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Revolts May Prove
Serious Trouble
For Axis
Rioting in Sarajevo and Bel-
KHMle, TugosUvia, and in French
STTla, offered serious esiatlng and
potential trouble for the axis last
night and brongbt a curious echo
of old events that started and
changed the course of the last
great war.
IH Syria where heavy detach
ments of the old French middle-
_4aatem. CMnmand still stand as
the obstacle of a union of the
British African forces with those
of her non-belligerent Turkish
ally twelve perwns were killed
In fighting variously attributed
by French sources to food short
ages, to foreign agents and to
agitation for independence.
In Sarajevo, where the assassi
nation of the Austrian Archduke
Frans Ferdinand set off the long
fire in 1914, was symbolized yes
terday the rebellious anger of
Yugoedavian nationalists against
the forced entry of their country
into Germany’s train. More than
a thousand persons fought with
the i>ollce there.
It was the success of the Brit
ish and the fabulous I.awrence of
Arabia in turning the Middle East
against the central powers, and
specifically the Turks, who then
were Britain’s enemies, that had
an enormous and perhaps decisive
importance in the -Allied victory
of 1918.
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VOL. X^IV.INo, 1
Sale Easter Seals
Benefit of Cripples
To Begin March 31
Coanty Organization With
J. B. Williams As Chair
man Announced Here
Germans Lose
Ships In Air,
Naval Battle
liondon.—Battles between Brit
ish and German naval and air
forces in the North Sea in which
two German military supply ships
were sunk and several Nazi tor
pedo boeits “probably’’ were de
stroyed were reported last night
In British official communiques.
A German tanker and a Nazi
supply ship totaling 14.000 tons
were said to have been sunk in
the North Sea in British airplane
and submarine attacks.
Light British warships, pre
sumably destroyers, were said in
“t,h~^saWTTJifty comtntmltrae "^o
have driven off a .series of at
tacks on British convoys in the
North Sea in the last few nights
by Nazi E-Ikv ts, of swift tori>edo-
carrying craft.
Several of tb E-boat.s were hit
and several pro-.ahly failed to re
turn to their base, the admiralty
said, while “no damage or ca.s-
ualties were sustained either by
his majesty's ships or merchant
ve.ssels in the convoys.”
Seizure Of Plant
Looms Behind
Ultimatum
W-shington. —G ’ v e r n m e n t
commandeering of the .Allis-Chal-
mers .Manufacturing ('ompany,
Milwaukee, Wis.. under pi nt-
seizure provisions of the selective
service act became a possibility
last night when defense chieftains
called for a quick end of the 64-
day-old strike there.
Secretary of the Navy Frank
Knox and Director General Wil
liam S. Snudsen of the office of
production management, served
what amounted to an ultimatum
demanding that the company-
working on vital defense con
tracts—and C. I. O. Local I nion
2-18 of the Vnited Automobile
Workers resume operations im
mediately.
“We can no longer wait for set
tlement of the strike by ordinary
meana.” the two officials tele
graphed Max W. Babb, president
of the company, and Harolo
Christoffel. head of the union.
“We must ask you to notify your
entire force to report forj'’®"
and sUirt operations immediate-
'’'iore than 7.0C0 Allis-Chal-
n^ers ^vorke.^ walked out after
the company rejected
mands for “union security, Prf^
traoted negotlatioms have failed
to break the deadlock.
The selective service law em
powers the government to draft
recalcitrant industries. The gov
ernment also can remove the
preferential draft status of em
ployees on urgent defense pro
jects If they refuse to co-operate.
Organizalion of the canupelgn
to sell Easter seals and tJius raise
funds to aid underprivileged and
crippled children In Wilkes was
announced today.
J. B. Williams, who heads the
underprivileged child commit
tee of the North Wilkeshoro Ki-
wanis club. Is county . chairman
and T. E. Story Is treasurer.
Plans call for a more extensive
campaign than has ever been
carried out here previously.
p, W. Flshelman Is chairman
of the Personal Solicitation and
Ordnance Sale committee and
other members are R. G. Finley,
J. R. Hix and A. F. Kilby.
T. E. Story and J. C. Reins
compose the mailing committee.
Paul S. Cragon. city school sup
erintendent. and C. B. Eller, head
of the Wilkes school system, will
can-y the seal sale into the
schools.
Mrs. T. A. Finley heads the
Lilly Parade Committee and the
other members are W. P- Grier.
Jr., and Mrs. E. ft. ftelms. A big
parade is planned by this com
mittee for April 5th.
W. D. Halfacre is publicity
chairman and other committee
members with him are Dwight
Nichols, John Sikes and W. E.
Pharr.
The sale of seals will get under
way on March 31 and continue
through Easter Sunday. April 13.
Half of the proceeds of the sale
will remain in the hands' of the
(Coutinued on page eight)
AppOmtBMBtg
Welfare Board To
Be Made By April 1
State Board To Name One,
Commissioners Or.e and
Two Will Name Third
Re-appointnicnts to the M ilkes
county welfare board will he neces
sary before the first of Apiil un
der new legislation enacted by the
I'.Ml General Assembly, although
ft is possible no change may be
made in the present board setup.
Chairman of the local board now
is P. .1. Bramo, and Dr. J. G.
Bentley and \V. K. SiniUiey are
the other two members.
One appointment is made by the
State Board of Cliarities and Pub
lic Welfare and one appointment
by the Wilkes county commis
sioners with the two appointees se
lecting the third person with whom
they will be associated in super
vising the It'cal welfare program.
Before this year the commis
sioners con d not name one of their
(Continued on page eight i
Using Stones To
Construct A Silo
D. B. Swaringen Construc
ting DeLuxe Silo For
Herd Dairy Animals
Singing Sunday
At Little Rock
Regular Fifth Sunday singing
of the Southside Singing aswei-
atlon win fte held with Little
Bock Baptist church near Boomer
AJifc Sunday. March 30. Attorney
J. McDuffie, of Wilke»be;-5.
chairman, said today.
The ringing will begin at ten
m. and continue through the
day. -AJl ringing classea are inrlt-
ed to attaad and take 1*^1“
duif'ii alngiag-
Schools Will Take
Part in Spelling
Class In Madm
Contest This Year UpCrAbOl]! To Gct
‘Diplomas’ Friday
Wilkes county schools will
furnish an entrant in the North
west Spelling Bee to be put on
in Winston-Salem by The Journ
al-Sentinel.
Schools will hold contests to se-
a winner and a county con-
will be held soon to select
bounty’s entrant ftn* the hlg
^qpelUng bee in Winston-Salem.
The prise there will ibe a free trip
to Washington, D. C., to take
part in the national contest,
which will have $500 as first
prise.
Thirteen Boys WBI Complete
Course; Other Courts
To Begin Soon
Albright Talks
Of Usefuhess Of
NCSES Office
State Director Spends Wed
nesday Here With Lo
cal Branch Service
An impressive view of one of the “class rooms’’ at the Academy of Aeronautics, LaGuardia airport, New
York, showing some of the students of aviation mechanics at work in a mass welding session. The school is
ctviljfiiis and army men. About 300 enlisted men wiU take the course.
Dinner Speaker
Democrats Ask
Governor to Name
Hackett On Group
Builds Machine?
County Executive Committee
Members In Meeting
Here Saturday
giegie l^ dooar,.
D. B. Swariiigon, who lives on a
farm in the Traphill community of
Wilkes county and boards at the
same place, is making good use of
stones which formerly infested his
fields.
He has grathered up the stone.s.
many of them of fl'nt types, and
is making them ii.t;> a s’onc .silo
beside his modern dairy barn.
Work is in progiess on the silo
now. Its bottom is ten feet below
the earth’s surface and its top will
be 30 feet above when completed
making the depth of the silo 40
feet.
Its outside measurement is 36
feet in circumstances and it will
be ten feet across on the inside.
Wilkes County Agent J. B. Snipes
has estimated that it will have a
capacity of about 100 tons of feed
when completed.
Cement is being used to hold the
stones together and the silo will
be a very attractive addition to the
farmyard as well as being highly
practical and useful. A retaining'
wall of the same material has been
constructed along the bank be
tween the silo and dairy bam.
Mr. Swaringen now has a herd
of 25 ( 'emseys but plans to ex
pand his cattle production to in-
dude a herd of herefords for the
if ,
Senator Scott W. Luen.s of
llliiMiis, prominent It mentioned
for tlie Deinoeralie noiiiiiiation
for president last year,
who will deliver I lie principal
address at the aiiinial .Inekson
Day Dinner in Kaleigh on Fri
day niglit, April 4. .A World
War veK-raii and laiinrli friend
of the fimiier ami Ial>or in
Congivs.s, the senator was a
staiiiicli siipjiortrr ttf Hie “aid
to Briiain" hill Ihcl recently
I'eeaine law. ViKioiial D‘!ti'>cra-
ti- t'hairnian Fdwaril -I. Flynn
will also attend the dinner.
Robt. Wood Finley
Class Salutatorian
Roihert Wood Finley, son of
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Finley, has
■'peA elected salutatorian to rep
resent the cla.s.s of David.son Gol-
le?e in the cl; ss day exercises
this spring.
A resolution by the Wilkes
County Democratic executive
pommittee endorain.s J. Gordon
Hackett for another term on the
»ta(e highway commission was-j
R. Mayne Albright, director of
the North Carolina State Em
ployment Service, said here yas-
terday while on a visit to the
North Wilkosibbro branch that
each community should be inter
ested In full registration of avail
able skilled labor because the a-
mount of skilled labor available
will be considered In location of
defense Industries.
He made that comment in talk
ing of the drive now being made
to secure a full registration of
skilled labor, saying that the re
sults of the survey of skilled la
bor will be turned over to the
Defense Commission.
While here the state director
said he was well pleased with the
way the 'public Is using this
tranch the employment
Thirteen young men will have
completed the first defense riaaa
here on Friday night and will b«
presented appropriate certitt.
cates.
The class in machine operatlom
at Meadows Mill company plant
will have completed 12 weeks of
training Friday night. All thir
teen who began in the class re
mained to complete the course
under direction of E. C. Johnson,
instructor and plant superinten
dent.
The 13 to receive certificates
will be Burton Carlton, James
Harvel, Granville Myers, Glenn
Rearls, Dean Miller, J. D. Morri
son, Russel Absher, Edd Miller,
Walter Miller, Bill Reynolds, Bill
Tran.=ou, Nelson Osborne, Brico
Severt.
Their names will be registered
at the employment service here
as available for any openings in
that trade 'which may occur.
Plans were announced for be
ginning of another class in ma
chine operation as soon as pos
sible and young men betweeu
ages of 17 and 24 who are not in
school and who wish to enroll
j^hould register at the employ
ment service office here between
hours of 8:30 a. m. and 12:30
p. m. on the earliest convenient
date. All who want to may reg
ister and if the nunvber is too
large for one class a second may
be started.
Those who register are asked
to meet at North Wllkesboro
school On Monday, March 31,
held
ur p. .m. Classes
ton.
D.e m o c r a t B
repre^enling
na.iority of the county’s precincts
gathered here on S: turday and
uuhiisiaslieally recommended to
Governor Broughton that Com-
iiissioner Hackett he retained on
lie highway commission.
The rp.soliitinns pointed out hi.“
'utirin.g efforts in behalf of bet-
roads and also cited his rec
>rd in the Democratic party
The resolution follows:
“This resolution. m de thi-
lie 2‘ind day of March. 19 11. h'
•|i;' Democratic Executive Goni
■nittee of the Goiinty of Wilkes
in iiieeiiiiE duly c lied and as
senihled at the Wilkes Hold ii
North Wilke.-'lioro, North (’aro
!ina.
"Wit nesseth:
“'I'hat, whereas. It has .been
ailed to the attention of tii'
■oinniittee Hi t Mr. .1. Gordo'
'ac!;eit’s term as a member o
ii" Si'-e Highway and Public
.Vork.s Gommission will soon ex
ire: and whereas, this Commit
ee is composed of citizens and
Democrats repre-entliig each am'
"very lowiiship and votln.g pre
incf in Wilkes County, and i-
f, .miliar with the very, ver^
splendid work and Service which
Mr. Hackett, in his official c,apac
Ity. has rendered to each nook
(Contiaued on page eight)
tkivernor .1. .M. Brou(fhton,
The (’!-arlotte News, is
hiiilding a political machine to
his own liking in North Caro
lina, having exercised complete
control over the legislature.
BroughtonWelding
Iron-Clad Machine
(By C. A. PAUL, Charlotte
News Staff Writer)
RALEIGH — A political
machine a.s great, if not
«r eater, than the famed Sim
mons machine, is now under
on.sti'uction in the office of
Governor Broughton and if
he puts it in high gear he
will doubtless land in the
United States Senate, taking
the plac« of Senator Josiah
William Bailey.
And he will name his suc
cessor and put either State
(Continued on page eight)
BUILDS STONE SILO WITH 100 TONS CAPACITY
..iota B.
Gentry, manager. He also compli
mented the new quarters for tlie
offices here.
Talking of the work in the
state, he said that North Ocrolina
is the only state where the em
ployment service had been able to
handle the labor situation entire
ly for defense construction Pro
jects He said that over 100.00(1
placements were, made in the
past .six months end the service
ha.s a larger active file than when
the projects began, Indic^iting
that the latlor situation can he
handled for future projects. He
urged that unemployed persons,
especially those who are skilled
in any trade, register with the
nearest liranch of the employ
ment service or renew' previous
regi-tralion if made over 60 days
ago. in order that the employ
ment service might have a com
prehensive picture of the labor
supply situf'lion.
to'ten p. m., for twelve weeks.
The defense classes here are
carried out under sponsorship of
the city schools system. M. Bry
an Collins, industrial e.rts in-
stnictor, is supervisor of the
’lasses.
Greek Relief Fund
Being Raised Here
Theatres Will Accept And
Forward Donations; Jars
Placed In Stores
Tax Penalty Will
Increase After 1st
Taxpayers Urged To Pay
Now and Save Amount of
Increase In Penalty
Witli many individuals and
Imsiness firms liackin.g the move
ment, a drive has been sU'.rted
here to raise Greek relief funds.
The theatres here, .\lten and
Lilierty, have consented to accept
contriiiulions and forward them
at once to Greece to aid that na
tion in its fight for existence.
Those 'wishing to contribute may
onrry or mail their contribu
tions of any amount to Liberty
Theatre, or Allen Theatre. North
Wilkes'boro.
Jars to receive donations have
also been placed at a number of
' business plac&s in North Wilkes-
boro.
barf mmket
J. B. Snipes, Wilkes farm agent, left, is shown
here disouring with D, W. SwaringMi, farmy .w
' the Trzpbiir coiMnaility in Wilhipj tie nteWte;
tioa of t^ •t4Nw silo, on.tiw fn—dfttte sC
'i, ^
they are seated.. .TJis.dlb wtf
sndvtfh&Y
nnt«
County authorities called at
tention of taxpayer.^ this week tr
the fact that the penalty on un
paid county taxes will increase
to two and one-half per cent after
April 1.
It was pointed out that pay
ment of county taxes on or he
fore the first day of April will
result In a saving of the amonni
of the lncrea.se in penalty ant
all who can are urged to pa,^
now because the county needs th
money.
Attention is also called to tin
fact that penalty on unpaid towr
taxes for North Wilkesboro and
Wilkeslwro will also increase
after April 1.
One Carolina muscadine vine has
brought joys and gotri food to 16
generations of American freemen
and promises fruitfulness for ano
ther 300 years
M. R. Hamby Home
Damaged By Fire
The home of M. R. Hamby in
this city was badly damaged by
fire early Tuesday mornnig and
the furnishings in the home were
destroyed. Origin of the fire is
not kno-wn. The house wa in
flames when Mrs, Hamby awoke.
Cripple Clinic
On April 10th
The county health department
has announced that the April
clinic for crippled children w;ll
be held at the Wilkes hospital
on April 10. nine a. m.. and asks
that people of the county coope
rate in providing means for crip
pled •and deformed people, es
pecially children, to reach the
clinic for tree examination and
advice relative to treatment.
Sunday School Association To
Meet At New Hope Church
AH Mlarionarv Baptist church-1 others who are Intei^^
e. m the Bntshy Mountain Asst, cordially inv ted to aUend^
arc
elation have been invited to send
delegations Sunday afternoon,
Mrrch 30. to the New Hope
^tl^urch. near Pnrlear, for the pur-
p«M of organiring a Baptist
School Aaaociation. It is
desired that periore,
tteoaeolfc’-teidiera. ted o^
aeettnf. Afr
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The session will begin at 3 p.
m, and close about 4:16 p. m. An
Interesting program is being.ar
ranged. Kev. E. F. Sullivan, -Of
Hickory, will he the chief speak
er of the afternoon. He ..will dio-
trtbate free mprefnre.' retoriw
to Sunday eehool 'work, to thono
who ite