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Battle Swt. |«. -i* lU^jr »ad 9>tt4l AamCBd iB aaotlwr vOt Om^ CT6»t ^TmtBC be- mXr and ■•M>o'^r- to' •vVtiatani MedltermeaB,’' tbe Ida hUch command announced BiKcineUr todar- The lUllan air force was said to be attacking “a large enemy nuTal formation sailing from Gibraltar” — probably a convoy under heavy warship guard. Prom ■ the communique it appeared to be still too early tor the Italians to list any results of the gigantic w The first eenclse word of the HijH» came in a communique wiitch acknowledged that Brit- own air force, apparently on its broadest offensives, had struck at not less than seven Italian cities in Libya, Sicil> and Sardinia. Reds Fiercely Resist Nazis Hammer Fleet A German attempt to wipe out the Russian Baltic fleet and tierce Russian naval resistance to the attacks were reported today in dispatches from the warring capi tals. • Five German ships, including a cruiser., a destroyer, two trans ports and a tanker, lipve been sunk and two more -destroyers damaged by soviet naval forces and short batteries in farflung engagements in .\rctic waters and ^^e Baltic end Black seas., the ^ ^ Brightf Local Men Say Be Here Hold Conference With Member Of Coble Dairy Co. Makes Score Plant Could Purchaae Half Million Dollar* Worth Of Milk Here ^soviet information bureati an nounced early today. These officially reported suc cesses at sea were coupled with accounts from the land front that the red army had captured ten more villeges in a drive from Yalnya toward Smolensk and that nazi siege forces were hurled ^Jktrora three lines of trenches by ■■^cd army counterattacks. Ship Arming Is Expected Soon Washington, Sept. 2S. — In formed legislators predicted to day that President Roosevelt would ask congress tor discre tionary power to arm merchant 8hip*4ia4-tO send them into bel- lln*p*ntjpnir*T rather than seek- "trfg iwwsu g ut^i- ity act. If such a course were followed, the neutrality act’s prohibitions against the arming of ships or their entering combat zones tech nically would he left standing unless the President found it necessary to put them aside. A final decision on what will he asked is expected to be reach ed at a conference between the President and legislative leaders Tuesday with a formal message uing to congress Wednesday or ^ursday. Prospects for obtaining a Qoble Dairy Products plan* for the Wilkesboros are good, it was learned here today from promin ent business men interested in the proposal mrde recently by the company, which has home ot- I fice in Lexington. ‘Tim company proposed to erect a modern plant here and purchase unlimited quantities of milk pro vided the community would fur nish $4.5.000 for a site and build ing. Several local citizens interested in the proposal conferred here last week with Frnik Btu:k. of Salisbury, a representative of the company, and stated that other conferences will he held soon preparatory to taking decisive action. Meanwhile, option has been se cured on a part of the W. M. Duncan farm just east of Wilkes- boro as a site for the plant, which is expected to meet the ap proval of the company and meet all requirements. The Coble Dairy company has a milk receiving station in North Wilkesboro and has been paying out about $16,000 monthly to farmers for milk at highest mar ket prices. Company officials expressed the opinion that with a plant here a half million dollars worth of milk can be purchased an nually throughout this immediate section of the state. First Army’s War Games Open Friday Camden. S. C„ Sept. 2S.—S'imu. lated warfare of the First army designed to involve eventually 500,000 men and rll types of equipment, will formall> begin Friday at Monroe. N. ('.. when Dieut. Gen. Hugh A, Drum, com- ,_mander, addresses more than 12.- -officers and non-commission ed officers. Gov. J. M. Broughton. of North Carolina, and Gov, Burnet R. Maybank, of South Carolina, will accompany General Drum from Camden, S. C.. after a luncheon. Other high ranking army officers will be in the party. As those plans went forward, thousands of soldiers bivouacked in this area and ^/iher thousands fjvm up and down the seaboard moved toward their positions, .somewhere in the 16 counties of the Carolinas in which the gigan tic maneuvers will be held. Newkirk Ferrying Planes Over Ocean 3d Newkirk, who spent several ir* In North Wilkesboro rnd nished breath-taking thrills by flying stunts about the North Ikeshoro airport, is now ferry- bombers across the Atlantic, ording to unoffocial reports S. rewkirk was one of the out- iding aviators ever to fly a le at North Wilkesboro and of tfie most highly skilled and Ing. Few stunts were consid- 1 too dangerous or daring 1 as flying under bridges, etc. fter leaving North Wilkes- 3 he spent some time as In- ictor at a flying school in Ifomla and was later in the ly air corps. local gal is going to marry !C-ray specialist. A neighbor ‘'What can he see In her? Secretary And Field Secre* tary of State Organiza tion To Speak Here But This Sieg Jr , end on cuon 01 me sun*, r- teajii/'whe sco*j>4 touc^dt^ ly favor obtaining the plant, pointing out that Wilkes is won derfully situated to become a dairying center. 11 Left Today To Enlist In Marine Corps At Raleigh Pat William-s Jr., of this cit.v, Daviilson eiid, caught a pa.H.s Saturday night in Greens boro to score a touchdown cn- ablii!!i Davidson to tie State «-6 in a major football upset. Williams Scores TyiiM[ Touchdown Local Boy Snags Pass To Bring About Major Up set In Football Game North Wilkesboro football fans were talking today, not so much of tie score': of Seturday games, but of the fact that North Wilkes- horo has a player on k Big Five team. That player Is Pat Williams, Davidson Wildcats Recruiting Officers Here During Week Interview Many Young Men turned the gime Saturdtfy nfght in Greensboro into a major up set. Williams snagged a pass throw by Dave Spencer into the end zone in the final quarter to tie State, which had scored previous ly in the ^ame. He is a sem of Mr. and Mrs. Pat Williams, Sr., of this city. He attended North Wilkesboro high school and McCallie’s school in Chattanooga, Tenn., before enter ing Davidson last year. Through out his school career he has been a leader in athletics. Leadership conference of nine school systems la„ northwestern. North Carolina will be held la| -North-Wilkesboro schoed audito rium Tuesday, September 30, 3:30 o’clock. ■ , County and city school sys tems Included in the conference area are Surry, Mount Airy, Al leghany. Ashe, Wrtauga, Appala- chirn State Teachers College, Yadkin, Wilkes and North Wilkes boro. Officers of the North Carolina Education Assocation who will conduct the conference will be Fred W. Greene, secretary, and Mias Mary Langston, field secre tary. Superintendents, principals and three teachers from each school rre a.sked t« attend the confer ence. Main feature of the meet ing will be planning of work tor units of the North Carolina E u- cation Association for the con ,ng year. The general meeting will open at .1:30 .and committee meetings will begin at 4:30. Daylight Saving Time Goes Oiit Daylight saving time w’ent out Gunday with more confusion here than ,-ccompanied its inception. For one thing, the time of its going out was moved up from Sunday night to Sunday morning, two o’clock, and many were un. der the impression that daylight saving time was to be in effect throu.ghout Sunday. Church services had ^re^oittly been announcid for day^j^t l«g tlme'"ta *(ome ten Per Cent To Be Added To Price (H Min^ ArB^ Coattotica,' Fura, Jewolrjr, Tire*, Electrical Appli ances, Telegrams, Etc. The new tax bill passed to raise three or four billions in de- [ fense revenue will go Into effect , Wednesday, October 1, and Mr. John Q. Public will be paying W many new taxes. * Probably the first taxes to be felt will be the ten per cent excise j taxes to be added to retail prices ' on all jewelry, furs, cosmetics, toilet preparations, electrical ap pliances, tires and other specified items. The customer will pay this ten per cent tar direct to the mer. chant, who will in no instance be allowed to make it appear that he is’absorbing the tax. First positive'information about ' ■■ . )«.... . . > Attempting to steal the I thunder of “Col. V. Britton,” who is the articles will be taxed ten sparkplug of the British “V for-Victory" crusade, the Germans release P®’’ this photo to a skeptical world. It shows a great “v” inscribed in a pnh- J- C. Penney s New York offices lie square in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The V stands for. Victoria, an to R. E. Gibbs, manager of the ancient German word for victory, long superseded by the familiar “sleg" Penney company’s store here, of modem Germany. | Beginning Wednesday, ten per I cent will be added to every sale of any kind of cosmetics, toilet preparations for women rnd men, toilet accessories, all kinds of jewelry, watches, clocks, cameras, silverware, fur coats. Marine Corps recruiting offi cers left here today with 11 re cruits after a week’s stay in North Wilkesboro. Sergeants Peter A. Arnow and George E. Griffin accepted appli cations from the following and carried them to Raleigh for com plete examinrtion: Donald Wil son Craven, age 22. North Wilkes boro; Joseph Berkley James. 21, Wilkesboro: Oscar Stanley Miles. 21 Piney Creek: William Alvis Minton, 17. Wilkesboro; Carl Clinton Dyer, 18. Purlear; Virgil Eugene Ashley. 17. Oakwoods; Jesse Mack Combs, IS. Sparta: Raymond Fr.cnklin Woodruff, 17. Elkin: Robert Guy Brooks. 17. Fnrehes; York Eugene Dyer, 21, Purlear: Willie Carroll, 22. Champion. Two of the above had already (Continued on page four) Term Of Wilkes Court Convenes Jufltre J. A. Rousseau, Of This City, Presiding Over Two-Weeks Term Here Wilkes superior court conven ed today for a two-weeks terni with Judge J. A. Rous.seru on the hench. Judge Rousseau, of this city, exchanged courts with Judge Hoyle Sink, of Greensboro. Judge Sink will preside over a Guilford county term in Green.sboro. In the Wilkes court beginning today civil cases will be tried during the two weeks. Many cases are pending and a full calendar has been made for each day of j the term. . fist and Methodist had on daylight saving time and In the Presbyterian on eastern stan dard time. In Wilkesboro one church op erated on fpst time and the other on slow time. One church was through Sunday school as the other began. At one North Wilkesboro church some members of the con gregation who were under the Impression that the time of church service would he on east ern standard time arrived leas than five minutes before services were over. The general opinion as express ed b-' many working people were that they were glad the daylight saving time was over because they would get to sleep later. One young man said he was not turn ing Ills watch hack ah hour Sun day hpc'use he wanted the pleas ure of doing that op Monday morning before he got out of bed. He said he was going to wake ”1) by d'>ylight saving time, turn his watch hack one hour and snopze another 60 minutes just for the fun of it. Joynes; Absher Line Completed Horse Show Will The Northwestern Be Held Oct 11th Singers Meet To At the Fairgrounds Be Held October 5 Event Sponsored By Wilkes boro Methodists; Com mittees Appointed Arrangements are b» ig rapid ly com^l^ed for Annual Singers’ Convention Will Be Held In Three Wilkesboro Buildings S t the The event will be sp the Wilkesboro Methodist church. Committees have been appointed by the sponsors and the show is expected to contain the best horses in this part of the state. P. W. Edwrrds is general manager for the show, which will begin at two p. m.. and Mrs. A. R. Gray, Sr., is genefal chair man. The progrrm committee is headed by James Cranor and the other members are Lawrence Miller and T. S. Kenerly. ' The Prize and Ribbon com mittee i.s composed of J. T. Prevette, William Barber and W. A. McNeill. On the publicity committee are Mrs. N. 0. Smoak, chairman. Julius C. Huhb: rd. Ray Erwin. Mrs. Claude Doughton and How ard Pharr. Mrs. W. T. Long is chairman of the advertising committee and the other members are Miss Frank Somers, Mrs. Roy Reese, Mrs. Lucille Norman. Mrs. Aileen Phipps Jones, Mrs. Carlyle Jor dan and Miss Willie Guthrie. After the horse show the Wo man’s Society of Christian Sei- vice of the' church will serve a supper at the fairgrounds. Mrs, B. S. Call is chairman of the ■I3»e Singes Northwestern Carolina convention will be held school auditorium fur collars, fur gloves, etc. Soaps, dentifrices and antiseptics will be exempt from the tax. It is also understood that the tax will he added according to the new federal tax bill to elec trical appliances, refrigerators, washing machines, radios; heat ers, tires and tubes, price of tele grams, long distance 'telephone^ 8 diihilcai BVUAMJt IZUUIVVtIUtlS Wivaa « . a — Gilliam in ch?rge, at the Baptist J by the merchant. It must be Ilst- church with W. A. Stroud in ed as a separate item and be ten . the Methodist J. McDuffie in charge, and at church with F. charge. ' It is a scmi-annual convention which meets regularly at the | is added, same place on the first Sunday afternoon in May and the first Sunday afternoon in October. . Quartets and groups from out of the county which have been invited and are expected to at tend. are: Kingsport male quar tet from radio station WKPT, Kingsport, Tenn.; Melody Boys, WHKY, Hickory; Hr lleiijah Quartet, WHKY. Hickory: Cen tral Carolina, from W.MFR. High Point: and Moore Quartet, WSTP, Salsibury. and many others. Everyone is cordially invited to attend this fine convention as around 2000 to 2500 can be seat ed comfortably in the three, build ings. per cent of the retail price paid by the buyer. Merchants must keep a record of total daily sales of merchandise to which the tax McBride, Sidden Hurt In Accident Walter McBr'de Badly Hurt When Truck Overturns; C. R. Sidden Injured North Wilkesboro Cadet Completes Basic Air Course Food Committee and the other Electric Service Made Ava l- members are: Mrs. J. Cochran Field. Ga. — Richard B. Johnson. North Wilkesboro. graduated Friday from Cochran Field, air corps basic flying B. Hender- school near Macon. Ga. Eighty- Waiter McBride. prominent citizen of the Joynes community, is in critical condition at the Wilkes hospital as the result of injuries sustained Friday rfter- noon when a truck in which he was riding overturned on high way 18 ten miles north of this city. C. R. Sidden, well known citizen of the same community who was with McBride, received less serious injuries and returned to his home after treatment. McBride has been in a state of unconsclousnes sand semi-con sciousness and the full extent of his injuries had not been deter mined today. Rescued Yankee Fliers Land in British Port able To About 50 Fami lies In Nine Miles fly for the Five American fliers who were en route to England B.A.F. and who were rescued when their ship was torpedoed. Four Americans were drowned. The rescued men, who landed at a British port, are, left to-right: Norman Echord of Kansas City, Tom Griffin of Mississippi, Jack GUUland of James Jordan af Sar Francises tnd Bivers Grove of Georgia. * -- Duke Power company has com pleted a nine-mile rural power line extension from Traphill to Abshers. Robert S. Gibbs, Jr., manager of the North Wilkesboro branch of the company, said to day. The extension makes electri city available to about 50 fpinl- lies in the communities along the route. Work was started on the line some time ago. Lack of materials is expected to greatly curtail rural line con struction. Many Hues in this territory were constructed with cables of aluminum wire around a strand of steel and the alumnl- nnm shortage will not permit fur ther manufacture of that type of wire. There is also a shortage of copper, which will affect con struction lines. son, Mrs. C. Y. Miller. Mrs. C. H. Hulcher, Mrs. N. B. Smlthey. Mrs. J. L. Garwood, Mrs. J. W. White, Mrs. J. E. C-.l'er, Mrs. B. C. Blalock and Mrs. Kate Miller. Girl Scouts will sell programs rnd Boy Scouts will sell soft drinks. two other aviation cadets moved on to advanced flying schools with Johnson. Study British Needs Banquet of Legion And Auxiliary 3rd McNiel, Dougbton To i See Fight, Word Series W. A. McNiel apd Sheriff C. T. Doughton left today for New York City, where they will see the Louls-Nova championship fight tonight and the World Series In baseball beginning Wed nesday between the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers. Mr. McNiel caught a plane for New, York In Wlnstoij-^lem. Sheriff Doughton, acComiianied by his brother. Mr. Hort Doughton. of Statesville, also traveled part of the way by. plane. / Fish Fry and Dance At Le gion Auxiliary Clubhouse To Be Friday Night All new recruits in the U, S. Navy and Naval Reserve reertve an elementary training In the use Bean crops In the New Hanover „„ _ county area have been sharply,of all tj^es of regulation reduced because of continued dry small ^’arms — rlf}ee,^,jz*«jw. ■weather, the third period, of nn- guns, automatic pistols, favorable crop weather In North ling arffis by seoae of •toUen m, Carolina this year. Included In this tra^^. ,« . ■ -...r ... r .... 'flfaj. Gen. George Brett (left), snndf aia corps chief, and CoL C. ■aisvia, noted army pUot, will tour iiHfai, the Near East and Medlter- stsdy British air force I^M^' Data obtained will speed D. K iM to the democracies. Wilkes post of the American Legion and unity of the Auxiliary will heve their joint banquet meeting Friday evening, October 3, at the Legion and Auxiliary cliihhouse. There will be a fish fry and an oyster stew for those who do not like fish. Plates will be fifty cents' per person, the announce ment said. I An enjoyable occasion is antl- I cipdted. All ex-service men end ladies who are eligible for mem bership in the Auxiliary are visit ed as well as members of the two organizations. After the dinner both round and square dancing will be en-' joyed.
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