War Jews
British Hurl Fresh
Forces A^reinst Axis
Cradal Test Develops On
The Ubran Front;
Chtaiio Mixed
German tanka were admitted
to hare broken through Moscow’s
southren outer defenses Wed-
nasdar and the German’a claims
brought them to within 25 miles
of the city, menaced from north
and south by a giant pincers
moTement.
On the Libyan war front, the
British hurled a new tank coL
umn and New Zealand reinforce
ments into the desert battle rag
ing at Sldl Rezegh, where the
fate of all North Africa may be
dlcided within 24 hours.
The British admitted that the
furious battle of Sidi Rezegh was
the “crucial teat’’ in Libya, al
though pressing secondary oper
ations deep in the interior and
near the Egyptian frontier. Axis
capitals claimed that the de
struction of considerable British
armored forces had given the
Germans and Italians the initia
tive in Libya and the Italions
claiming the capture of 6,000
British prisoners said Axis for
ces “have complete control of
the situation’’
Pacific Dark With
Threats Of Conflict
Chance Of Agreement On
Far East Issues Is
Extremely Small
Washington. — The T nited
S’ates last night handed Japan
a blunt statement of policy which
informed duarter.s said virtually
ended all chance of an agreement
between the two countries on ex-
•plosive Far Eastern issues.
A las*" minute switch, reported-
ly resulting from a Chinese ap
peal to the White House, swung
the United States from an antic-
tpated program of conciliation
toward Japan to one of firm re
iteration of long-standing Amer
ican policies.
In effect, the statement said
that Japan must withdraw all her
troops from China and cease sup
port of the Wang Chlng-Wel re-
gim-^ in Nanking a» an essential
preUmlnary to any agiwemwit
with the Uni’ed States.
Restates Old Stand
The statement — tendered to
Japanese. Ambassador Saburo
Kurusu and Admiral Kichisabu-
ro Nomura by Secretary of S'eie
Cordell Hull—was in the nature
of a settlement formula but, in
stead of meeting Japanese de
mands for American concessions
it resta’ed Hull's historic, 19.17
declaration of principles sup-
pcjrting the following policies:
1. Inviolability of territorial
integrity and sovereignty.
2. Equality of commercial op
portunity.
3. Non interference in the in
ternal affairs of other nations.
4. Non-interference with the
gta'us quo except as it might be
altered through peaceful means.
MANY READ PAPER—
Two Truck Loads
of Paper Collected
Canvass Of City Tuesday
Afternoon Success; Ano
ther Next Tuesday
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PviSSI: Mondsys and Thursdays NORTH WILKESBORO. N. ^ THURSDAY, NQV. 27, laaf
Ward
Hearing Here
Jesse Ward Will Face Trial
In December For Death
Of Ora Jay Holder
Jesse Ward, 20, Roaring Riv
er youth charged with the mur
der of Ora Jay Holder here Sat
urday night, on Tuesday waived
hearing In city court before May
or R T. McNeil and was held
without privilege of bond until
Wilkes Superior Court convenes
on December 8.
With waiving of the hearing
no evidence was heard and wit
nesses were told to report at the
December term of Superior court.
No charges have been lodged
in court here against Wilton Lit
ton, a soldier whose home is at
Roaring River and who was with
Ward when Holder was shot. He
is being held as a material wit
ness now.
Holder died In the Wilkes hos
pital Sunday morning from ef
fects of three bullet wounds In-
flie’ed by Ward in front of Allen
Theatre Saturday night about 10
o’clock. He was hit in both shoul
ders and in the upper part of his
left thigh, where an artery was
severed.
The shooting is said "o have re
sulted over an argumen* about
an aiitomooi.e repaid bill which
Holder had said Ward owed him.
Holder 28, had been working
with his father. Felix Holder, in
a garage at Moravian F'alls.
According to reports, the two
men had exchanged angry words
several days previous to the
shooting and while in the theatre
a few minutes before Holder was
shot.
The shooting occurred on the
sidewalk Just after Holder and
his wife and Ward and Lytton
had left the theatre. Mrs. Holder
tried to take the gun from Ward
as the shots were being fired in
rapid sHCcassioh,-
Funeral services for Holder
were held Monday afternoon at
Moravian Falls Baptist church.
Ward told police following the
shoo ing that Holder was advan
cing on him with his hand in his
hip pocket when he fired the
shots.
ELLER COUNCILOR—
Junior Order
Dects Officers
OPENING NEW GADDY MOTOR CO, PLANT
WELL INT
This picture is a front view of. the new Gadd” Moto- c~mnanv plant located four blocks west on the Boone
Trail and which will have Its formal opening Friday, November 28, eight a. m. until nine p. m.
— • • ■ — --■.-.■--•-j jQ entertain vlsl'or.s throughout 1 the formal opening at any time
Formal opening of Gaddy Mo- The event has been an icipated
tor company’s spacious and mod will; much interest since the
ern new plant tour blocks west building was completed and ?
on the Boone Trail highway will record formal opening number of
be held Friday, November 28, visitors is expected,
eight a. m. until nine p. m. ' The company has made plans
the day and evening. Refresh
ments will be served free to all
visitors and there will be music
provided as entertainment.
Visi'ors are invited to attend
after eight o’clock Friday morn
ing. A cordial welcome awaits
everybody and many will be glad
of the opportuunity to visit the
(Continued on page five)
Noab
In
t > i I
scalSl
Citizen of SwKB
munity Bwrbed In Hot
Water Wedni^ay
Noah Glenn Wagoner, age StJ
ci'izen of the Swan Creek coi^
muntiy, died In the Wilkes ho
tal this afternoon from borne
celved yeetarday when he
into a vat of holUng
which had been heated to
hogs which were being butchee-|
ed at his home.
Re stumbled and fell back
wards into the water. He waa
burned beyond hope of recovery.!
Funeral services will be heM|
Saturday, U o’clock, at Sv
Creek chnrcb.
Surviving are his father (
mother, D. W. and Eliza Shoraj
Wagoner, and the followlnrl
brothers and sisters: Finley annl
Dock Wagoner, of JonesvUle; i
Mrs. George Chambers, Ronda;
Mrs. Robert Cheek, Cycle; Mra.
Grover Harris, Mrs. Hugh Sparks, I
of Greensboro: and Mias Paulina|
Wagoner of Cycle.
SAVE $7,000 YEARLY—
Wilkes Refunding
Bonds Bring Rate
Of 2.99% kterest
$267,000 Refunding Bonds
Sold By Local Government
Commission Tuesday
District Methodist
Meeting On Sunday
At Local Church
Council Thanks Members
and Others for Orphan
age Donations
Two pickup truck loads of
scrap paper were collected on
Tuesday afternoon by the Boy
Scouts in the paper collection
projec* being sponsored by the
local Lions Club.
The paper collection will con
tinue each Tue?day afternoon
about three o'clock and all homes
are asked to get rid of waste pa
per while helping the Lions Club
In a worthy cause. The Lions
■will bale and sell the iiaper and
apply the amount received on
some of the club’s projects for
benefit of underprivileged chil
dren.
The Scouts are doing the pa
per collection work and especial
attention is called to ’he fact that
the Scouts want all the coat hang
ers which people of the city will
give. Just pla“3 'he coat hangers
with the paper on Tuesday after
noons. The Scouts can raise some
badly needed money with the
coat hangers given.
The canvass for paper Tuesday
was considered highly successful.
'The only publicity the canvasr
has received was a brief article
in The Journal-Patriot Monday
evening.
FINANCTAL TERMS
A recession is a period in which
you tighten up your bel’. A de-
preeslon is a time when yon Jmre
no"be1t'to tighten. When you
hav^'no pants to hold up, It’s a (
North Wilkesboro council of
Jr. O.U.A.M. has elected officers
for the next six mo:it!is period.
J. M. Eller was chosen coun
cilor and the other newly elected
officers are as follows' G T. Barr,
vice councilor; C. A. C.anter, re
cording secretary: C. il. Seluis-
tian, assistant recording seerela-
ry; C. G. Day, financial sec-e aiy
Northwestern Bank, treasurer;
Turner Church, conductor. G.
Anderson, warden: George Van-
noy, iaside sentinel; Macs Kea-
vis, outside sentinel; T. H. Wal
ler, junior past councilor; Paul
Hutchens, C. O. McNiel and B.F
Bentley, trustees; H. L. Mech-
(Continued on page five)
Interest savings on the Wilkes
county bords In amount of $267,-
000 refunded this week will total
about $7,000 per year, it was
learned today from county offi
cials. _
Th*. -Local Goyemment Com.-
mlsslon sold the bonds for the
county in Raleigh Tuesday to a
syndicate at an over-all interest
rate of $2.99 per cen’.
C. G. Poindexter, county ac
countant, and Max Poster, a
member of the board of commis
sioners, were in Raleigh Tues
day and approved sale of the
bonds. The purchasing syndicate
was composed of Lewis and Hail,
of Greensboro, Stubbs, Smith and
Lombardo, of Birmingham, Ala.,
and C. S. Ashman, of Minneapo
lis.
The refunding bonds were sold
in order to pay off that amount
in existing bonds on which the
county has been paying from five
to six per cent interest. About
half of the iiiteres' will be saved
by the refunding transaction.
The amount refunded repre-
.sents about one-fifth of the coun
ty’s bonded indeb edne.ss. Some
of the bonds do not have option
of prior payment and cannot be-
refunded.
County officials are investigat
ing the possibility of refunding
some o her bonds which may he
retired at any six-months inter
est period payment.
I-ORKSTHV NOTE
William. How many kinds of
wood are used in making a
match?
Sarah: Two kinds - he would
and she would.
.41 two o'clock Sunday after
noon the Elkin District Mission
ary institute will convene at the
North Wilkesboro Methodist
church. The Rev. Herman Dun
can. pastor of the Elkin Me'hod-
ist church, is district missionary
secretary and will be responsible
for the program. It is believed
that the meeting will be widely
a’tended by the Methodists of
Wilkes county.
Main features of the program
will be as follows: devotional,
Rev. A. C. Waggoner, of North
WnkeebOro; discussion of Ehran-
gelism. Dr. E. K. McLarty, of
Boone; “The World Mission Out
look’’, by Rev. Herman Duncan,
of Elkin; talk by Rev. L. B. Ab-
ernethy, mission secretary, of
Elkin.
MAKING A SIDEWALK-— ,
NEW STREET IMPROVEMENT
VVorKmen are shown here laying a concrete sidewalk
along highway 18 in the north part of North Wilkesboro
opposite the American Legion and Auxiliary clubhouse,
l^at work is part of the WPA street Improvement pro
ject, .also includes widening of the fill on D street.
(Photo by Dwight Nichols)
FUTURE SCOUTS—
Cubbii^ Available
For Boys 9,10,11
Training Course To Be Held
Here On Saturday, Nov.
29th, and Dec. 6th
Plans have been completed tr
make Scout cubbing available
to the boy.s of North Wilkesboro
age 9. 10 and II years, it was
announced here today.
Before a boy can register as
a cub he must be nine years of
aee and no* over II and hi
father-or mother must take a|
training course. j
The training course will con-1
sist of four periods, two on next ,
Saturday. November 29. and two j
on the following Sa'urday, Dec-(
emlter 6. One period will be from |
2:30 to 6:00 and the other from |
7:30 to 9:30.- Rev. W. S. Turner I
and Henry Grady Owens, recog
nized as two of the best Scout
leaders in Winston-Salem, will
conduct the courses.
A committee has been formed
to contact parents and others in
terested and try to get them tr
a'tend the meetings, as it will
be at least another year before
the courses can be given again.
The committee consists of J, P
Carter, chairman. T. E. Story,
Paul Cragan. Rev. W. M. Coop
er, Dr. John W. Kincheloe, Jr.,
Rev. .4. C. Waggoner, Robert W
Finley, Lewis M. Nelson and
Robert S. Gibbs, Jr. “If you are
interes'ed and have not been con
tacted please get In touch with a
member of the committee”, an
announcement *oday said.
Leaders for the local cub pack
will be selected following the
training course.
Blackout Ends
Displny lights and signs will
be hlazlngly brilliantly In North
Wilkesboro tonight, ending the
“blackout” of the pa'A few days.
Robert S. Gib?^ Dnke Power
manager here, rece'ved In^ruc-
doiis late today that the mUng
of OFM ordering ^mination of
noB-essentlal lighting had been
lifted, at leant for the preeeot.
CRAWFORD COMING—
Meetings For Land
Use Planning Are
To Be Held Soon
Fir't Of Series To Be Held
At E, I. Ball’s Home At
Gilreath, Dec. 5th
A series of Laud Use Planning
meetings will be held in many
communl'les throughout Wllkee
county in the next few ■weeks, J.
B. Snipes, Wilkes farm agent,
said today.
First of these meetings will
bo held on Thursday, December
4, 9:30 a. m., at the home of I. E.
Ball in the Gilreath comOlunL.,
ty. Announcements of time and
date of other meetings will be
made later, the coun’y agent said.
J. W. Crawford of the exten
sion service, will conduct the
meeting at the home of Mr. Ball
and will speak at the meeting of
the Workers Council in the
Wilkes courthouse at 11 a. m.
TTie I>and Use meetings are ?
part of a nation-wide effort to
survey land use problems and
to recommend the mo.st practical
use of the many types of land.
It is a far reaching program
Mr. Snipes said, and one that
should interest every farmer.
Questionnaires Do
Not Reach 3 Men
Questionnaires mailed by Lo
cal Board No. 2. Wilkes County,
to the following registrants fail
ed to reach them. Information
I as to the present addre&s or
whereabouts of these parties ■will
be greatly appreciat'^d by the Lo
cal Board in order that these
regls'rants may have an opportu
nity to appear before the local
board and show reason why they
did not receive their qquestlon-
nalres; Arils Greenwood Lowe,
Haywood Graham McQueen and
Dewey Celvester Burchette.
If the charges of suspected de
linquency against the above nam
ed registrants are ’ not-^-removed
before a short time, they will be
reported (to the Department of
justice, as delinquents..
APPRECIATION DAY—
Mrs. PUllips Is
Awarded $32.00
Large Crowd Present At the
Weekly Event; Seven Not
Here Missed Award
Hillery Burchette
Claimed By Death
Funeral services will be held
Friday, two p. m., at Bethel
church for Hillery Burchet’e.
age 53, well known citizen of
Ronda who died Wednesday.
Surviving are his widow, five
-ons, Rober' Burchette, of Wash
ington. D. C., James, Harold
Edwin and Walter Burchette, o'
Ronda; Mrs Virginia Butts, of
Arlington. Va., and Miss Grace
Burchette. of Ronda. Also sur
viving arc his father and moth
er, Noah and Elizabeth Burch-
e'te, of Ronda: one brother, De
witt Burchette., of Ronda: and
one sister. Mrs. Jesse Church,
Mrs. Howard Phillips. North
Wilkesborofi route one received
$32.00 as the weekly Apprecia
tion Day award on Wedne.?day
afternoon.
Any one of the following
would have received the amount
stated had they been present
when 'heir names were selected
as “goodwill ambassador” to re
ceive the award: Emmet Green,
of Stony Fork. $32: Hugh Gale
North Wilkesboro, $8; Pearl
Johnson, North Wilkesboro, $16;
Claude Hlggin.s, Wilkesboro. Rt.
one. $16; Mrs. Bernice Jones,
North Wilkesboro. $8,
Next appreciation day celebra
tion will be on Wednesday after
noon, four o’clock and another
cash award will be made to
someone present. The celebra
tlons are held on the lot next to
the city hall.
TO FORT BRAGG—
Local Boards Send
31 On Wednesday
(orArmylndnction
Expected To Be Last Call|
For WBkes Until After
Christmas Holidays
Wilkes draft boards sent 31 t»
Fort Bragg -Wednesday for In
duction into the army.
Although no official -notice, hsa |
been received by either board,
the November 26 call, number
^0 for the Wilkes boards, may
be the last until January.
The 17 who went Wednesday
from board number one were
follows; York Eugene Dyer,
Vaughn Jefferson Walker, Roy
Patterson Pennell. William Troy
Bumgarner, Deward Shermaa
Mash, Newel Herman Mash,
Richard Eugene Yates, Jamea
Walter Holcomb. Clarence Soo’s.
James Russell Brooks, Ray Wil
son Moore, Augustus Flake Rob
bins. Ray Stewart Pardue. Nor
wood Monroe Segraves. Talmage
Samuel Curry. Thurman Guy
Chureli. Clay David Brookshire
(inducted for Rowan county
board.
Fouurleen sent by board num
ber two were: Clyde McKinley
Key (transferred from Howard
county, Maryland), Quinton Os
borne. Dewey Edward Holloway,
(transferred here from Mont
erey county, California). Roy
Clifford Duncan. James Hillary
Burchette. assistant leader of
group. Glenn Jackson Adams,
Edward Forester Taylor, Nerce
Brooks, William James Higgins,
Oliver Houston Absher, Gradie
Hillery Co hren, leader, James
Andrew Johnson*. David Monros
Hall and Ranzie M. Harrold.
ENLARGING LAUNDRY—
ADDITION IS GOING UP HERE
Thir picture shows early phases of construction of an
addition to the Wjlkes Laundry building on B s^eet.
The addition wiMm comnleted vrill provide additional
soace for the e^Mdmg basindssjof Ae laundry, which
is owned ah4>iM*«ted by J. A. Jones.
WANT HANDBOOKS—
Woodlawn Scout
Troop Is Formed
\«v Who Would Donate
Scout Handbooks Would
Be Helping New Troop
Boy Scout troop for theWood-
lawn community of North Wilkes-
boro is being organized.
The new troop .which held its
first meeting in the Woodlawa
community house wl'h 17 pres
ent. will be under the sponsor
ship of the I>jyal Order of Moose
lodge here.
C. C. Faw, Jr., is Scoutmaster
and he reported that the boys of
Woodlawn are showing mUch in-
teres* in Scouting and a very ac
tive troop can be formed.
Hofwever, one of the greatest
needs now is a supply of Boy
Scout handbooks. The sponsors
believe that there are several
unse$ handbooks In N o r t fc
Wilkesboro in homes of former
Scouts and *hat the owners would
like to donate them for use by
the Woodlawn Scouts. “ Any who
have handbooks which they would
like to fire are^ asked to send
them to Shoun"” Kerhangh at
Marlow’s Men’s Shop or tb C. 0.
Faw, Jr„ at FojWter— Preretta
Insurance codnaCh#-
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