North Carolina Newspapers

DeniQcimey Noi SiVTtTe In liolation V StMmt^n, V*., M*y 4.—PtmU d«Dt RooMTett aoMfled ;.jUtat U>« American p«ople bad ' toaibbt batora aad wwe "arar -■Taady to flgbt again” tor the ez- i Istenee ot "democracy In the world.” Speaking at the dedication of Woodrow Wilson’s birthplace as a national shiine. Mr. Rooserelt . satd that the world war President ■'had taught, "that democracy coaid not snrrive in isolation.” "We'applaud hij judgment and his faith,’’ he added. ’ ’The Presbyterian manse where Wilson was horn was, the Presi dent said, “a new shrine of free dom." By the act of dedication, he continued, "we are bearing trua witness to the faith that is in us —a simple faith in the freedom of democracy in the world.’’ “It is the kind of faith for which we haye fought before, for ■the existence of which we are ever ready to fight again.’’ Hitler Says Reich Superior To Any Coalition Nations Berlin, May 4.—A cheering relchstag tonl|S>l heard Adolf Hitler pronw:>ce Germany supe rior in power to “any conceiv able coalition’* and declare she will have only one answer to “democratic rgltators” who “threaten to throttle’’ the nasi state. *R^!^ESsw'rHE:;j ten;! I4J E.S Wii cmxUr North ms Contest Tuesday Eie^ll^ Candidates In N^h'Wilkes boro And Ronda Will Have No Opponents Heads r 1 Tuesday, May 6, is municipal election date for the three incor porated towns in Wilkes—>North Wilkesborp, Wllkeshord and Ronr Ida—and .only In Wllkesboro will there be election contests. Hitler’s only reference to the ■United States which, however, W83 not named, came near the end of his speech after he had sailed into British Prime Minister Churchill with vicious rhetoric and. in a review of the Brlkan campaign had put Germany’s loss es In men killed at little more than 1,000. He said, choosing his words with great care: “When today democratic agita tors of a country which the Ger man i>eople never harmed and whose statement that the German Dd .to. do so b an ab- SsandplMta «f'*Adtt« Alberto Lais, HoMaa oaval attache at Washington, | whose recaU was demanded of the Italian govenuasat by the United States.. la. cipnteotloa with the at tempted Babotafe #t Iteliaa ships la American waters. then ' their capitalist th^jre is only one system, ans-wer: “The German people will never again experience such a year as 191S. Iraq Guns Shell Air - Base of British; RAF Lang Will Speak At Wilkesboro Hi Finals Thursday Is State Administrator Of NYA; Fifty-Five Seniors In I94f Class John A. Lang, National Youth Administration administrator in North Carolina, will deliver the commenceunent address in the final program Thursdey night idol Mayor R- T. McNiel is unoppos ed in North Wllkesboro for anoth er term and no opponents filed ageinst the five who filed for commissioners and two for mem bership on the city board of edu cation. In Wilkesboro there are two candidates for mayor , H. A. Cra- nor and L. B. Dula. There are six candidates for the four pieces for commissioner as follows: W. E. Smlthey, James Lowe, Wm. A. Stroud, Dr. G. T. Mitchell, Sher man T. Colvard and George Ken nedy. Voters will select four from the six. Wilkesboro voting will be at the town hall. J. R. Henderson is registrar and Ed Crysel and Charlie Bumgarner are judges. | Voting in town election will be-, gin at 7:00 a. m. and polls will close at 7:00 p. m. North Wilkesboro election place will be at the city hall. The 1 candidates for commissioners are Ralph Duncan and H. M. Hutch ens, members of the present board, and A. F. Kilby, R. G. Finley aiid J. R. Htx. Dr. J. S. Deans and E. C. Johnson are un opposed for meni'bershlp of the board of education. Ronda will have a quiet elec tion with no contests. R. L. Hick- erson is the cand'date for mc.yor and for commissioners are L. E. Dobbins, E. H. Blackburn, O. D. Bentley, F. T. Moore and M. C. Jones. * Oth, 1941 |1.$0 lb the "sSt-ws I*—- ‘^ry^- Ssf^'^-lter 111*dlT5t6maS''eit: high school gprduatlon will 1 pre.sentcd to a ola.ss of 55 sei iors. Date of vraii-i-»M‘'n w®'.. chang ed from Wednesday to Thursday because Mr. La tie wa.= called to Washington. D. C.. e rly this week and could not he present Wednesday. _ - I Seventh grade finals were held Makes Wide Attacks ) Friday night, at which time a London Mav 4,—Iraq has i Patriotic pageant was presented .stopped the flow of oil in the last land . eventh grade diplomas were Harqr Pariier Loses His Life On Swim Party Body Recovered In Catawba After Three and Half Hour Search pipeline to the Mediterranean j P''ea‘‘P‘ed to in; ny who-were pro- old of ed ean from the little kingdom’s rich oil fields. British dispatches #«id to-j night as fighting in the three-day-1 war in Iraq showed no signs | abating. | It Is at Haifa. British-mandat- Palestine. on the Mediterrsn-I that the British fleet in the I near east has received iu /oil supplies. While Irae artillery shelled the British air base at Habbaniyah. 60 miles west of Brghdad, for the third straight day, the deposed regent of Iraq, Emir .\bdul Hah. announced he was preparing to return to Iraq and called on | Iraq troops to return peacefully ‘ to their stations and w-rit for his | restoration of an independent j Iraq constitutional government. | He. issued his proclamatioti in j Palestine. ' [ The British said the shelling of the airport today caused casual ties among non-combatants. moted to high school. Rev. T. Sloan Guy. Jr., pastor of Wilkesboro Baptist church, delivered the baccala u r e c t e sermon at three o’clock on Sun day afternoon. An interesting program o f ^ class day exercises has .been ?r- i ranged for presentation on Tues. day night, eight o’clock. The list of graduates, together with parents’ names, follows: Mae -\nderson, Mr. N. R. An derson: Helen Beamer. Mr. C. W. Beamer; Eunice Baker. Mrs. (Continued on page four) Re-Elect Faculty Wilkesboro School Committee Retains Supt. W. T. Long And Entire Fac ulty For Next Term Liverpool Raid Victim For 4th Straight Night Lndon. May 5.—(Monday 1 Wra. T. laing, district superin tendent, and all members of the ■Wllkesboro school faculty have been elected for another year, it I was lerrned today from C. B. of RHer, Wilkes superintendent German planes attacking in force for the fourth straight night j entire faen'ty was re-elect- blasted at Liverpool and the sur- gj fg,. another year in a recent rounding Merseyside area last | meeting of the district school night and early today In a heavy committee, coranosed of Dr. M. G. raid. jEdwardi, clrairn-aii, J. T. Pre- Nazi raiders a 1 .s o dropped . yette, secretary. O. K. Whitting- bombs On an east Anglian town, j ton, T. M. Foster and R. B. High flying raiders—presum- pimrr. ably flying to the attack on Liver-, q-ije faculty of the school, larg- poel—mused an alarm in London I n,e county system, is as at midnight but the alert was on follows: Wm. T. Long. Zeb Dick- X..TV oKotsTl «r VTV v^ i a*J_- the sharp beard in for some time before crack of gunfire was two districts. The toll of raiders downed since early Saturday night reach ed 18 when one German plane crashed and killed several per sons. However, there still were BO reports of bombs In London. It was London’s. second night alert since April 28. you SCOTCH AGAIN! Joan—Mother, are tha Boorest relative I have? Mothar—Yoi .dear, god your ‘-Amt Id thd t *■ son. V. E. Jennings. Miss Ghita Tuttle, Mrs. R. B. Pharr, Miss Helen Avett, Ml?s Wrenn Duncan, R. E. Caldwell, Van G. Hinson. Miss Grace Ellis. Miss Ruth Wright, Miss Ethel Reid. Mrs. Mack Moore. Jr.. Miss Elolse Starr, Miss Mary Jo Pearson. Mrs. Edith Hemphill, Mrs. Gertrude Steelman. Miss Cynthia. Prevette, Miss Willie Felts, Miss' Lucille Scroggs. Miss Ruby Martin, Mrs. Bill P.evette, Mrs. M. G. Ed wards, Mrs. R. V. Day, Mrs. Zola 6. Barber, Miss Selma Robinett, ,and Mrs. It,, jp. Prevette, maste teacher.-V. CHARLOTTE. N. C„ May 3.— Harry Pariier of 1014 East Boulevard, 17. Central High school pupil, son of Mr. and Mr.^. C. C. Pariier, yesterday etternoon became the first victim of the season to die in the waters of the Catawba river in Mecklenburg when he drowned while swim ming at Pine Harbor, north of Buster Boyd bridge. The young man went to the river in company with four friends. Louis Perry of Nation’s Ford road, Jennings Pinkston of 1901 'Woodrle Terrace. Jennings Dixon of 210 South C-aswell road, and Bill Ki ox of 215 Irwin ave nue, according to county police who recovered the body. Miss Companion Pine Harbor, river resort, was said to have been closed, and the boys left their car at the locked gate, end made their way to the (Continued on p: ge four) Eradication Bang’s Disease Is Begun HowiM boro, has been app^iited.' jOOTjnty form agent:, for' county and will ounme hJa 4qt{)is^ on luly 1,-M. T. AJatbvt, ohalri^v^ f of the Wilkes connty ? commissioners, said today. Chairman of the commissioners sold that Mr. Colvard had bee% .employed under agreement with State College and the Extension' Service and that the county will pay $50 per month, which will be- his allowance for travel expens4s. His salary will toe paid toy state: and federel funds. Mr. Absher said the board of commissioners was glad to co operate In the employment of ad assistant county■ agent tout thtf county was unable to enter Into it until the beginning of the next fiscal year on July 1. No provls^ Ion was made In the budget for an asalstant county agent this fiscal year, he said. Mr. Colvard, a member of a well known Wilkes family, was bom and reered In the Reddles River community of Wilkes coun- ty. He was educated at North Local Man Elected Head Of'Carolina State College graduat- ij. ^ . A«. as » Ing in the class of 1933. For s.x Big Corpolation At Meet- years he taught vocational agri culture in Union county and for the past two years has been en- Ralph Duncan, prominent North gaged In the lumber business "Ralph Dracan, local bnsinese man, who was elected president of (Carolina Monntaiii Tele phone company in a meeting of the board of di:'ectors 'tit that largfe corporation Prtda.v at Asheville. Duncan President Of Telephone Firm hi Western N. C. iZ: o A >./■■■ -■ •bSi ' '-'i ' ilA'-- Wilkesboro business man, has here, been elected president of Caro lina Mountain Telephone com pany. He was elected president of the corporation at a meeting of the board of directors held • in Asheville Friday. .Other members of the board of directors Include Edwin Duncan, of Sparta, and John E. Justice, of North Wil- kestotwo. .J.- ■ > The company, recently formed, has exchangjs at Bcikersville, Burnsville, Enka-Candler, Hazel- Craggy, Leicester. Hot Springs and Marion, all of which are in western North Carolina. Home office of the corporrtion 1s in Enka. Mr. D”ncan said today that he intends to make a survey of the company’s pronerty in the next few days relative to needed im provements. which will be carried out a.s e.ar!y Ts possible. .Mr, Duncan has about 30 year.? experience in the telephone busi ness. He was part owner of the Horton telephone company here for several years and was half ovner and president of the Inter national Telephone company which operated at Leaksville- Spray. Marines Seeking' Enlistments Here S’er.geant C. M. Harris, of the Raleigh office of the U. S. Ma rine corps recruiting office, ar rived in North Wilkesboro today to spend this week and until Fri day of next week accepting ap- plic-tions for enlistment in the Marines. he Dr. Wilder Beeins Testing of Cattle In Wilkes; Dis ease Are To Be Slain J. C. Wallace Is Taken By Death Widely Known Citizen Died Friday Morning; "Fun eral Held On Sunday Sergeant Harris .said that would visit high schools In this one section during the next few days Mot and will explain how young men Rjrs. Arnold Foster and Miss Pau- may continue their education •• ^ro^^h Wil- James Calloway Wellace, 67, one of Wilkes county’s best known citizens, died at his home here at 4:30 Friday morning. He had been in ill health for several months and critically 111 for a few days. Funeral service wrs held at the First Baptist church Sunday aft ernoon, three o’clock, and tourial was in Greenwood cemetery. He was born in Wilkesboro on July 19, 1875, a son of the late Dixon and Matilda Ward Wrl- lace. He was educated in public schools of Wilkes and at private academies. For several decades he wes a loader In public affairs in Wllk&= and for eight years was register of deeds, retiring from that of fice In 1928. Since that time he Served two years as clerk and treasurer of North Wilkesboro and for the past several years maintained an office as a magis trate, during which time he tried more than 1,000 cases. He was an active- member of the First Baptist church here and for several years was a Sunday school teacher. He was also prom inent in fraternal circles, being a member of the Masonic lodge and Junior Order. The surviving members of his immediate family are his widow, Mr.?-. Annie Lee Bullis Wallace, son. Claude W.-'llace. of Mocksville. and two daughters. Paul 8. Oagan, superinten dent o f North Wilkesboro schools, was re-elected to that position for another two-year term In a recent meeting Of the city board of education. R. Paul Caudill Baccalaureate Speaker May 25 Cmmmi^ln; Mekmg Says Mwe ' ■ -1 Wm ik Mor«d When Si^ blejC^naitm Are Pre pared In Lenoir Alumnus Of North Wilkes* boro High School Will Fill Pulpit In Service K drive to eradicate banv’.? di sease among cattle in Wilkes county began tod^v, ,T. B. Snloes, connty r—nt. .said this morning Dr. Wilder, who works under Dr. Moore, state veternar-an, ar rived in the connty and will pro ceed at Once with the task of test ing all cattle over six months of age. He will administer the test at the rate of 1 oflO per month and r!l cattle afflicted with the disease will be ,'laughtered 4m- mediately. Farm'-’-s will be paid for the cattle at the rate of $25 their while in the service in the' Marine corps. He also said that the aviation corps of the Marines is being dou bled and that young men have good opr ortunities In that branch. An'",her ruling of interest is that young men about to be draft ed may volunteer for the Marines before they rre Inducted into the army. If permission Is granted by the local draft board. He also explained that a grara- mer school education is all that is req\ilred for enlistment In the Marines, the edt'c t onal qualifi cation having been lowered some time ago. Enlistments accepted by Ser geant Harris will le.ave here Thursday, and Tuesday fnd Fri day pf next' week. for each grade “nlmal and $50 — for erch purebred. The farmers CHlrt In may retain the carcass for beef purposes because presence of the disease does not render cattle nse-l less for beef. ^e service is provided at no cost to the farmers, who are urged to extend every cooperation possible In order that bang’s dl^ M'se may be era4kated. Wilkes," ajoi^ with^tother opu Use U» Uip ■ Out-of-town relatives and elude the commencement on May friends here for the service in- 30." Second, Week Today Wilkes snpeHor cotirt tpday en tered the, second week of the term with Judge F. Donisld Phillips, of Roddngham. pf^iding. line Wallace, kesboro. Dr. John W. Klncheloe. Jr., pastor, conducted the impressive funeral service Sunday afternoon. Members of the Masonic lodge and Junior Order sat in a body during the service and pall bear ers were from the two fraterni ties. Burial was In \ Greenwood cemetery. R-v. R. Paul Caudill, former local resident who has climbed rapidly to a po.sltion of leader ship, will return to his alma ma ter, North WUke8boro-*jA4.-g.h. .* school, to deliver the- baccalaur eate sermon on Sunday night. May 25. The servicJ will be held in the First Baptist church. He i.s pastor of the Augu.sta, Ga., First Baptist church. Rev. Mr. Caudill has accepted the invitation extended him sev eral days ago. In a letter of ac ceptance to Paul S. Cragan. schools superintendent, he said that he had already accepted an invitation to speak to a large graduating class in Augusta at 11 o’clock Sunday morning, May 25. and that he may come to North Wilkesboro by plane after fillin,E that engagement. Topic for hL? sermon to the North Wilkesboro graduating class will he “Spiritual Re-Arma ment.’’ Rev. Mr. Caudill is a son of Rev. and Mrs'. C. M. Caudill, of Hays. In 1921 his family moved to North Wilkesboro from Trap- hill. where he had been in high school tor one year. He graduated from North Wilkesboro school in 1924. He later attended Wake Forest college and Southern Bap tist Theological seminary 1 n Louisville. Ky. The fir.?t program of the North Wilkesboro commencement sea- soh will be on Friday night, May 9, when a music festival will he given under direction of Miss Lu cille Du Bose, public school music teacher. On May 14 will be a banquet of Diversified Occupations em ployers and students. Arrange ments are In charge of W. B. Col lin.?, industrial arts teacher, and D T. Bush, student chairman. Puiplls of Miss Elleii Robinson’s piano classes will toe presented In recital on May 16. Examinations will begin on May 27 and continue through 29. ' A student program will con cluded the following; Mr. Jim Deal, of Hawell. Michigan; Mess rs. Fred and Frank Deal, of Wy- co, W. 'Va.: Mrs. Estelle Caudill, of •Mullins, Va.: Mrs. Cheek Hol den, of Oreenaboro; Mrs. Virgin ia Whicker and daughters,' Hazel and Dorothy, and Mrs. Frank Hart, of Wln&toa-Sal®*?- Miller Youth Diet Funeral service was held 9un- d b'7 ' kt Friendohlp Jdethodtot open on ■Summer school will June 2. Dates have not been set for re cital by Mrs. A. F. Kilby’s music pupils and a recital by North Wilkeshroo high school band. Attend Funeral For Folger On Friday Eighth Division highway com mission office will be moved t» Lenoir, home town of 'V. D. Quire, who succeeds J. G. Hoek- ett, 6f this city, as commissionar in the division. Decision to move the office was announced following a meeting of the commission in Raleigh Fri day. Zeb V. Stewart, district engi. neer, was in Lenoir today seek ing quarters for the offices. Be fore going to Lenoir he said hers that the offices would probutolg be moved as soon as quarters ia Lenoir could be located and made ready for occupancy. The move will affect ait the offices now located on the see- ond floor of the Tomlinson de partment store building on Main street here. The highway division machine shop, it is pra.?umed, will not be moved. No changes in personnel in ad ministrative offices have been suggested. Moving the offices from here to Lenoir presumably Is for the pur pose of placing the offices where the division commissioner can keep in touch with highway prob lems of the division. Duke Power Co; Officials Here Vice President Marshall anif Rate Specialist Reed Vis it The Local Branch High officials of the Duke Power company visited the North Wilkesboro branch of the Duke Power company last week. E. C. Marshall, vice pre-^ident, of Charlotte, and C. S. Reed, rate specialist, also of Charlotte, spent some time here and inspected the North Wilkesboro branch. Business of the company here was reported a.s favorable and the officials were well pleased with the progres? being m?d» and the service being rendered the steadily increasing number of customers by the personnel and facilities of the North Wilkesboro branch. Lions Hear Of Work In Park Development Of Bluff Psut Area Explained, By Mor rison King, Warden Morrison King, warden of Bluff Park on the Blue Ridge Pr.rkway in Wilkes and Alleghany coun ties, addressed the North Wll’-es- boro Lions Club Friday evening. The speaker told of park de velopment work which has al- reday been accomplished and plans for futuer Improvemento for comfort, convenience and en tertainment of park visitors. Edward Finley and James M. Anderson were in charge of the program. Seventeen membens from the Lenoir club were visit ing Lions. In the biusiness session plans, for the organization of a softb'‘U team for the club were discua=eL North Wilkesboro Jaycees Will Meet On Tuesday Night [» A - Wilkes people among the At MillersS Mmint Airy Friday for A. D. (liOn) Folger, fifth district* con- a %-.-r Jt In Cowt adjourn^ Wday morn-'Bthel ^ W. H. McMwoe, ing nntu today toecatue 'of the , ga.1: (Ltlrlk C; X* DougWon, C. in Monm Afry fW*y oft- ad^ltthd- S^SrS wd MrT. H. 0.+ .B^rdseataifve ’A D. The newly organized North Wilkesboro Junior Chamber tit Commerce will meet on ’Tuesday night. 7:30, at the city hall, W. 0. Absher, chairman, s'ld today. ' The Jaycees here, with a meto-,^ bershlp at present of 42, h.*.v»; been accepted into the state an# national Junior Chambers Commerce. Mr. Aheher said today ’ that election of officer* inky h*,-; one of the principal items of bea^. inm kt the meeting on Tneediiif U night. -'f'. tT.I .D6cA oat rotten egn or . _ .