
Damage Survey
tlon was necessary at a number
of places.
Mr. Gibbs explained that con
struction of ne'W lines will be
temporarily suspended until all
existing lines are fully repaired.
Wilkes C. C. Camp City Water Here
Is Killed Pronounced O.K.
]|||ember
At Elkin Tuesday I Tested By state Laboratory
Yesterday; Plant Oper-
0dn A. Powell, Of Parson-, ating Normally
v"lle, Hit By A Car On
Hugh Chatham Bridge
City officials here today an
nounced that water in the North
. W'lke.sboro system has been ex
.4,lvin A. Powell. IS. enrollee of approved and is all
Camp Clyde R. Hoey of the CCC , j^inking purposes,
near Elkin, fatally injured Mon
day night at 9:30 when struck by
an autoniot)ile operated by Mil-
ton A. Mullis. of Charlotte, died
A report from the state labora
tory Wednesday gave the water a
clean bill ot' health.
hospital Tuesday
in the Elkin
morning.
The accident occurred near the
end of Hugh Chatham Memorial
bridge on the Yadkin side of the
river while Powell, with a
low camp enrollee, I.atnnie Evans,
was parolling : tio„ Saturday but warning wa
Sis they had since the f.ood, -warn- health department
ing travelers of the danger of drinking
lighted matches tossed into the , ... , —,
oil-covered water.
The filtration plant and pump
ing station at the reservoir here
on the Reddiea River was put out
of commission by the flood last
Wednesday and extensive dam-
was done to the generators
land motors by flood waters. How-
the plant resumed oper.i-
Estimated 60 Per Cent Of
Com Crop In Wilke*
By J. B. SXfPRS,
(Wilkes County Farm Aeenti
A meeting of the tow-nshlp and
county committeemen of the A.4A
and also the county commission
ers, also with tlie district super
visors of the Tri-Creek Soil Con
servation service and Farm Se
curity arimiiilstration. was called
tosether in the Wilkes county
courthou'ae Op Wednesday niorn-
ing. for the purpose of coming te
some conclusion as 1o the dam
age of the recent flood to the
crops in the comity as a who’e.
and also, discussed steps to take
in order to get assistance from
the federal govermnent for per-
Wilkes Farmers
Suffering Losses
Are To Register
In anticipation that some
forni of ai«L pos-slbly a direct
federal grant, may be seciifed,
all fanners In Wilkes county
who .suffered food losee* are
imee'df “lie county
Wiikesboro and give an e*l-
niate of the damage sustained
in Uio flood, J. B. Snipes,
Wilkes farm agent, said toda.v.
Representatives of the Natloo-
al Red Croes here to'administer
emergency relief to flood Tlctlms
said today that it is important
that persons in the county who
have lost because of the flood and
who are unaible to carry on with
out help register at Red Cross
headquarters immediately.
The Red Cross has estaibllshed
headquarters in the second floor
ot the Landis Tire store building
on C street opposite the postoffice
and representatives are on duty
each day from eight a. m. to six
p. m.
Hundreds In Wilkes have al
ready been given emergency aid
by the Red Cross in the form of
food, clothing and household fur
nishings. The relief work of the
organization has been augmented
by supplies from the Surplus
Commodities Corporation, distrib
uted through the county welfare
office and also by clothing fur
nished the welfare department by
the WPA.
*It was learned today that about
200 additional workers have been
added to WPA rolls in this dis
trict a.s the result of the flood.
Two representatives of the
National Red Cross have arrived
to investigate reports of need in
homes throughout the county and
the organization has given assur
ance that emergency needs be
tween what must be secured and
what the flood stricken can do
tor themselves will be met. Al-
Area To Get
OffMaia of the Great North-
weaten Fob- aBMauced -today
rh«t the' 1940 exhlbltioa would
be.held M uanal, although sev-^
eti*I bnildlDga on the fair-
gitoniidB were washed away by
high water.
Contracts for frro acts, fire
works and midway attractions
were signed several months
ago, fair offidais state.
Plans are now being made
to charge only a small gate ad
mission with stage acts and
fireworks free to all attending
the program.s each afternoon
and night.
Commission Rules
In Favor Jobless
h Test Case Here
Over i,000 Industrial Em
ployes Here Are Affect
ed By The Ruling
I Raleigh.—Thousands of North
I Carolina industrial emipioyees.
I thrown out of work by floods that
i heavily damaged factory build-
.Ings and machinery, will 'be eligf-
(tle for benefits to jobless under
two policy - shaping decisions
handed down yesterday by the
I Stale Unemployment Compensa
tion Commission.
I Charles G. Powell, chairman of
I the commission, estimated that
! 1,000 to 1,500 workers In North
’■Wiikesboro alone may draw un-
[employment compensation under
! yesterday’s rulings directly af-
Citizen* Asked To Urge Con-)fe«‘‘"e ""'y ‘^ree employees. ,
, D,. r'I Powell’s “guess" wa.s that 7,-
* j r, their jobs In North
Of Flood Dam |carolina factories as a result of
floods. Workers would be eligible
- - - for U. C. C. checks it the “evl-
proposal to erect a flood control game” as that pre-
Interest In Dam
Proposal Here Is
Definitely Up
w WXV.V.V zv —- - aence is me same" as luai pre-
dam on the Yadkin about one gented at North Wiikesboro, he
mile west of Wiikesboro has vast-
though no exact figures were giv
en out. It was learned today that
the Red Cross has already spent
ly increased since the flood ot
last week, whloli caused damage
of several imilllon dollars along
the valley of the Yadkin in
Wilkes. •
A dam on the Yadkin was con
tained in a flood control project
which was once submitted to con
gress and the proposal advanced
far enough for a survey to be
made two years ago. It was estl-
■■‘slent
Cragan On Public
Relations Group
Of The N. C. E. A.
renkfliA _ _ _
; Supplies are being purchased lo
cally and with whatever firm the
recipient chooses.
Reports on registrations are
varied and interesting, giving a
[cross section of the general pic-
i ture of flood damage. Applica
Itioiis for aid did not reach head
quarters in any substantial mini
flood would cost six million dol
lars.
A request that interested citi
zens make their desires relative
to the construction of a flood con
trol dam known to congressmen
and senators was made in a meet
ing of business men held here la.st
week.
l eis from rural parts of Wilke.
Paul S. Gragan
of North Wiikesboro schools, has
been appointed on the Public Re
lations co.mmittee of the North
Carolina Education Association.
until this week. Application.s are
superintendent being made on the bas.s of man}
circumstances, all the way from
total destruction of homes to
crop damage or los.s of income.
The Red Cross appreciates the
District Meeting
Of Masons Friday
District Depriy Grand .Master
J. W. Nichols has announced that
a district meeting of Masons will
1 lie X-Zf |-
services of women of the city ty j be held at the city hall here on
said.
The ruling in the North Wilkea-
boro flood case was made on pe
titions for claims brought by
Paul N. Luffman, William H.
Bryant and Allle McGlamery, who
were employed respectively before
the North Wiikesboro flood by
the American Furniture Com
pany, Oak Furniture Company
and Wilkes Hosiery Mills.
In order to meet the requlre-
_MM»7n»J||>:shits :hwr;that -pr*-
vents persons who lost their job*
from catastrophes from collecting
payments, the commission held
that the floods cea.sed to be the
‘immediate" cause of the three
men’s unemployment after Au
gust 15, the day the waters re
ceded..
One of the three claims brought
in North Wiikesboro involved a.
plant destroyed by fire during the
flood. The commission ruled that
a single fire could not be con
strued as a “catastrophe.’’
Similar I'.earings will be held itt
Roanoke Rapids on Friday, Pow
ell said.
!! His appointment to membership working In the emergency kitch-1 Friday night, August 23, eight
.Mullis, With a companion, was
driving ea.st and was blinded, he
said, by undimmed lights ot a
passenger bus and was prevented
from seeing the youth in lime to
axpld striking him. Lonnie Evans,
another CCC youth, dashed to the
edge of the road, escaping injury.
Mullis, engaged in repairing pow-
« lines at Elkin feiied by the
•pod. remained to offer every
awistance at the hospital.
In an inve.stigation of the trag
edy by officers of Yadkin county
and of the state highway pa
trol, no charges were preferred
against Mullis, the accident ap
parently being unavoidable.
The victim is an orphan, a na
tive of Parsonsville. Wilkes coun
ty 18 miles from North Wilkes-
lo'ro He had been with the camp
■'three months. His nearest rela
tives are an aunt. Mrs. -Alice
» Spears, and two brothers, ol Par-
■ Bonvllle.
Funeral and burial services
«• were held Wednesday at 2 o clock
Hill church.
Wr.
iintii it could be tested and aiia-
lysen.
Telephone Service
Is Being Restored
Wiikesboro To Get Service
Today; Three Crews Are
Working On Task
imgfarner Gets
Postmaster’s Job
At Wiikesboro
Washington, Aug. 13. The
senate confirmed today the nom
ination of Millard F. Bumgarner
u noetmaster at WUkesboro, N.
8 0 and WllUam F. Van Hv as
Telephone service is being re
stored on all parts of the North
Wiikesboro branch of the Cen
tral Electric and Telephone com
pany, Gextrge K.-unedy, local man
ager, said today.
A temporary long distance cir
cuit was strung across the Yadkin
here last Wednesday evening a.s
soon as flood waters receded but
the town of Wiikesboro had been
without telephone service until
this afternoon. Difficulty in lo
cating cable caused some delay
and a substantial amount was fin
ally found in New York City.
Three trucks from branches of
the company in Virginia are as
sisting the local repair crew.
The tamporary lines were set
up to Elkin Monday and, the Jet
terson toll line was temporarily
repaired Sunday.
Total damage by the flood to
the system here was estimated a!
from $6,000 to $6,000.
sons affected by the flood.
The cunclusion reached in this
matter was that: from 60 to 70
per cent of the corn in tVIlkes
county. 10 per cent of the peas,
25 per cent of the b-^nns. 60 to
7 0 per cent of meadows. 10 per
cent pastures, and one ner cent
of the tobacco was affected by
the recent flood. A re.soliition
was drawn up, which reads as
follows:
“We, the undersigned officials
and citizen.s of Wilkes county, do
hereby respectfully request the
assistance of the A.AA and the
North Carolina Extension Service
in having the federal government
to declare Wilkes county to be
in a flood zone and qualify as
many farmers as are eligible to
receive a direct grant ot assist
ance from the Federal Govern
ment.
“All crops along the Yadkin
River and most of the tributaries
i], Wilkes County have .been sub
merged by water, and as a result
hundreds of tenant tanners in onr
county arc left with no food,
feed, or provisions to carry them
through the winter months”.
The resolution was signed by
J. B. Snipes, county a'’° ’t; J- M
German, chairman, AAA county
conini.ttee: ''M. F. A.bsher, chair
man. county itibard of coinmlssion-
ersf P. W. Edwards, district sup
ervisor, Tri-Creek soil conserva
tion service.
Copies of this resolution were
forwarded to: Senator Robert R.
Reynolds, R. L. Doughton, chair
man, V/ays and Means Commit
tee; Crongressman W. O. Burgln,
and Dr. I. O. Shaub. director.
North Carolina Elxtenslon Service,
The proposed raattreA project
was discussed at length by Dis
trict Agent O. F. McCrary, and
Northweatem District Home Dem
onstration Agent, Anamerle Ar-
ant, 'With the committeemen. It
was agreed upon aaid approved,
and the organisation will fee set
up and put Into action as soon as
possible. « '
on the important committee of in. at relief headquarters and I o'clock,
the association was announced other points. Appreciation 1^ also Features of the meeting
by S' G Hawfield president. expressed for all donations and include moving pictuics of the
^The first meeting of the Public for the splendid services rendered Masonic and Eastern Star home
Reluons commUteVwill he held by the Boy Scouts and the G.ri at Greens,mro and the Masonic
Mrs. John R. Leigh, of
if b«r«i vlzitlng
— «ivi
JoA 01fl» ^ -I, .
- - r
It was learned here today frosg
B. O. Gentry, manager of tha
North Wiikesboro office, that
claims of persons out ot work be
cause of t,ie flood will be dated
of Friday, August 16, and all.
On September 14.
Scouts ot North WUkesboro.
orphanage at Oxford.
SEARCHING FOR BODY OF SLIDE VICTIM
these claimants are asked to re
port on Friday of each week.
.According to the usual proceed-
11 re, those who have not already
had a two-weeks waiting period
this year may draw benefits for
the week ending Septem'ber 5 and
may receive their first check tha
following week.
Train Service
Resumed Here
On Wednesday
Tracks Repaired In One
Week, Much Earlier Than
After The 1916 Flood
• ■■
In. the above scene men are shown in
a ravine-''fm ..the headwaters of Stony
Pork near Highway 421 searching for •
bodies of persons, skilled in a slide near
Deep Gap. The "picture.was made Sun-;,
day afternoon alMut the time the body
of Johnnie SiiFas foun^t^f “
Hendrix, several miles below. Only one
of the eight persons killed in the slides
in that area is unaccounted for, that be
ing Mrs. Iona Miller Bumgarner. Note^
the presence of a dog, wbiw was used to'
- •>*
-A--;
Train service was resumed be
tween North Wiikesboro and Win-
3ton-Sklerti yesterday after being
out exactly one week as tlie result
if the disastrous flood on tha
Vadkln last Wednesday.
Resumption of service "as
nuch earlier than following the
lood of 1916. However, the rail-
nad bridges were not destroyed
’lis time and only track repnjr*
were needed.
Passengers on yesterday’s t'rain
were Milas Jones, Earl Edwards
and Doughton Eller, of Ronda,
who made the round trip specifi
cally to view flood damage seen*
along the Yadkin.
'Meanwhile the highway sltoar
tlon remained the same as far
opened and closed roatea wera
concerned. Large erfw* of
and tiachlnefy art'Working con- ,
sUntly on the mfin routes rla**tf^>
in this part of ,tke state.
Highway CommiairtQBer -J,. O.
Haekett and Di'vMop
Stewart went tb-ltaletigh .
terday to confer glj
elsUi and departijp^H^
^ — tt#« to repair aa^ 'r^^sfcflkb
faciUtRte the search, (Staff photo by ji|of .^oad* aad^hridfes loptius
DWi^t tlicho^).^
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