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Regiment, Hkler’s
_ Jo#t PVized Troop, Is
Reported ‘Wiped Out‘
Moscow.—^The Russlna army,
harllng th^ Genmans back on the
d«Mnslre, w»s Mid officially to-
S0 ta be iantoitifit JMido casual
ties bn the Nails around the Smo
lensk gateway to Moscow where
a regiment of Adolf Hitler’s prize
“S8" troops has been wiped out.
Its hopes of achieving a “blltz-
1 seienre” of Russia’s great cities
ehattered. the German war ma
chine was described In official
s-qearters as reeling back in vari
ous sectors under “the first pow
erful counter-blows’’ of a Soviet
drive that promises victory.
The Red grmy is throwing "in
exhaustible’’ masses of men,
planes and tanks Into the titanic
struggle and is overpowering the
Germans at vital points along the
long battlefront, the official Com
munist party organ. Pravda said.
Today’s communique describ
ing Wednesday’s fighting told of
“especially stubborn’’ resistance
that is wrecking German units on
the vital Smolensk front. 230
miles west of Moscow, and a-
round Zhitomir to the west of
Kiev.
“Victory awaits. . - . The much-
adverti-ed blitzkrie.g has failed,
proclaimed Pravda.
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VOL. XXXIV, No. 37
PiihlWie'a Mt>nil»ya «nd"riiut»day»V NOltft Wn^gESBO^e; N. ^ IMl »l-60 to. the State - $2.00 Out of Se«t»
Wilkes Schools
Will Begin Term
On August 27th
Opening Date Will Provide
for Completing Half Term
Before Christmas
Schools of the Wilkes system
are scheduled to open on Wed
nesday. August 27, according to
news received from the office of
C. B. Eller, superintendent.
The uniform opening date is
planned in order that the schools
may complete half the term be
fore Christmas.
Teacher allotment, w'hich con
tains four teachers more than last
year for the county system, has
been received.
Supt. Eller said that nine new
school buses have been allotted
the county system as replacement
for old buses.
War Department
Report On Yadkin
MANY PIECES OL
AT^IdWS
Much aluminum for natioiui
defense was given as admis-
sitm to two shows given by
the theatres here. At right is
shotvn W. J. Alien’, proprietor
of .’Vilen Theatre, as he in
spected the pile of aluminum
accumu^ted in admi.ssions to
a show given by his theatre
Sunday afternoon. More than
1,000 pieces were in the col
lection. Below is shown part
of the large crowd which ga
thered in front of Liberty
Theatre Friday morning be
fore the doors opened for the
special aluminum show. There
was a capacity crowd, a 1 of
whom gave aluminum in lieu
of cash admi.ssion charges.
Th theatres donated their
full facilities in behalf of the
aluminum cn lection drive for
national defense. (Photos by
Dwight Nichols).
Patience is Strained I Pg ReSuly III 1942
Wa.shin,gton. — Acting swiftly C J
and in a manner to show that its
patience was sorel.v tried, the
United State.s called .Tapan to ac
count yesterday for a new attack
on an Americ.'in gunboat in (,hi-
na and indicated the incident
would not pas-s with a perfunctory
diplomatic exchange.
The 370-ton gunboat Tutuila of
the Yan.gtse River patrol was
damaged by bombs which narrow -
, ly missed the United States eni-
" bas.sy during a .lapansese raid on
the Chinese capital of Chungking.
No casualties resulted but the
navy said the stern super.struc-
ture of the small craft was dam
aged slightly.
Soon after the news reached
gshington. President Roosevelt
kussed the bombing with Sum-
of
Major General Schley, Chief
of Engineers, Sets Date
As January 31, 1942
According fo a letter by Major
General J. U. Schley, chief of en
gineers in the War Department,
the department’s report on flood
control in the Yadkin valley will
not be ^ ready for congress until
.January 31. 194 2.
The following is the text of a
letter by Major General Schley to
Senator Robert R. Reynolds and
forwarded by Senator Reynolds
to F. C. Forester, of North Wil-
kesboro:
“I am in receipt of your letter
of May 6, 1941, in which you ex
press your.-tfl- Hood coil-
acting secretary press youy..ia.vsg-^,v-
'along the Yadkin River In
summons from Welles, the Jap- -v^nikes and Surry Counties, N.
aneae ambassador, Admiral Kich- c., and reque.st that you be ad-
Isahuro Nomura, called at the I vised of the Department’s flood
State Department.
Emerging from his brief con
ference with the ambassador.
Welles announced at his press
conference that representations
had been made to the Japanese
government.
He declined to say whether he
had admitted personally a severe
rebuke to the ambassador, as he
did lest week in denouncing Ja-
^'pan’s move to take over inilitaiw
and naval bases in French Indo-
China.
Fall Of Leningrad
Near, Nazis Hint
Berlin.—Germans reported ear
ly today that more than 2.000
Russians hrd been slain in one
day’s fighting about a bridgehead
on the I.«ningrad front and de
clared Russia’s second city now
Is in a precarious position.
The Nazi armies in this sector,
the informants said, are fighting
their way to “a fast approaching
important decision.’’
East of Smolen.sk on the cen
tral front the Germans are smash
ing at encircled Russian forces
^nd causing “very bloody losses’’
among them, informed sources
declared.
The Russians were said by the
Gennans to he throwing whatever
tro0ps are available into the fight
In/the hope of relieving hard-
pleased units, but “their destruc
tions 1s proceeding,’’ it was slat
ted.
On one sector of the Smolensk
front, in two days of fighting, the
Russians lost 230 Unks which the
official news agency DNB de-
clared was more than half of one
month’s production of the Soviet
Unk Industry.
Raid Large Still
and Get Two Men
Deputies Destroy Large Out
fit* In Boomer Section
Tuesday Afternoon
Deputies sheriff on Tuesday cut
one of the largest Ulicit stills de
stroyed in Wilkes in many months.
Deputies Oscar Felts, Homer
Brookshire, Barney Sparks and Ed ^
j Eller raided the still,) which was in g, number of others here have
1 J, I r- nnntrftl a-
itill.
-er 6,000
y for
gallons
jy distillation were de-
►yed, along with about 50 gal-
of liquor and 40 five-gallon
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Home Chair Co.'
Plant Damaged By
Eire-^Wednesdayi
‘Unlimited Army’
control activities in that area.
“The Department does not have
?t the present lime the necessary
Congressional authorization for
ihe construction of flood control
works along the Yadkin River in
Wilkes and Surry counties, N. C.
I am pleased to advice you, how
ever. that it is now investigating
the Yadkin-Peedee River Ba.sin.
N. C. and S. C.. in the interests of
navigation, flood control, hydro
electric powmr, and other water
uses of that basin under the au
thority of several directives from
Congress. Colonel Jarvis J. Bain,
the Division Engineer, South At
lantic Division, and Colonel Wil
liam B. I.adue, the District Engi
neer at Charleston, S. €., are now
making the necessary field sur
veys and their report combining
all authorized investigations is
now scheduled for submission to
this office on or about January
31. 1942. Immediately upon its
receipt by the Department the re
port will be reviewed by the
Board of Engineers for Rivers
and Harbors as required by law
prior to its submission to Con
gress with the recommendations
of the Department. After the sub
mission of the report to Congress,
further action by the Department
regarding any projects which may
be recommended therein will de
pend upon the authorization of
such projects by Congress and the
appropriation of the necessary
funds fir undertaking the work
proposed.
“I shall be pleased to notify
you immediately upon the receipt
of this report on the Yadkin-Pe°-
dee Rivers, and to give you or
vour secretary access thereto at
'any time that you may find con
venient to call, subject to the
usual understanding that the data
contained in the report will not
be made public prior to its trans
mission to Congress by the Secre-
tarv of War.
“In order that Colonel Bain
and Colonel Ladue may know of
your interest In flood control a- ,,
long the Yadkin River in North
Carolina, I am taking the liberty
of forwarding your letter to them
for their Information and consid
eration in connection with the
preparation of the pending re-
port.’’
F. C. Forester, P. E. Brown
Finishing Department Of j
Factory Damaged By Fire j
and Water At Night
Fire and water late Wednes-
day night did considerable dam-1
age to the Home Chair company '
plant at Ronda.
The fire was thought to have
started from an oil lantern a-
bout 11 p. m. Fire departments
of North Wilkesboro and Elkin
were sent to the fire and It was
under control in a short time.
The finishing room of the plant
was badly damaged. However,
company officials expressed hope
that the plant can resume full
operation without serious delay.
Urges Planting
Of Fall Gardens
County Agent Makes Sug
gestions To Reduce Food
Costs For Farmers
I Public Assistance
Grants For Month
Totaled $3,586.00
Say Prospects Good
For Dam Construction
Local Citizens|
Confer In Capital
With U.S. Officials!
Fish In Service
Major General In War Dept.
Says Report Will Not Be
Ready Until 1942
692 Needy Aged Get $5,941;
Dependent Children $2,-
127; Blind $518
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Arrow indicates Gen. George C.
Marshall, army chief of staff, as ho
appeared before senate military af
fairs commiitee asking congress to
J. B. Snipes, Wilkes farm a-1 a draft army of unlimited
gent, today released the follow- | spoke of the “grave na-
ing article relative to planting of | peril,
fall vegetables:
“This Is the time of year to
put in your seed for a fall gar
den. We need to keep sowing
and planting in order to have
some of the necessary vegetables
until frost to help reduce food
costs.
“You might plant additional
snap beans, .because they will be
ready for use within 40 to 65
John N. Wright
Funeral Tuesday
Following an Illness of some
time. Mr. John N. Wright, well
reaay lu. - - - - -- , known resident of the county,
days. At this time you might also . passed aw'ay at the home of his
seed mustard, spinach, turnips, son, Mr. E. R. Wright In Wilkes-
leaf lettuce and rape, which will boro, Monday morning, July 28.
furnish us some good greens for Mr. Wright was born at Millers
this fall. It is a little late, but Creek on May 3rd. 1874, the son
chance on the late Joseph and Mary For
Public assistance payments in
Wilkes county for the month of
.July toUled ?8,586, Charles Mc
Neill, superintendent of welfare,
said today.
Of that amount $5,941 went to
692 needy aged who received old
age assistance.
Aid 10 dependent children
grants went to 162 fa* ilies with
315 dependent children. The a-
mount was $2,127.
Giant Rattler Is
Brought to Town
Eugene Reavis Brings In Big
Reptile Caught By Dog
Near His Home
Eugene Reavls, citizen of the
Brushy mountain section o f
Wilkes, furnished a free street
show on Ninth street Tuesday.
He brought to town in the back
of his automobile a giant rattle
snake about five feet in length.
As soon as It became known
that a big rattler was on Ninth
street people flocked to s66 It- It
was' not a dead snake but was
very much alive. *'
And there is an interesting
had been caught by his collie dog,
“Spot.’’
medium size and had 6, 7 and 9
rattles.
story In connection with his
bringing the big reptile to town. Basin. The re-
It was the fourth rattler which t**® Yadkin Peed
A delegation representing thd
Wilkes Unit of the Western North
Carolina Industrial Council re
cently returned from Washington,
D. C., where they conferred with
Senator Josiah W. Bailey and oth
er government officials relative
to construction of a flood control
dam on the Yadkin near Wilkes-
boro.
John R. Prevette, chairman of
the council, said that the delega
tion was assured that prospects
were good for construction of the
dam, but urged that people In the
Yadkin valley not let up in their
efforts to secure the necessary
flood control facilities.
Senator Bailey is receiving the
support of Senator Ro-hert R. Rey
nolds, Repre-sentative W. 0. Bur-
gin, of this district, and Repre
sentative R. L. Doughton. of the
Ninth district, in efforts to secure
flood control.
In a recent letter to Mr. Pre
vette, Representative Doughton a-
gain expressed his intention to do
everything in his power to secure
the project. He also enclosed a
letter from Major General J. U.
Schley. War Department chief of
engineers, to him and Represen
tative Burgin. 'The text of the
letter follows;
“Reference is made to your
conference with me in this office
on July 16, 1941, at whlo
you both expressed your great In
terest in the improvement of the
Yadkin-Peedee River, North Car
olina.
4‘ln 1933 after extensive sur
veys this Department made a vol
uminous report on the Yadkin-
Peedee River in North Carolina
which was published as House
Document No. 68, 73rd Congress,
First Session. This document de
scribes and shows on its plates a
large proposed reservoir near
Wilkesboro as well as a number
of other reservoirs. "Potential
Water Power Sites as summariz
ed from Reports by the Corps of
Engineers to the Congress, ’ in
which economic justifiabilities.^
power possibilities and other data
sre recorded.
“In accordance with an item of
the Flood Control Act approved
June 22, 1936, which authorized
the continuation of surveys, stu
dies and reports on the above de
scribed proposed projects addi
tional surveys are now being
made which will bring up to date
the cost estimates and other data
of the previous reports. It is ex
pected that the studies now being
made will be completed on or a-
bout January 31, 1942.
“As you were Informed during
the conference in this office, it
has been found advisable to com
bine the reports on the several
authorized investigations of the
Yadkin-Peedee Basin into one
comprehensive report. The com
bined report of the Division and
District Engineers was substan
tially completed when in August
of 1940 a major flood occurred in
August Court To
Begin On Monday;
MSlMackstock Judge
•
Representative J. HamUton
Pish, of New York state, atr he
completed 30 days active ser
vice at Bragg and said
“Tlio United Stiites Army Is the
best in the world.’’ He Ls col
onel In tlie army reserves.
Eight Homicide Ca»e» Calen
dared For Trial During
Two Weeks of Court
August term of Wilkes court
will open in Wilkesboro Monday
with Judge Clarence Blcckstock,
of Asheville, on the bench.
Judge Blackstock, recently ap
pointed by Governor J. M.
Broughton, will be presiding over
his first court. He was assigned
to Wilkes for the first week, re
placing Judge Hoyle Sink, of
Greensboro, regular 17th district
jurist for the second half of this
calendar year. Judge Sink, who
will have Important matters to
hear elsewhere next week, will
preside over the second week of
Wilkes court.
Eight homicide ca.ses are cal
endared for trial. Solicitor Ava
lon E. Hall said that Everett
Wiles, charged with the murder
of Constable Naih Wyatt nine
years ago, and Lewis Johnson,
for the murder of (’rommie
Hutchison this year, will be first
degree cases.
The trial of Wiles is scheduled
to begin Tuesday of the fir.st week
and the Johnson trial will follow.
Double Funeral
Service Is Held
Elliot Williams and Wif«
Died Sunday At Their
Home Near City
port was therefore deferred in or
der that the reporting officers
All the four rattlers caught by might Profit
•Spot” were in the neighborhood S^lned^in tWs^noo^
of the Reavis home. The first scheduled to reach this office on
.hr.. t.h.. b, .h. d.g ..r. o, or . ii ' I '
you know, Immediately upon the
receipt of that report in this of
you might take a v*.
planting roastlng-ear corn and cum Wright, and at the time ot j„u8t flee it will be reviewed by the
setting a few cabbage and collard death he was 67 years. 2 ddv of them “ ’ -
plants. , ^ months, and 24 days of age . al,” bu^t was impossiUe to
“If you will use regular garden Early In life, Mr. Wright joined rattles hecamse “Spot’’
fertilizer which is 5-7-5, this will Friendship Methodist church n^r c
hasten maturity of your vege- Millers Creek, where he kept his hrl “aae a y
tables.’
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Duke Power Co.
Begins New Line
menabership until death. He was rattles
a loyal and active member of the ^na^ke.
church, and was one of the pro- ■ ^ ^
gresslve citizens of the county in Jdg
which he resided. barking They rushed to the scene
Mr. Wright was R^st M the dog attacked the
Mrs. Ocuvia Absher and to Mb
bright. “w:s Torn. Mra. Wright they P-Pared^a cord_^;;hal^ri’^^to
Cripple Clinic 7th
Board of Engineers for Rivers
and Harbors as required by law
prior to Its submission to Con
gress with the recommendations
of the Department. After the re
port has been transmitted to Con
gress further action by this De
partment on any project which
may be recommended therein will
depend upon the authorization of
those projects by Congress and
the appropriation of the neces
sary funds for the work propos-
6d
“You may be assured that the
Department is fully aware of the
flood control and allied problems North Wilkesboro route one.
In the vicinity of the Wilkesboro
Duke Power company has be- w?a horn. Mrs. wrignu v,ead and
gun construction ’of a rurel line- p^g^gded him several years ago. loop
a a niimoer extension nine and one-half miles ^ other survivors are one broth- hroug •
~ and arrested George interested In flood control a-'from Traphlll to Abshers '" the ^ g Wright, of Rox-
ann’ of Wilkesboro and Guy the Yadkin since 1933 and northern part of the county, Roh- sisters, Mrs. Roby J. _ _
*^**^h, of Purlear route one, at gn Lveral occasions'have contact- ert S. Gibbs, Jr.. Bullls, of Sanford; Mrs. W. T cripples will be‘Dam and
— ed^nator Reynolds and other of- North Wilkesboro branch, said held It the Wilkes hospital on the YadkinJ>eedee River Sys»^
of mash (jdals In efforts to secure flood today. [step-son, Mr. C. H. Absher, o August 7. A specialist and that every effort co s
inaaimres The extension will make elec-1 ^ yf ya. ' „ fn arinniad ^d de. with the necessity for sound en-
' — — trie service available to approxi- Mr, Wright was a
Do the best you can with what mately 50 families, Mr. Gibbs j] business mh.n, and jp treatment. (Continued on page eight)
Double funeral service was
held Monday afternoon at Cross
Road cemetery for Elliot Wil
liams, 60, and his wife, Mrs.
Susie Elizabeth Williams, both of
whom died Sunday.
Mrs. Williams died Sunday
morning at their home west of
this city In Reddies River town
ship. A few hours' later in the
day her husband died. She died of
a sudden attack but he had been
ill for some time.
There are no surviving chil
dren. He leaves three brothers, E.
V. and Albert Willie ms, of North
Wilkesboro, and Avery Williams,
of West Jefferson.
Mrs. Williams is survived by
two brothers, Luke Rhoades, of
North Wilkesboro route one. and
Gentry R. Rhoades, of School-
field, Va., and three sisters, Mr*.
Sallie Gant, Mrs. Rebecca Rags,
dale and Mrs. Glenn Miller, of
you’ve got where you are.
said.
(Continued on page eight)
SEEMS TO BE A CATCH IN IS
Adv. in a St. Louis newspaper:
PERSONAL — Sallie. come
home, and forgive for the chil
dren’s sake. Will you Mgn so I
can sell 50 feet?