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1 i?yg *^r UNITED STATES ^ /m WAR 1/1 T 1 STAMPS An In VOL. 55, NO. 13 EIGHT ESCAPED CONVICTS STILL ELUDE CAPTURE One Other Escapee Taken Near Deep Gap; Luther Moretz Shot By Convict; Flees Scene and Leaves Car Stolen from Bristol Man Eight of the ten convicts who escaped last week from the local prison camp are still at large, and have successfully eluded prison guards and other officers who have conducted practically a day and night search throughout this section. The second one captured was Dearman Williams, who was taken into custody near Deep Gap. Two others escaped from the officers. A. G. Kiscr was captured a few hours after the break on a wooded hillside near town. Luther Moretz, resident of the Rich Mountain section, was shot by one of the three men who last Monday stole an automobile from DUCKETT SURRENDERS TO MADISON OFFICERS Doyle Duckelt. one of the two ringleaders in the mass escape from the Boone prison camp surrendered to authorities in Madison county Tuesday, according to Superintendent Carter Farthing, and will be returned here Thursday. Ducket: was serving a 30-year sentence for second degree murder in Madison county, and he and Dearman Williams, who has been captured, are the two who are said to have overpowered the guards and disarmed them, paving the way for the mass escape. Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Cecil of Bristol, after he had assisted them in getting the stolen car on the road and had provided the food they demanded. The bullet from one of the revolvers taken in the escape ploughed through the flesh of Mr. Moretz's left arm, but the injury is not serious. The three men were traveling in the stolen car late at night when they asked young Moretz to help them with their stalled car. He obliged, and when food was demanded, a meal was prepared. In formation is that the men had liquor, and that after the meal was consumed, became boisterous. Mr. Moretz is said to have ordered them from his house. They complied and the shot which took effect was fired through a window. Meantime, someone had let the air out of some of the tires on the auto, and the prisoners escaped on foot. Officers arriving later were unable to locate, the convicts. The stolen car was returned to Boone. 634 STUDENT^ NOW ON CAMPUS Enrollment at Appalachian College Includes Students From Eleven States '< Six hundred and thirty-four students have registered for the fall quarter at Appalachian College, with the expectation on the part of officials that the total will reach 650 by the end of the first term. Out of the total now enrolled, 32 arc from out of the state: Virginia, Pennsylvania and South Carolina being the leading states. Other states represented are Louisiana, Florida, Tennessee, New York, Ohio and Alabama. Enrollment is approximately 200 less than last year, with the greatest loss being among the male section. At present 170 men have registered for the fall quarter. The drop in men students is easily explained by the constant demand of the army and defense projects upon the manpower of the nation. In addition, many girls fail^l to return to Appalachian due to defense work. Despite the curtailed enrollment, the administration ha3 expressed satisfaction at the present toal, with the national situation as it is. WANTED BY DRAFT BOARD William Vincente Shelton, registered under the selective service act from Tamarack, cannot be located by the local selective service board. Anyone knowing of his whereabouts is asked to communicate with the local board. CEILINGS Definite plans are being made to place a price ceiling on live hogs, with similar action expected in the near future on cattle, according to a recent OPA announcement. ZATA1 dependent Weekly N BOONE, WA Arabs Take to Air ? i Arab workers al a U. S. army air force stalion in the Middle East are given a discussion on aeronautics by an American officer. The natives get along very well with Americans, and are fast icaiumy muencan siang. REVIVAL STARTS BAPTIST CHURCH Dr. Arthur Fox, Widely Known Minister, to Start Meeting Here on Sunday Dr. Arthur Fox, former pastor ol Morristown, Tenn., and other south ern cities of several states, is to be the preacher in a scries of reviva services beginning at the First Bap tist church next Sunday. Dr. Fox has for the past several years been engaged in evangelistic work throughout the south. He u a forthright preacher of the oldtime Gospel without apology or compromise. Recently he held one oi the greatest, meetings in Georgit that has been in that state in many years. He has also held meeting: in the First church, Gastonia; Wes' Jefferson, Mountain City and. many other nearby towns. The pastor, Rev. J. C. Canipe, ha: been making preparations for thh meeting for some time. Many people of the Baptist church are pray ing and expecting a great reviva and the conversion of many souls. Looking to the meeting which be gins next Sunday, Rev. Mr. Canipt will be speaking over the local radic station WDRS all this week at li a. m. AU the people of the community and county are invited tc attend this meeting which the pastoi and cnurch hopes will be a blessinj to all. Last Sunday in the churcl bulleling the pastor urged the mem bcrs to think, pray, act! The pas tor with many other ministers anc Christians believe that the war cai best be won by a real return to Goc and righteousness. The revival wil be a serious effort in that direction Dames Club Serves Breakfast to Selectee* On Thursday morning, Septembe: 17, the Faculty Dames Club serve* breakfast to the 45 young men whi made up the September selectiv* service quota from Watauga coun tyThe men assembled at the Re< Cross canteen room at 6 a. m. when they received doughnuts, sand wiches and coffee. As the draftee entered the buses _ they were eacl given a bag of homemade cookies A bushel of apples were placed ii the bus for the boys' enjoyment. RAF CONTINUES RAIDS ON OCCIPIED FRANCI London, Sept. 22?RAF Bostor bombers, flying so low they passec between the twin smokestacks o one power station target, raided th< industrial-areas of Lille and Lens it North France and an iron works a Ijmuiden in Holland today despit) thick rain clouds that dogged then over the channel. One pilot whi bombed the power station from les than 150 feet said he saw debri hurled up through its roof an< "when we came back we sav flames and smoke belching from th< holes." Another power station was hit ii the Lille-Lefts area and the bomb ers set a number of fires in the tar get area at Ijmuiden. The German radio said smal numbers of British planes raide< Helgoland bight and the Schleswig Holstein coast last night and re ported from Sofia that unidentifiei aircraft caused several alarms it Bulgaria. The German broadcas said German night fighters sho down three raiders in the bight where the Nazis have an import ant military and naval station 01 Helgoland island. UGA ewspaper-Establishes lTAUGA county, north CA] i REPUBLICANS IN " ! CONVENTION NAME COUNTY TICKE1 Kenneth Linney Heads Slate foi Senate; Tom Miller Runs foi House, while C. M. Watson i: in Sheriff's Race The Republicans of Watauga coun ty gathered in convention at the courthouse Saturday afternoon, ant without dissent namei Kenneth B Linncy. hardware merchant and : member of the city council, as theii candidate for the state senate in th< ' district embracing Watauga, Ash< [and Alleghany counties. Thomas Miller, manager of th Southeastern Motor Lines termina here, was the choice of the conven tion as a candidate for the lowe house of the general assembly, am Charles M. Watson, prominent farm er and local business man, was nom . inated for sheriff without a ballot Earl D. Cook and Thomas Millei both candidates for the nominatioi in the spirited pre-convention cam r i paign. stepped out of the way ti i give Mr. Watson the nominatioi unanimously. J. V. Caudill, local mortitian, wa I the unanimous choice for coronet having been previously endorsed b; the Democratic convention. Iredell Bumgnrner is the candi date for surveyor, winning over W E T. Vandyke and Joe J. Miller. Thirteen candidates were placet , before the convention for count; . commissioners, and the followini were named on the first ballot: II O. Aldridge of Shulls Mills; W. C Greene of Laxon and William Win [ kler of Boone. No candidate was named for cierl of the superior court, the execu ' tive committee having been givei " authority by the convention to fil ; this gap in the ticket. The following were named on th1 executive committee: Bald Mountain township, Wad [ Norris; Beaver Dam, Spencer War * ren; Blowing Rock, J. E. Young ' Blue Ridge, Elmer Miller; Boone Elbert Vannoy; Cove Creek, I. F > Pllr Ailin rklirnU- T ?IIM TYUOUII. VyIIU>i.U) UUUib 5 Creek, O. J. Harmon; Meat Cam; ' No. 1, Carl Byers; Meat Camp Nc * 2, Wayne Miller; North Fork, Fran! ' Main; Shawneehaw. A. C. Miller Stony Fork, Joe Coffey; Watauga [ Fred Hatley. l Western Carolina ] Kraut is Assured - Sale in Barrel: i 1 Raleigh, Sept. 22?Western Nortl Carolina kraut plants which hav " been closed because of tin shortage 1 are assured of a sale for their pro J duct and government price suppor | "if kraut is packed in barrels," F 1 B. Kthridge, chief of the market division of the state department a agriculture, said yesterday. Three major kraut plants, locate at Boone. Mount Airy and Cran ' berry, will be affected, Ethridg said. r 1 SOVIETS CLING TO MOST J OF STALINGRAD POSITION: Moscow, Wednesday.?The Re army, fighting fiercely in th i wreckage of Stalingrad, yielded tw J more streets to the battering attac! - of reinforced German troops Tues s day, the Soviet high command an t nounced today as the great battl i. entered its 30th day. i In other parts of the burn in j smoke-filled city, however, th Russians were said to be holdin their ground against the attacker; ' lniliciuig ureinenauus losses as ui Germans poured an apparently end i less stream of new men into th 1 great and bloody battle. ? The midnight communique sai ; the Red army was countersttackin i northwest of Stalingrad, where 3,00 t Germans were said to have bee i killed in two days. This apparent i ly is an effort to cut communica i tions of the Germans now in ths s city, for it was from this area tha s they first broke through the de i fenses. i Meanwhile, the communique saic e the Germans launched a heavy at tack with two infantry regiment i against the southern outskirts c - Stalingrad in an attempt to pene - trate the city from that directioi Russian mortars, however, opene 1 up on them and wiped out about i battalion, frustrating the attack. In the street fighting in whic - the Germans made their two-blcc i gain, one Russian formation kille a more than 300 Nazi officers an t men, damaged ten tanks and d< t stroyed nine motor vehicles, th t, communique said. a The body of an adult man cor tains more than one gallon of bloo< DEM< d in the Year Eighteen ROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEM Photo of Jap Office e The idea was to scare the U. I military press officer Maisuda par; the news of the fall of Singapore Jj the U. S. would come out al the b of the photos published in "Fre< published in Shanghai in the Eng j ;|??W Watauga 1 Men ^ith || The Colors I Visits Relatives 'i Pvt. Jacob J. Miller, U. S. army, j I Camp Gordon, Augusta, Ga., left x Sunday after spending a short fur\ lough with relatives on Boone Route * 2. Private Miller has been in the I" service sir.ce June, 1941. Visils Home Folks Pvt. Stanford C. Coffey, II, S. c army, Fort Knox, Ky., has been spending a seven-day furlough with ~ his wife and mother at Foscoe. Pvt. , LCoffev has been in the service since April, 1942. Jack Hodges a Visitor e Jack Hodges, pharmacists mate, U. S. navy, Norfolk, Va., returned to his post of duty Monday, after a " brief furlough with home folks here, ' On Foreign Soil j' Mrs, C. R. Dotson of the Shulls Mills section, has received word that her son. Kenneth, of the U. S ' army, has arrived safely in Eng - land. Visits Mother ' i Hubert Pitts of the navy, Norfolk Va.. is visiting his mother, Mrs Orpha Pitts of Shulls Mills. Visits Homefolks Private Glenn Carlton left Sat urday for Fort Bragg after spend ing a few days visiting with hit g parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Carlton of Deep Gap. ^ In Stale of Washington e Staff Sergeant Clint Cannon, sor of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Cannon ol Valle Crueis, who has been stationI ed at Tampa, Fla., for some time . is now in Walla Walla, Wash. 3 where he is with the base ordnancf f office. Before going to Washing ton, Sergeant Cannon was in th< j state of Oregon for a while. e Red Cross Canteen Room Is Now Oper 5 The Red Cross Canteen room foi the entertainment of men in the d armed forces and selectees, is now e open in the Earl Cook .tyuilding or 0 Depot street. The room will be open all day Saturday, Sunday afternoon, and Monday morning. e Guernseys of Local Dairy Take Prizei e g The New River Dairy won three j, prizes in the twelfth annual Gucre nsey Cattle Show held in Morgan ton last Weelnesday, and which was e attended by Mr. W. M. Winkler owner of the dairy, Barnard Dough d ertv and Countv Aeent Harrv Ham g ilton. 0 The local dairy won third priz< n in the senior heifer calf class; sec t- ond in the junior yearling heife: [- class, and first in the senior year it ling heifer class, it > !* Directors Named by i, Blue Ridge Coop t- At a meeting of the Blue Ridgt s Electric Membership Corporatioi if iri Lenoir recently, directors wen elected for the coming year. 1. Those chosen from Watauga coun d ty were Clarence Newton, Clyd< a Perry, Bert Mast and Avery Greene Others named were C. B. Graybeal h A. B. Hurt, R. E. L. Plummer, J. C k Goodman, Van Miller, C. C. Poovey d G. W. Sullivan, 0. F. Sturdivant, C d G. Collins, A. G. Beach and D. R >- Moore. ie The directors re-elected the fol lowing officers: G. W. Sullivan ant Clyde Perry, vice-presidents; A. G i- Beach, secretary-treasurer, and G. F J. Messick, superintendent. 3CRA Hug red and Eighty-l BER | 1942 S _ r \ sting His Time ?J x MPT* S. internees. That's why Japanese t ided the prisoners and read to them . Nobody fainted. All knew thai ell for the next round. This is one :dom." Jap propaganda magazine lish language. TEACHERS WILL MEET ON MONDAY First Series of Gatherings An- ' nounced by Dr. Southard; , Committees Named i h The frist series of meetings of the Watauga County Teachers Associa- j tion will be held at 6:30 p. m., Mon- \ day, September 28. it is announced by Dr. Orby Southard, president of J the association. Instead of following the custom 5 of holding county-wide meetings, it \ has been agreed to hold meetings at four points in the county so that f less travel will be necssary. The 1 points selected are the four high t schools in the county?Appalachian, Cove Creek, Blowing Rock and 1 Bethel. 1 The theme for the first series of * meetings will be "Education in War Time." Following a nation- : | wide broadcast on the subject sponsored by the Educational Policies : commission of the National Education Association, a discussion of the ' issues raised by the broadcast wilt be led by the high school principal ' in charge of the meeting. Following are the new committee members of the education association: Program?Mrs. Mattie H. Wilson, " chairman, Bethel; Sam Austin. Ma1 bel; Mrs. Sarah Horton, Valle Cru' cis; Miss Elaine Conlee, Boone; Miss Lola Mae Rowe, Green Valley. Public relations?Sam F. Horton, P chairman, Cove Creek; Mrs. Lucille Nash, Boone; Mrs. Biilie G. Cooke, Blowing Rock; Mrs. Anna Belle ' Norris, Bethel; Mrs. Velma M. Cotl trell, Deep Gap. Legislative?Mrs. Desca T. Edmis~ ten, chairman, Valle Crucis; Tom J. Mnnrlv Pmm Pmnlr Mice DArAthxj Gray, Boone; Miss Jamie Harmon, Mabel; Russell Henson, Deep Gap. Professional relations?John T. Howell, chairman, Boone; Mrs. Dora Mast, Cave Creek; Mrs. Daisy Mae Adams, Rominger; Miss Maude Wil" liams, Mabel; O. G. Winebarger, ! Winebarger. Teacher welfare?A. F. Hamrick, 1 chairman, Blowing Rock; Mrs. Marion Grimes, Boone; Emest Hillard, " Cove Creek; X. S. Miller, Elk; Arlie E. Moretz, Green Valley. Subject to the approval of the association at its first county-wide meeting, Mrs. Mattie H. Wilson of ? Bethel, Mrs. Pearle Horton of Cove Creek, and Mrs. Bessie S. Crawford : of Blowing Rock, were named vice president, secretary and treasurer, - respectively, to fill vacancies which > have arisen since the association , elected officers last spring. Speeding Motorists . - Warned by Patrolman r State Highway Patrolman Miles - Jones has received a supply of tick ets, to give motorists who are seen driving their cars over the 40-miiean-hour limit set by Federal regulations. * The highway officials are co-ope; rating in this effort by the federal 1 government, and one copy of the i ticket, giving details of tlie offense will be turned in each time to the - ration board officials. Those found ; guilty of speeding will suffer ac. cordingly in the matter of gasoline , and tire rationing. Mr. Jones respectfully asks that , motorists desist from the excess . speed, and thus save themselves the .. embarrassment of receiving thse tickets. 1 The game of basketball was in. vented in 1891 by James Naismith, '. an instructor at the YMCA college at Springfield, Mass. light $1.50 A YEAB (URY SELECTED FOR TRIAL OF DOLPHIJS THOMAS Sorth Fork Man to Be Tried for Life in Fatal Shooting of Cousin; Jury Completed at Noon Today; Other News of Superior Court Adolphus Thomas, prominent citi:en of NorU; Fork township, is on rial for his life this (Wednesday) ifternoon in Watauga superior court or the fatal shooting of a kinsman, Jon Thomas, during the month of December, 1941. Mr. Thomas was tried at the spring ;erm of court, but a mistrial resulted when the jurors failed to agree jpon a verdict. Yesterday afternoon ie was arraigned on the murder :harge, and sheriff's officers summoned a venire of 75 men. This morning work of selecting the jury moved rather rapidly, and before noon the twelve men had been selected, together with a thirteenth juror, to act in case of an emergency. Judge Zeb V. Nettles of Asheville, Is Dresidine over Writaupa reiinerini :ourt. while L. S. Spurting of Devoir, is prosecutor for the state. De'ense counsel in the Thomas action :onsist of Trivette & Holshouser and N. R. Lovill. Other cases which have been disjosed of by the court, which convened Monday, are as follows: Hardy Bolick, driving drunk. ''ined $100 and the costs. Driving icense revoked. Mrs. Bessie Phifer, driving drunk. :50 and costs. Driving license revoked. Jimmy Justus, larceny. Plead juilty to forcible trespass. Must tay for pistol, and costs of the ae:ion. A. C. Williams, Jr.. forcible trespass, prayer for judgment euntinted, with the stipulation that defendant enter the army. Paul Kluttz, driving drunk. $59 and costs. Driving license revoked. Frank Norris, driving drunk. $50 and costs. Driving license revoked. Carl Field, driving drunk. $50 and costs. Driving license revoked. Morris Fietcher. breaking and entering, larceny. Three to five years in state prison. Susan Price, assault on officer. Prayer for judgment continued for 12 months. Chas. Greene, public drunkenness. Costs. Burl R. Watson arid Wade W. Miller, false pretense. One-half the costs. Louise Rich, resisting officer. Sent to Saniarcand School for Girls. i Tom Coffey, giving liquor to minor. SO days on roads. Stanley Love, forcible trespass. Placed on probation. Ray Snyder, driving drunk. $50 and costs. G. C. McMillan and Gwendolyn Coffey, prostitution. Former to pay $25 and the costs. Prayer for judgment continued as to the latter. Marvin Miller, driving drunk. $50 and costs. *Obie Broyhiil, driving drunk. $50 and the costs. Driving license revoked. Romy Storie, driving drunk. $50 and costs. Driving license revoked. Kermit Wilcox, driving drunk. $100 and costs. Driving license revoked. Chas. Covnett, driving drunk. 60 days on roads. K ? ITGARMENTS URGENTLY NEEDED Red Cross Chapter Asks Early fnm nlpfiftH nf flormATi*c' ? . Workers Badty Needed The local Red Cross chapter asks that all who have knitted garments on hand to please complete them at the earliest possible time. The following paragraph from a letter from Red Cross headquarters will explain the urgency of this request: "Sometime ago the Red Cross agreed to furnish to the army by September 1, a total of 100,000 each of sleevless and turtle-neck sweaters, mufflers, wristlets and helmets. There was some delay in securing the yarn and because of this we realize that chapters have not been able to complete the entire quota by this time. However, to date we have received less than 50,000 of the i total quota of 400,000 accepted by The local chapter has quantities of sewing material and several ;; hundred pairs of air raid squad mittens to be crocheted. Workers are urgently needed for this work.
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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