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'7 J0lfRNAI^P^*rRf6T."HAft ar News Hamburg Is Hit " By R.A.F.’s New, Powerful Bombs |feS«INaTHE •‘STATE OF iPlLKES’T'FORSQViER^TmRTY-THraiB YEARS VOL. X} Ku0Hj>n«*l Mon«i. '' -tni rt'ili ■“’Ihvj* \ k K- P- I London.—The R. A. F. diunp- od cargoes of Britain’s powerful sew bombs on HamtAirg, Ger many's biggest port and second city. Saturday night In a raid which one pilot said left a half- mile area “a huge, heaving mass like a volcanic eruption.” The air ministry spid an assault almost as violent was made on the big German shipbuilding yards at Bremerhaven and ' that other R. A. F. units pounded -Smden and Cuxhaven in Ger- naany, Le Havre, France; and Ilmuiden, The Netherlands. “Berlin, Kiel and Bremen al ready have felt the force of our latest and most powerful bombs,” the air ministry said. “Now Ham burg has experienced the devasta tion which they can cause.” One participating pilot brought back this account: “I had with me one of the pow erful bombs, and after it burst I Jurors Are Drawn For Federal Court To Begin May 19th Mother Judge Johnson J. Hayes To Preside Over Regular May Term Here Jurors have been drawn for the May term of federal court to con vene in Wllkesboro on Monday, May 19. Judge Johnson J. Hayes will preside over the term, which will j try cases originating in Wilkes. Ashe, Alleghany and Watauga counties. Jurors were drawn from the counties as follows; Wilke.s—George Poplin. Hon da: Z. O. Eller, P. E. Dancy, T. could 'see a circle of red and on ' Haynes, B. H. Wood and H. H. could se 4 HUtance Jennings, North Wllkesboro: Jake the rim of 1 . Qu.te a dutance ^ from the center. I saw buiiaings ' Purlear; H. C. Kilby, North Wil- **K*T\t*Jo lieen on 31 i kesboro; Isom Coleman. Cycle; “Although I C. Foster, Purlear; D. C. =te- raids I have never seen anvinine to match the effect of this bomb. ' Prime Minister Hails U. S. War Assistance London. hastian. Hays: A. M. Holbrook. Abshers; Paul Church, North Wllkesboro; Edgar German, Boomer; R. L. Profit, Goshen; Roy Bumgarner, Wllkesboro R-1; Wlater Blackburn, Walsh; H. R. -Prime Minister Win-, BjUjngs. Traphill; Sam Triplett, ston Churchill, announcing evacu-' py,.)pg,.. Elhern Brown, Hays, ation of the British army from, Charles F. Francis, Greece, last night told -Adolf H't'' Q^ssy Creek; Romulus Phillips, ler and his “malignant Huns” I p ^ pare, Wagoner: that Germany's doom is sealed; p Brown now that the I'nited States is pre pared to put vast shipments of i weapons “within reach” of Biit-i ain. , j Creek: S. C. Arnold, Fig; Todd In a scarcely-veiled prediction . prjee. Fig; Meek R. Vannoy, Oval; of S. corvoys, the prime minis-1 Grayson; T. R. ter asserted in a w^rld-circling j i^nslng; Charlie Camp- radio broadcast that he is conf'" | bell. West Jefferson; Ru.ssel I Barr, West Jefferson. Alleghany—Ray V. Sly; Clyde Gentry. West Jefferson; W. M. Souther- For rautusl adraotilil do your boyinr in NoH^ Wilkesboro, tr«d^ eeuMsi^ot. Noc^«ritlia| North Carolina ^ Qiililrui . Two Tied To Wi Arrives in U. S. More FoocliFeed^ Tbeflie of Fanuff Business Man Me^ Maggie Wyatt, Mother, Left Two Tied to Wall, Other In Box, Honae Burned * Three children, helpless be cause they were tied in the home; by their mother, perished Satur-: day noon when the home of Mag-; gie Wyatt, age 26, mother of the' children, burned in the Daylo! community. Maggie Wyatt told Coroner I. M. Myers and Sheriff C. T. Doughton that she tied Jimmie, age four, and Claude, age three, to the wall by a string and placed / the baby, Clora Mae, age two, in J a box before she left the house to ) go two' miles to Daylo postofflce ■ Saturday morning. | When .“he returned two hours 1 later the house had burned down ] and the children had been reduc ed to ashes. The woman told the officers Held At Roaring River Frt« day Night; Over 100 At tend; Goodman Speaks Gen. Wladislau Sikorskl, prime minister of the Independent Polish I uv; n -Mlir t> t^uiU l •-X',- KllUllSSiCr «J1 SSIC lUUC|fC;AlUVU» X WU9U that she had been accustomed tolgovemment in England, and com- iiner- Scene on the deck of the U. S. S. North Carolina.' as the 35,000-toa lease Dixon Wag- battleship was commissioned six months ahead of schedule. Three of th« oner: Walter Halsey, Grassy! battleship's nine 16-inch rifles form an impressive backdrop f»r ^ggp them. ceremonies at Brootlyn, N. Y. The North Carolina is the first of 17 capital ships authorized under the two-ocean navy programs dent that the American people j will not be “frustrated and allow Smith, the nuaterials the.v manufactur-1 j_.ane; Emery Blevins. to the bottom of ed to be sent the sea.” Churchill predicted “fierce and widespread” war in the Med iterranean now that Greece has fallen and warned that the con- ^ flict may sprerd like a ■'^"■eeP''nS i conflagration “to Spain, Moroc-' CO, Turkey and Russia.’’ Sparta: Fred Edwards, Glade Val ley: Carl Hampton, Stratford; A. A. Myers, Sparta. 'Watauga'^ E. Hagamani Beech Creek; M. H. Cornell. Zionville: L. M. Cook. Stony J. E. A'oung, Blowing Rock: Ed Yrtes. Matney; Charles V Nazi Swastika Is Now Over Acropolis iTrivette. Beach Creek: Grady Me- I Neill. Zionville; John W. Hodges, [Boone. Voyne Edmiiisten, Boone; Athens. Adolf Hitler's green- grey coiu|uerors occupied ancient -Athens at 10 a. m. (3 a. m. e.s.t.) yesterday just three weeks after the launching of Germany’s crushing Balkan blit?krieg. and hoisted the -Nazi swastika over the crumbling coUimiLs of the Acropolis. Those who remained of the city’s 700.000 persons greeted the advance guard of the Nazi "pan zer” forces with proud calm as they rode in a mechanized victory- parade past the temples of Athe nian glory that have stood since centuries before Christ. The li st of Britain’s imperial troops had gone, after a valiant rear-guard battle again.-=t over powering odds, and the people had been told to meet the Nazi con querors “rs a people before whose eyes the vaders pass and fade away.’’ “Athenians will meet the Nazi army with a stoic smile upon their lips, knowing that every thing passes away,’’ newspapers* told them. Walter Edminsten, tie Norris. Boone. Boone; Bat- District Junior Meeting Is Held Bradley Dancy Councilor; C. Trustee Of Re-Elected B. Eller Home Judge Sims Tells Fsheiman Is Vice KiWanians Of 5th Chairman Hosiery Column Activities^Makers In Nation Says Subversive People And Organizations Are At Work In Country AtCoB- Judge Frank K. Sims, o^ Char lotte. in rn address Frida v noon vention rational Associa tion of Hosiery Makers Philadelphia. April 24. Constantine of New York; Earl was lotie, in rn anaress rrioak *umii . before the North Wllkesboro Ki- nominated for re-election rs pres- wanis eliih warned of the dan ger of fifth columnists in Anier- elected district Richard Johnston, Robert Taylor In Army Air Corps Richard Johnston and Robert Taylor will leave on Wednesday morning for Camden, S. C„ where they will enter the U. S. Army air corps to become flying cad- After ten weeks at Southern Aviation school at Camden they will be assigned to some field of the U. S. Army air corps. 'They are' prominent young men of this city. Mr. Johnston Is prom inently connected with American Furniture company and Mr. Tay lor is a member of the North Wil- kesboro high school faculty. 2 Morrison Pens Stolen From Home of J. M. McGlamery J. M. McGlamery, Boomer citi zen who for many years has been a regular subscriber of The Journal-Patriot, called at this of fice Saturday snd reported that some one had’ broken Into his home and had stolen two Morri son founUin P«t*- which had bben given him on two separate oecaaiotu with renewal subecrlp- iioMtSkr.tSjet took * tMttle District officers were in the ,lr. O. 1'. -A. M. meeting hed in this city. Bradley Dancy, of North Wil- kesboro. was re-elected district councilor and C. B. Eller, of North Wilkeshoro, was elected trustee for the ' Junior Ordei children’s home at Lexington. Mr. Eller i.s superintendent of Wilkes schools, .Mr. Cooper, of Elkin, was named district recording secre tary with B. F, Bentley, of this city, assistant. T. H. Waller, of North Wllkesboro, was named warden and J. T. Martin, of El kin, chaplain, Speakers at the meeting, which was well attended, included J. L. White, of Oxford, state councilor; Forrest E. Sherrin, state secre tary: and N. Sankey Gaither, of Harmony, past state councilor. Announcement was made that North Wllkesboro council will have an interesting meeting Tues day night In the new lodge hall over Reins-Sturdivant Funeral home. Degree work will he fea tured at the meeting. Parkway Boards For 18 Counties Story. McCoy and Dr. Smith Named For Wilkes On S4-Man Commission Raleigh, April 25.—Governor Broughton today appointed 54 men—three each from 18 western counties—to the Blue Ridge parkway commission. The commission was authorize^ by an act of the 1941 general as sembly in, order to “contact and co-operate with agencies of the federal government In matters at fecting the parkway which He said he “was si* at heart because of the conduions of the world, and ill at ease because of conditions in our o'vn strte and nation.’’ He referred to labor con ditions as being perplexing. He said he feared this country is fol lowing the example of France. In Charlotte, he said, there is a German Bund having regular meetings. The F. B. I. knows the members and where they live hut can do nothing but watch their movements. He recounted an incident of a German named Wagner in Char lotte. who is drawing unemploy ment compensation, having been heard to remark when he srw a, flag passing: “I hope to live to see that thing torn to pieces and when he was taken to tlje police he said that he was drunk and did not know what he wrs say ing. The speaker, whose subject was We Build.’’ said: “We must build from within, and we must ident of the National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers yester day at the opening ses.“ion of the association’s two-day convertion, P. W. Eshelman of No ih Wil- keaboro. N. C., rnd J. J. Kronen- berg of Fort Wayne. Ind., were nominated for vice chairmen. Elected to the board of directors for three year terms were John M. Berry, Rome. Ga., James M. Beverly of Ballston Spa, N. Y., Herbert Jacques of Lowell, Mass., George Szabo of Knoxville. Tenn., and J.-mes M. Weeks, Winslon- Saiem. N. C. District R. A. M. Meeting Thursday Lenoir and Hickory Chap ters To Meet With Local Lodge In New Hall Lenoir and Hickory chapters of R. -A. M. will meet with North Wllkesboro chapter number 7 8 in a dLstrict meeting in North Wil- not'tol'eraTe any interference with kesboro on Thursday, May 1. .. .. V-.l.J p ^ The meeting will tte held in the new lodge hall over Reins-Stur divant Funeral Home, according to the announcement by J. C. Grayson, secretary ’ of the North Wllkesboro lodge. Masonic officials attending the meeting will Include Grand High Priest P. T. Guest and William our defense program. Let us build this government, this country, this citizenship so that no outside interference can tear it down. His address closed with quotation of the poem entitled “The Bridge Builder.’’ The program was in charge ot J C Reins. He presented Bob Scroggins, of Charlotte, who in troduced Judge Sims. At the meeting W. F. Brown lee was a guest of Gordon Finley, ^ F. H. Gray, of Richmond, was a j district are invited to attend. Kuest of Edd Gardner; J. A. Arey was a guest of J. B. Snipes, E B Page, of Raleigh, was a guest of R. G. Finley: Boh Scroggins end Judge Sims, of Charlotte, were guests of J. C. Reins. An excellent report was made on the directors meeting, which was held on Thursday night at Hotel Wilkes with Gordon Fin ley as host. Ritchie Smith, grand secreUry, who will be the principal speak- ;*'"‘“"‘hrbe arreted and held ers. All Royal Arch masons in the investigation: tying the children in the house when she left so that they would not get out and get hurt. She said that she had no one to leave with them and that neighbors would (Some of the neighbors later told a reprensen- trtive of The Journal-Patriot that they had repeatedly offered to keep the children when it was necessary for the mother to be away). Charlie Wyatt, a brother of Maggie Wyatt and an uncle of the fire victims, was the first to reach the scene of the fire. His home was about 300 yards from Mag- gle’^i ,lU)0t8 >Aid h*? saw the .snt^e , from‘where he was working. He' ran to the burning structure hut found the walls and rcaf falling in. He said he almost knew the children were In there hut he wa= powerless to do anything about it. The sheriff and coroner were called and when they reached the scene the fire had died down somewhat and they located the charred remains ot the bodies of the three children. Heads, legs and arms were totally burned and only charred bones were found. The remnants of the body of Claude, age three, were found at a place which corresponded to where the mother said he was tied. Bo4ie.s of the oldest and younges- were found at the kitch en range in another part of the house. Officers believed that Jim mie had been able to break loose from his bonds and had tried to take the baby out through the kitchen thit was unable to make their escape before the flames trapped them. Neighbors helped officers gath er the charred bodies, which Were placed in a box and buried Srturday afternoon in the Wyatt family graveyard on the hill a- bove the house. The house w'hich burned was the old home place of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alex Wyatt, parents of Maggie Wyatt. She ^rd li^d there alone with the children since her brother who formerly ’Ived there moved away two years The sheriff and coroner left the mother at the home of a neighbor Saturday ‘ afternoon. Later Coroner Myers conf^red with Solicitor Avalon E. Hall, who advised thaJ a warrant charging the woman with the 4eath of the chldren be Issued mander-in-chief of the free Polish army, shown on his arrival In Wash- ington, D. C. Work Progressing On New Structure Woodlawn Section Community House May* Be Completed In Month, Pro ject Foreman Says Superior Court Convenes Today Square And Round Dance Friday Night American Legion and Auxil iary are spon.»ors of square and r ^ has round dancing at the Legion rnd *been under construction in west- Auxiliary ctutohonse on Friday ern North Carolina for aeveral night, nine o’clock. Script will be years,” 50 cents per ecnple and an en- ’Th.e act antboriaes the Govenir joyable cnrenlng Is. aawiped-^ Judge Phillips Is Presiding Over April Term For Trial Civfl Cases pending further Investigation A warrant was Issued Sunday and she was arrested and placed In Jril. , A hearing has been set for Tuesday morning, ten o’clock, h®' fore Magistrate R. C. Jennings In Wilkeshoro. „ The mother said sh® did not know what started the fire. She eald that when she left the house there were a few live coals In the open fireplace. April term pf Wilkes superior court convened in 'Wllkesboro to day with Judge F. Donald Phil lips presiding. The term will be through two weeks and Is for trial of cItII eases. A calendar for the term ira» made ont several days ago by the W^heh bar association. Notice To Feofde On R.F.D. Routes “Ob, doctor,” sa^d the jrauag lady, “wHl, the scar7.*SdwT?,jj^|;S- Mrs. Sallie Vannoy. postmaster at Reddies River. caUs attention to the fact that next week, Mhy 6 - through 10, will bie > palnt-up and stralghten-ap week on rural mall routes and all. patrons are uk*»a to paint and'stijtghten-Bp! construction of a community house in the Woodlawn commun ity ot the eastern part of North Wilkeshoro. The structure is being erected PS a WPA project, sponsored by North Wilkeshoro. However, the greater part of the sponsor’s share ot the cost. $1,200 was raised by private contributions. The total cost of the project was estimated at $3,500. Lot on which the new building will be situated was donated by N. B. Smithey. Churches of North Wilkeshoro started and backed the drive to erect the community building. .Need for a building became evi dent last summer when over 100 children gathered on Sunday aft ernoons for an inter-denomina tional Sunday school conducted under the trees by local church leaders. The first floor, of concrete construction, has already been i built. The building will be 30 by | 42 feet. The second floor will he of frame construction. P. G. Smithey is foreman of the pro ject. which may be completed within 30 days. More than 100 farmers, buai- nesa m~en and guests at the an. nosl Wilkes Farmer-Businem M*n banquet at Roaring River Friday night heard John W. Goodman, assistant director ot extension service of State College, say that with the food and feed program now bblng put on North Carolina agriculture is entering a new era. The banquet was the most suc cessful of its kind ever held in Wilkes. Farmers were hosts to business men for the banquet, purpose of which is to promote goodwiil and better understand ing between rural and town peo ple. J. M. German, chairman of the Wilkes Triple A committee, was toastmaster. The program open, ed with singing of “.America,’’ and invocation by Rev. R. R. Crater. Music was furnished by Curley Street colored quartet. Each farmer introduced his guests. I. awrence Miller, Triple A sec retary, welcomed ladies to the banquet and response was by Mrs. J. B. Snipes. J. B. Snipes, county agent, in troduced the speaker. Mr. Goodman said that farmers and business men are usually called separate classes of people but the farmer is very much in busine-is and there is a close eco. nomic relationship. A greater part of urban people, he said, wore reared in the country. Agriculture is taken too much for granted, the speaker said, and proceeded to explain that Wilkes Youth Is Marble Champion Sherrill Pendry, Mountain View Student, Takes Championship Winston-Salem. — Freckled faced Sherrill Pendry, seventh- grade Mountain View School pu pil of Wilkes county, put his trained thumb and accurate eye Into action Saturday at Central Park to capture tournament fln- also the Journal and Sentinel marble tournament and won the right to compete In the southeast ern finals at Asheville. Matching shots with six other countv champions, from Davie, Forsyth, Surry, Rocklilgham. Yadkin and Stokes, the 13-year- old crack mlbster found his toughest opposition in Forsyth’s champion. Jack McHone Jr., who won five straight games, in cluding one -with Pendry, In the round robin series in which every contestant met the other, once. Bach boy competing Is the champion of his resipectlve coun ty. ’The games were played In twosomes and every boy played the other once In round robin fashion. McHone and Pendry -were forced to play off the tie'In two other games. Church, member of board of edu cation; J. B. Carter, manufactur er: Attorney T. E. Story and AU torney W. H. McElwee. R,M. Brame Home Damaged Sumky Maybe you can’t make a silk pune ont of a aow’s, tar, but a stocking cwtalnly Improves A ontt. 'v... - ■'‘i'-4, , Fire Sunday morning did ex tensive damage to the home of Dr. R. M. Brame on the corner ot 9th and F streets here. The fire occured about nine o’ clock. Its origin WS8 not defialte. iy determined, although It ap peared to have originated on the back side of the house on tha first floor. Firemen extinguished tha flames but parts of the' bnildiiiv were badly burned inside and tar- ntohinga were badly damagedvli^ ’ fire, anuika and water. Some insuraaoa waa canipd the property. ft v whtcY do“n5t^»k* shflliWBl come to maintain the high stand ard of living desired. He spoke of the natonal crisis which he described as imminent and urged that farmers he not discouraged because discouraged people are easily defeated. Ho urged that farmers produce their own food and feed as nearly as possible, produce nntritiou.s foods which are conducive to good health, and thus he prepared for whatever period of emergency or readjustment the future may hold. He said that 4 5 per rent of the people of the nation are under nourished. yet a greater part ot those have ample food. About all farmers have gardens, many have cows, but less than one-third have sufficient cows to provide ade quate milk. Good .'Oil, abounding in proper minerals and plant foods. wiB produce good foods to grow vigorous bodies and alert minds. Speaking ot Wilkes, he said the county has great resources, good land which responds won derfully well to good treatment, and great people. The need, agri culturally speaking, is dependable sources of cash income. He urged soil improvement, greater livestock production, more wide spread poultry production and better use of resources which the county has. In a very few yc'-irs, he .said, Wilkes farmers can dou ble the agricultural income of Wilkes county. After his address .short talk* were made by the following; J. A. Arey, dairy specialist; Tom Cornwall and W. H. White, mem bers of the state Triple A com mittee; Miss Elizabeth Williama, home demonstration agent; T. W. Ferguson, Orange master: R. R. I
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