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Berlin.—A titanic battle of ea-
etrclement—^perhaps the decisive
[*00011101 of the entire Russo-Ger-
—ia raging along a. twist
ing 900-mile front from Lake
.Peipus to the southern Urkalne as
("fanatical” Red troops struggle tr
'^free themselves from a series of
'traps, German military .quarters
said yesterday.
German forces in Esthonia, at
' the northern end of the battle
line, were reported officially to
k captured 10,000 Russians
and large quantities of booty,
while a panzer division in another
northern sector has seized “thou-
J sands” of prisoners, killed 2.300
IfR'Ussians and captured 71 heavy
' tanks.
The struggle, starting on the
Moscow front and resulting in c
high command announcement of
the capture of Smolensk on July
16, was said to be proceeding in
great fury, aithough military
^ sources were reticent about all
I'details-
Military reports pictured the j
battle line as extending frcm
i \L>ake Peipus in the north, where.
'iNazt troops are seeking to knife
(’their way through Esthonia to-
i ward Leningrad, southeastward
to the Smolensk sector guarding
Moscow, thence eastward toward
Vyazma, only 110 miles west of
I the capital. From Vyazma, the
’ line goes southwest toward the
i Kiev sector of the Ukraine to a
point 150 miles south of Kiev to
£e newest “pocket" whose forma
tion is claimed by the high com
mand.
The Luftwaffe was reported
, striking savagely against Russian
I’ ground forces and cities. Mosco^
was raided tor the 11th tune S^-
urday night, and the official
, news agency reported several
Uarge fires among industrial oh-
■ktives north of Moskva River
iDend.
Two Villages Are
‘ Recaptured By Reds
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Published Mohdays and -' NORTg C-> MOj
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North Carolina.
^ Realistic Maneuver for Strike -j|reaking
t, AUG. % 1941 $1.50 In t|^ State - $2.00 Ont
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Tuesday Afternoon
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Everett Wiles, 41, will face
trial tomorrow in Wilkes court
for the death of Constable Nath
an Wyatt at Wiles’ home in the
"Traphin section of Wilkes nine
years ago.
And the state will ask the
death' penalty of the desperado
who by shrewdness and bravado
evaded the law over a long per
iod while blazing a trail of crime
in several states.
Gifted by nature with leader
ship ability, Wilasi since the ear
ly days of his youth was a leader
among the fellows of his own age
—but he led into crime, which in
Wilkes included only thefts and
making moonshine liquor until
the day of March 24, 1932, when
he is alleged to have killed Con
stable Wyatt as Wyatt was
searching his premises fo# prop
erty alleged to have been, stolen
I from a neighbor.
I But even before that date it
j was no secret in northeastern
• J . J * 4 J I Wilkes that Wiles was a “danger-
Atop Signal hlU at Camp Edwards, soldiers go throngh a realistic maneuver designed to train them character.” According to ac-
n breaking np striltes. Here soldier strike-breakers, wearmg steel helmets, engage soldier strikers, wearing neighbors Young Wiles
latlgne hats, in hand-to-hand encounter. Strikers were captured, herded Uck to prison pen. j thought his
..vav>A -myiittrA"' — .
way might be challenged, even in
magistrate’s court.
Jim Nicholson had a search
warrant taken ont on March Z4,
1932, to search Everett Wiles’
home for parts of ant automobile
which he believed Everett had
stolen. Nicholson went with Nath,
na Wyatt, constable, and S. M.
Shumate, then a deputy sheriff
and now keeper of the Wilkes
county home, to execute the
search warrant.
When they arrived at the house
EJverett Wiles and five other men
were seated in a semi-circle in
the yard. In the part of a circle
was a jug which the officers be
lieved to contain liquor. One of
the men grabbed the Jug when
the officers arrived on the scene
and, followed by another of the
'sextet, ran through the woods.
Deputy Shumate and Nicholson
gave chase but the men had too
much start and after a few hun
dred yards they gave it up. At
that time they heard two shots in
the direction of the house. But
fContinued on page 4)
Seriiee Statibiu’^
aosingTP.M.
to Conserve Gns
Recommendation Of Harold
L. Ickea Went Into Ef
fect Sunday Evening
Washington, July 31.—In a
move toward compulsory restric
tion on the use of gasoline. Sec
retary of Interior Iches Thurs
day called upon the oil industry
to close 100,000 service stations
in Florida and other Eastern
states from 7 p. m. to 7 a. m.
seven days a week; effective Aug.
3.
The closings would affect all
gasoline retail stations on the At
lantic seaboard from Maine to
Florida.
“Unless this first action
achieves results, it must be foL
lowed by other steps to accomp
lish our end,” said the secretary.
Court Starts To
Work On Heavy
Calendar Cases
Everett Wiles and Lewis
Johnson Cases, Both First
Degree, For Th's Week
Wilke.s superior court conven
ed in Wilkesboro today and heg.an
work on one of the large.st dock
ets of felonies before the court
in many years.
Judge Clarence E. Blackstock.
of Asheville, recently apnplnted
I Moscow.-The Red army early
'4oday reported a stonewall de
fense of Kiev against {of Asheville, recently apnpfntet
encircling drive along a the- beneh-4ty' Oiv-rsor J. -M.
I Bronprhton. will preside over the
.^ges in fin, fnf this week in the absence of
threw the f^^rmans back still t«- , 0,-eensboro.
ther from the -mo s . i jj. over 17th district
"'•’escow. comniftid courts this six-months period and
,he w-ho will preside over the second
to Moscow.
The Russian high
said that on S'Miday. as It‘is Judge Rlacksiock’s
battle in hiptor)
“greatest
tered tt.s
s:;e,uh w;;k. • soviet ^nrs. court ,e.n.
I tered it.’ sevenin ‘ "".‘“h 1 .\fter court convened a grrnd
forces battled the 7"-"; "; ! ^-3, drawn and M. J. Beards-
I'unabated fierceness i U. of North Wilkesboro. was ap-
. southward bOO mile.s chairman. Following the
Naya-Tserkov region 1 a "iiles ^ 1 d
■louth of Kiev. uncontested divorce actions
J ^The official Russian army or-, two unconies
Red Star said that a Russian were heard.
Clerical Project
N.Y.A. Resumed
With 22 At Work
Mrs. Mary Virginia Shook
Supervisor Of Project;
Many Get Training
NYA clerical project has been
resumed in Wilkes county with
22 boys and girls provided with
employment and opportunity for
training, it was learned here to
day from NYA officials.
At the close of the fiscal year
all NYA projects were ’ stopped
but were resumed after reorgani-
zrtion of the NYA administrative
offices.
j The clerical project in W’ilkes
' U under supervision of Mrs.
. Mary Virginia Shook, who until
recently was a social worker tor
I the county welfare department.
1 Mrs. Maude Miller, member of
the personnel of the district of-
I fice at Lenoir, said that many
I have been placed in private eni.
ployment after working on cleri
cal projects.
They ‘Keep ’Em .Flying’ hy Working Nights
division. In 40 days of uninter
rupted fighting, had driven
through the German lines, recap
tured the Polish city of Przemysl,
held it for a time and “emerged
virtually intact. '
Przemysl. 5 8 miles west of the
hPolish Ukrainian capital of Lwow.
lies 145 miles beyond the pre-
war Russian-Polish boundary and the^tr^ .
If,nearly 350 miles west of Kiev.
The German war machine, snd
to have lost more than 1,500,000
''-nen in the last six weeks of
blitzkrieg - shattering" by the
,Aed army, was described in an
^official communique Sunday as
Everett M’iles. charged with
first degree murder for the death
of Constable Nathan Wyatt in
1932. was arraigned and entered
a plea of not guilty.
Judge Blackstock ordered that
a special venire of 75 men be
summoned to be at court Tues
day afternoon, two o’clock, for
Saddle Bag Days
I Subject Address
! ■
Postmaster Reins Makes In-
I teresting Talk At Meet
ing of Kiwanis Club
Thi.s afternoon tricl of J- C.
Drum for the death of Bristol
J. C. Reins, North Wilkesboro’s
Drum for the "eatn 0. postmaster, talked before the Ki-
Mathis at Ronda .several niontns . e
ago was called. The state is ask-;wanis club here Friday noon on
ing a verdict of second degree or
manslaughter.
The case of Lewis Johnson for
official commuii.Hu. .it the deeth of Crommie Hutchison
beidg in “complete exhaustion at ; he^de.th^o^ following
many points along t e the Wiles case. Johnson will face
ao longer able to launch |,,,ee charge. Solicitor
4.v'alon E. Hall said.
A number of other homicide
cases are pending trial during the
term.
Semi-Finals Next
In Tennis Tourney
1, Today’s communique describ-
«ing Sunday’s fighting told of con-^
Uinued, vital battles raging In |
? he “Estonian sector we-’t and
southwwt of Lenin.grad, around
the aBolensk region 230 miles 1
west of Moscow and in the at- |
tempted German encirclement of,
I
But nowhere, it was stated. '
were there any Important changes
in the military positions, indicat
ing t^U for the past 24 hours 1
the Germans bad been held to a
vital standstill.
Fighting appeared to be raging
night and day around the ap-
of "Saddle Bag
the subject
Days.”
The speaker named the physi
cians who were practicing in
Wilkes county as early as he
could remember and told inter
esting incidents about each.
The physicians he named were:
Dr. L. P. Somers, of the eastern
part of the coonty; Dr. Pegram,
of the Dellaplane community; Dr.
Tyre York, of Traphill; Dr. Ham
by, of Dehart. Dr. A. J. Eller, in
the western part of the county
and now the only surviving one
of the group; Dr, George Dough-
ton, of North Wilkesboro; Dr. J
Exciting Matches Are Being W. White, of Wilkesboro, who
built first hospital in county;
Played In Men s Smgles | ^
Division Of Tourney I kesboro.
Mty and around Byelaya-Tserkov
^ly 46 miles from the city on
toe south.
25,740 Gallons Of
Ice Cream Used at
Fort Bragg in June
i»Fort Bragg.—It takes a lot of
L cream to help the soldiers at
^rt Bragg beep cool these hot
Ih.t
e 000 gallons of Ice cream were
through the 30 Post Ex
es here In June- ®’-
^ons of Commissary issue
I^Jm were served In mess
fini the post during the same
^^late and vanilla are still
’ , tovorite flavor*.
11*0.0
J ,1 * In the business session prior to
Two players have reache ic program a resolution
unanimously passed asking
the Unemployment Commission
not move B. G. Gentry from his
position as manager of the North
Wilkesboro branch in the even!
that is any reorganization of tha‘
state agency. •
A nominating committee com
posed of Genio Cardwell, W. E.
Jones and E. G. Finley was ap-
^ semi-finals in the annual Wilkes
county tennis tournament now in
progress.
Mike Williams defeated I.aw-
rence Critcher and Albert Gar
wood won over Oarl Coffey. Other
matches to be played in the semi
finals finds Dr. W. L. Bundy r
gainst Ralph Crawford and Bill
Brame paired against Dr. J. C.
Stokes.
Here is » general view of the outdoor assembly line at the Lockheed Aircraft corporation’s plane plant
in Burbank, Calif., showing how production goes on through the night on the famous "P-38 Lightning” inter
ceptor planes for the U. S. army and the British B.A.F. More than 12,000 employees are on night work turnlni
out these planes. Inset shows a clos*np of a crew on night duty.
For Assault On Commie
Hayes Friday N'ght
u>ioD. pointed. The secretary rerd a
Winners in th? quarter Unals.^jg^^ reports submitted at
«« rr.iir„.r«- Dr. Bundv over directors’ meeting held 'Thurs
day evening.
were as follows- Dr. Bundy over
Archie Tomlinson, Ralph Craw
ford over Grady Church. BUI
Brame over Blair Gwyn, Dr. J.
C. Ctokes over Rev. Watt M.
Cooper. Carl Coffey over Pat Wil
liams, Albert Garwood over C. .C.
Faw, Jr.
Remaining matches in the
men’s singles division will be
scheduled early this week. Play
In mixed doubles, junior singles
and women’s singles will follow.
Pat, a truck driver, stopped
suddenly on the highway. The car
behind crashed into the truck and
its owner sued the Irishman.
“Why didn’t you hold out your
hand?’’ the judge asked Pat.
“Well,’’ he said indignantly,
“if he couldn’t see the rtuck, how
in bivln’s name could he see my
hand?”
Commie Hayes, resident of the
Tlruahy Mountain community, was
reported today as imiproving. in
spite of the seriousness of a brain
injury received Friday night in an
altercation in the Congo com
munity.
Hayes was said to have been
hit on the head with a hoe. At
the Wilkes hospital physicians
treated the wound and found that
the skull was brok?n and there
was a severe injury to his brain.
His right side, was toUUy para
lyzed but today there was evi
dence of slight improvement in
his condition.
Wilkes officers arrested Rry
Davis, of Congo, and lodged him
in Wilkes Jail on a charge of as
that sault with a deadly weapon pend
ing the outcome of Hayes’ injury
Commie Hayes and Warrer
Hendren, according to an accoun’
of the affair given officers by
Hendren, had carried Davis hom-
from North Wilkesboro and at
the Davis home their car had a
flat. Davis, Hendren said, said
he WPS going after matches or a
flashlight in order that they
could repair the tire. Instead, he
came iback with a hoe and started
digging on Hayes and Hendren.
Deputy Oscar Felts arrested
Davis, who made but little com
ment on the affair. However, he
was quoted as saying that Hayes
and Hendren were "trying to run
something over him.”
They tell us young folks fret
about the future, but you wouldn’t
think; 80 when you see a crowd of
them together. ,
Brushy Mountain Fruit Grow-
i ers will hold their annual picnic
ion Wednesday. August 13, at W.
I H. H. Waugh’s upper orchard in
the Gllreath community.
An excellent program has been
arranged with Dr. C. F. Smith,
research entomologist, as the
guest speaker, H. R. Niswonger,
Carl E. VanDeman. and the coun
ty agents of both Wilkes and
Alexander. J. B. • Snipes and
George Bobson, will also add to
the interest of the program. It is
hoped a program for the women
can also be arranged.
Every fruit grower in the dis
trict is invited to attrnd and to
bring their families and friends
with a well filled basket.
Four N.Y.A. Boys
In Plane Factory
Four of Six Sent From NYA
Resident Center In Ral
eigh From Wilkes
Wilkes county furnished four
of six boys who were sent recen*
ly from the NYA resident center
at Raleigh to a bomber factor?
in Maryland, it was learned here
today.
The boys who completed their
training in sheet meUl work 1’
the resident center and were as
signed to jobs were John Brett
Blevins, of Springfield, Clifford
Elledge and Walter Harrold, of
Hays, and Donald Love, of the
Palrplains community.
The -boys, a NYA official said
Seven Cases' Of
Man Charged With Fruit Growers’
Digging Hoe Into Picnic Aug. 13 Tuberculosis Are
R r 2) 1 n interesting Program Plann- Found In Clinic
miuuicr 5 LM am ^d; win Be At W. H. H.
Rav Davis, of Congo, Held Waugh’s Orchard
256 Examined By Diagrnosti-
cian During Clinic Held
In Wilkesboroi Recently
Seven new cases of tubercu
losis were discovered in the adult
clinic recently held in Wilkes
boro, it was learned today from
the county health department.
In addition to the seven posi
tive cpses, five of the childhood
type were diagnosed. Thirty-five
cases previously diagnosed were
also examined.
Dr. W. H. Roper, specialist
from state sanltorlum, made the
examinations. A total of 256, in
cluding 17 colored persons, were
examined during the two weeks
of the clinic.
Wilkes Third In
Sale Easter Seals
Guilford and Orange Only
Counties In State Raising
More Than Wilkes
Wilkes county was third in the
state in the aonount of funds rais
ed by sale of Easter seals to aid
cripples, It was disclosed in the
meeting of the directors of the
North Wilkesboro Kiwanis club.
Over *750 was raised in Wilkes
and the only counties in the state
raising a larger amount were
Guilford and Orange, the latter
being the home county of C. E.
McIntosh, state chairman of the
Easter Seal sale drive.
The North Wilkesboro Kiwanis
club, which has as one of its prln-
cipnl objectives work among the
will receive 65 cents per hou; crippled chilflren, was very ^tlve
during their apprenUceahip and TX
Service Stations
Ask Cooperation
With bnt few exceptions,
service stations in this vicinity
closed Sunday evening at seven
o’clock and remained closed
until seven this morning. Their
open hours will be seven to
seven dally.
Management of service sta
tions, who are cooperating In
the recommendation of Secre
tary Ickes, respectfully a,sk that
their customers keep the clos
ing hours in mind and secure
sufficient gasoline between sev
en a. m. and seven p. m.
who is defense petroleum co-ordl-
nator.
The recommendation for cloa-
ing of service stations during
night hours would be applicable
"throughout the states of Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa
chusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Is
land, New Jer.sey, Delaware,
Maryland, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, the Peninsula
of Florida, the District of Colum
bia, and all marketing areas in or
east of the Appalachian moun
tains in the state of New York,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West
Virginia, and such additional
marketing areas in said states
where any substantial part of the
motor fuel supplied is either pro
duced in any of .said states, or
shipped into such areas from any
point east of such areas.”
To assure effectiveness of the
closing, Ickes said he was request
ing suppliers of gasoline to take
such action, including the refusal
to make further deliveries of mo
tor fuel, as may be appropriate in
cases of continued end deliberate
failure on the part of any re
tailer to observe the recommenda
tion.
Special consideration wa.s given
by Ickes to commercial and emer
gency use of motor vehicles at
night, his messa^,e to the oil in
dustry providing “that this
recommendetion shall not apply
to the operation of facilities used
exclusively after the hour of 7 p.
m. and before 7 a. m. in supply
ing motor fuel to commercial ve--
hides so classified pursuant to
law, nor to the sale and delivery
of motor fuel into the tank of any
motor vehicle in the event of an
emergency involving public health
or safety.”
The greatest effect of the re
strictions on hours of sale, Ickes
said, would be “to emphasize to
the public the seriousness of the
situation.” He expressed confi-
ience that when the public did
realize the extent of the emer
gency it would curtail consump
tion of gasoline voluntarily.
Confidence also was expressed
by Ickes that the oil industry
would co-oper-.:te wholeheartedly,
pointing out that the petroleum
marketing committee in the No.
1 area of the East had raised
$250,000 for advertising in your
newspapers, telling t-'c people not
to buy their products. Did you
ever hear of anything like it?’
Ickes foresaw no serious unem
ployment as 'h result of the night
time station closings.
Curtailment of consumiptlon is
necessary, Ickes said, because of
the inadequacy of available tank
er capacity for transportation of
petroleum from Gulf coast ports
to the Atlantic coast. Fifty Unk-
ers have been transferred to the
British service.
Be it ever so humble, almost
every home in North >^kesboro
has an auto in iU garajfe. ^