Newspapers / Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.) / May 27, 1943, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
tEXLOT XX UX'TED STATES m M WAR m/% ao??s f STAMPS 1||U VOLUME LV?NO. 48. U. S. AIRMENSTART BLITZ ON ITALY AS THOUSANDS FLEE Bombs Being Sown Like Wheat As Thousands of Italians FI.ec North From Tip of Italy: Rome Has Received Large Numbers of Those Seeking Escape. Thousands of bomb-dazed refugees were reported Tuesday as fleeing north from southern Italy and from islands in the Mediterranean as American warplanes "sowing bombs like wheat" heaped fresh destruction cn Sardinia, Sicily, and the Italian mainland. Reports reaching Switzerland said an exodus was under way front many towns of the Italian boot, with Rome already receiving thousands attempting to escape the Allied bombardment. With Allied planes stepping up the fury of their assault on the "invasion trail" into southern Europe, Italy's Crown Prince Umberlo was quoted by the British radio as wanting Italians that they were short of amis and must throw all of their cnirilnol anrl nbtroimil wr..<vMui uuu {juj oivai uitcngui vi iivi the struggle. ? Premier Mussolini was said to have called parly chiefs of the Home district last night and given them new orders?presumbaly dealing with . measures to combat an allied invasion. E. C. Daniel, Associated Press >j correspondent in London, said the deterioration of Axis power and civilian defenses under the weight of Allied air might, combined with high expectations of the outcome of the Roosevelt-Churchill conference in Washington is brightening the summer war picture today for the United Nations. Axis Airmon Desert Sardinia. ? Although the German radio re- J ported that Nazi troops had been sent to reinforce the defense of Sar- ' dinia, allied pilots said the Axis air ' squadrons had vanished from the It- 1 alian outpost on Sunday. In Germany, the official Nazi party x newspaper declared that there was not one person in the heavily-raided ' Ruhr cities who had not suffered personal or family loss as the result of 1 the air attacks. Air observers in London asscsing I the results of the heaviest raid of all time on Dortmund Sunday night, v suggested the RAF strategy was de- c signed to pile up cumulative ill effects of the bombing on the strategic . Ruhr area Having wrecked Essen's war plant ! ?including the sprawling Krupp works, the RAF was reported by air i correspondents to have turned hea vy attention to Dortmund because it absorbed much of Essen's former , production load. Dortmund Fixes Still Rage. The raid, which for the first time \ was claimed to have beaten down the powerful Ruhr defenses, also was . aimed at one of the principal cities I in the path of one of the floods creat- ' ed the week before by cracking two i of Germany's great water reservoirs, \ the Sder and Moehne. One report from the Morocco raid < said fires were still raging in Dort- v mund, and were out of control because of shortage of water caused by the dam burstings. Observers speculated that thousands of the Ruhr's civilian defenders v still were engaged in flood relief t work when the bombers struck ag- a ain. j Coal Users Urged To Buy Supply Now c New York, May 25.?Howard A. e Gray, deputy solid fuels administrat- ^ or for war, said today that "coal is going to ge? tighter and tighter and tighter this year," and advised con- . sumers to "get every ton in your 1 stockpile that you can. You won't ' be sorry later." _ Gray, in an address prepared for " delivery before the annual conven- s tion of the National Association of Purchasing Agents, said industrial coal users should "seize every opportunity to build stockpiles .n essential war industries to ninety to 120 days' supply and for other industrial users to sixty to ninety days supply.".. Bond Quota Is Surpassed in First 15 Days of May rm_ , _ ( aiie saies 01 series Jii war Donas i in Watauga county for the period I May 1-15 amount to $18,675.00, the \ quota for the entire month being : only $16,992.00, says Mr. W. D. Far- ] thing, general chairman of the war 1 savings staff for Watauga county, j Mr. Farthing says that the figures < given come from reports of the Fed- i eral Reserve Bank at Richmond. < (ATAI An Indepe BOONE, WAT Former Merchant Dies ^ v. mm: WEBm mBH^; ;. Wp *8Bg3ME Craig Hollar, former Boone bus iness man whose death was chron- j iciea lasi week in tttese columns. Funeral services were concluded from ihe Three Forks Church last Thursday afternoon, and the large crowd and the size of the floral offering bore evidence as io the esteem in which ihe deceased was held in the community. IAPSr(:ORMLEI) ON Anil-BLOWS STRUCK AT KfSKA Twelve Bombers Are Believed Destroyed In Attacks On Island and Skips in Struggle for Posiiions in Aleutians; U. S. Holds Whip Hand. Washington, May 25.?Decimated lap defenders on Attu have been queezed into the narrow Chichagof larbor peninsula and are bing slowy annihilated by American troops, Iriving forward through sleet, cold ind rain, the navy reported today n a communique disclosing a new 'xchange of aerial blows in the south vest Pacific. Secretary of- the Navy Frank Cnox told his press conference the Taps have been "corralled on the pelinsula" and that the battel conlinled. The communique revealed that the ix swift Army Lockheed fighters vhich intercepted 16 Jap bombers iff Attu Sunday probably destroy d seven of the raiders in addition o the five definitely shot down. The aps jettisoned their bombs without nflicting damage ivhen sighted. Ony four of them were seen to escape vestward, probably to the big Jap iase at Paramushiru in the Kurile slands. Army planes continued dropping lombs on Kiska, strong Jap base, lot outflanked by American occulation of Attu and next on the north ....... ?v. - i.i uv-nn- icuun^ucoi ACUCUUie. FATHER OF WATERS 3N MAD RAMPAGE loldiers Fight to Hold Levees Against Flood Waters Of Mississippi. A host of soldiers and civilians f vere reported Tuesday night as fighing to hold the leveees still standing igainsl the devastating waters rushng down the Mississippi and Illinois 'alleys. Lt. Col. W. F. Lawlor of the U. m 5. engineers reported every levee \ in the Illinois side of the Mississippi I ror.i Columbia to Gale?approximat- f :ly 90 miles?had broken, but the t vails on the Illinois bank between . Vlton and East St Louis withstood 1 he terrific pressure. |V jwonnwara a weaK spot aeveiopea *i n the earthen levee protecting the f ?ast part of low-lying Beardstown. i 111, from the rampaging Illinois rivet t md sandbags were rushed to the ? trained section, it was said. T 160,000 Homeless t Meanwhile, with 160,000 persons t nomeless in a six-state area and i nore than 3,000,000 acres inundated, ;tate and federal officials took steps ] o help the refugees and plan measires to get food production underway >gain. An appeal for volunteer workers was issued by Herman Huxel, in :harge of the central control room >f the office of civilian defense at * Granite City, 111. He stated more nanpower was needed to avert a 11 jreach in the Tri-City levee that 1 would endanger the whole industrial * irea across the Mississippi from St. i Louis, Mo. Army engineeers figured lowever, that the situation was improved somewhat with the passing )f the crest, but that replacements t were required to insure a ceaseless i struggle. r JGA 1 indent Weekly NewspaperAUGA COUNTY. NORTH CAROL! SEVENTY-FIVE GO TO ARMY AS MAY QUOTA OF COUNTY Vatauga Youths Are Accepted For Military Duty in Current Call of Draft Board: Names Of Those Accepted for Duty ill Armed Services. Seventy-five Watauga county men, ie current quota from the local Serctive Service Board, have been acepted for military duty at Camp :roft Spartanburg. S. C. The names f those accepted follow: York Alton Trivette (transfer) Boyd Ray Blanton Bill William Dotson Tom Lewis Council! Joseph Ehvood Roberts Jonas Brady Yarborough (transfer) Anderson Triplett Greene. Olina Denver Greene Isaac G. Hodges, Jr. Carl Sergeant Hampton P' John Lee Tatum lc William Darrel Baira t? Hoyle Hampton Davis (transfer) pi Lyda Aldeen Watson (transfer) Levi William Harmon (transfer) . Ernest C. Lewis Lo Wayne Jack Cuudill (transfer) Dcna Roby Ford John T. King Joel Lawrence Coffey James Wiley Vines Earl Smitliennan Johnson Leon Wellborn Lincoln Ross Minton Douglas Colen Slorie (transfer) i David Albert Moody 1 Malcom Frederick Smith Stacy Clyde Eggers, Jr. Robert David Harmon Arney Willie Triplett Blaine James Eilcr Cecil Watts Farthing Homer Ray Cornetl Dayton Wiliiam Proffit Silas V. M. Greer Thomas liar Hollaway, Jr. Richard Dee Greene Ulysses Glen Elliott Carson Howard Presncli Zeb Vance Trivett Robert Wt Triplett, Jr. Frank John Phillips Victor Hill Greene Dillard Aldridgfe Lloyd Harold Ragan ( Julian Flinoy Ragan hai Dewey Martin Watson firJames Perry Marsh Ca Rom Linney Cornett the Ralph Muriel Brown lio: Bynum Lloyd Presnell Tu Dave Cleveland Woodring Edward Bynum Stokes, Jr. Claude Elijah Harman jlli William Hiram Sluder Albert James Baker Ilk Charles Cowles Rogers, Jr. 11 Thomas Recce Roberts Edward Leonard Hardy ?. John Lloyd Hayes ; Lloyd Silas Proffitt Arlis Shull William Earl Peniek, Jr. Smith Adam Harman M Spencer Wilburn Phillips that William Smith McGuire didl Eugene Fiimore Bumgarner clea Dennis William Canter amo Lane Ray Greer ed. ? JJUW1U \JICCIIC n Olan Rhodes Goodnight som Clyde Benjamin Baird paid Clyde Anders Hayes the Quentin Thomas Johnson veni Ira Dell Richardson, Jr. Spec clea Memorial Services thei _ vacj To Be Held May 30th may mer T1 The ex-service men of the County heir vill hold the annual Memorial Ser- 0f t ice on May 30th 11 a. m. with the true ?ount Vernon Baptist Church. The tele lount Vernon Choir will conduct pPI he song service together with Spec- j al songs. Mrs. Warm an of Boone rill deliver the sermon. Mrs. War- A nan is a very able speaker and we Bet eel rather fortunate in being able to Ma; lave her on this program. I'm sure Sch here will be much in store for ev- Far ryone who attends this service. The t rnblic is invited and especially are will he fathers and mothers of the boys ser\ vho are in service, and who can- oih lot now be present. he . T Poppy Sale is to Be coir Held Next Saturday 2 p. hist Mrs. Fred Winkler, president of he American Legion Auxiliary an- . tounces the annual poppy sale for >aiuraay May za, and asks for Vol- ^ nteer workers to meet the Chairman pos ills. Charles Younce at the Boone Jargain Store early Saturday mornng. ry COURT HOUSE ALSO CLOSES esti The offices at the court house will liot >e closed on Wednesday afternoons, cor n line with the action of other busi- me: less houses. rati 3EM( ?Established in the Ye NA. THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1? Guard Allied Fc Police carefully scrutinize reporit asses before admitting them to thi i in Hot Springs. Va., where Alliec ^national Food conference. The re roblems affecting the whole world cal Merchant Honored |] Hk. ' I ^ / 19 Ri i^n 9& ' Hyde R. Greene, popular local ( rdware merchant, was made the it vice-president of the North rolina Merchants Association, at i final session of the organizan meeting held in Raleigh on j esday. ANYTAKEPART i I CLEAN UP DRIVE i yor Winkler Says Citizens Responding Splendidly to Clean-Up Appeal. ayor Gordon H. Winkler states 1 the people are responding splen- , y fo his appeal for a general . n up of the city, and that a large >unt of rubbish has been remov- 1 owever, says Mayor Winkler, t e of the residents of the city have I no heed to his suggestion that ? city be cleaned up at the ad- t t of the summer season. He re- ( tfully asks these to cooperate and j r away all the rubbish about ] r homes, business buildings, or j mt lots, to the end that the city | ' be attractive when our sum- , visitors begin to arrive, he Mayor states that rubbish is \ ig gathered on the regular rounds \ the city trucks, and that extra , king service may be secured by , phoning the city hall. \ DICATION SERVICE TO IE HELD AT BETHEL CHURCH dedication service will be held at hel Baptist church on Sunday f 30, beginning with Sunday ool at 11 a. m. war time, Carl thing superintendent, he pastor, Rev. W. D. Ashley. ; be in charge of the dedication dee, and song service led by John ' /er, also some special songs by and his quartet, here will be an address of welle by E. J. Farthing, followed by ecess and dinner on the ground. m., singing, followed by church ory by Bert Farthing; dedication non by Rev. R. H. Shore, followby dedicatory prayer by the pas laiKs by iormers pastors and ers; songs, closing prayers, he program committee is corned of Bert Farthing and W. W. son. Freight Rates The Office of War Information imates that more than 350 mil1 dollars a year will be saved sumers, including the Governnt, by the reduction in freight ss, effective May 15. > ' ^ '~r"~ "' srs, cameramen, and their press e grounds of ihe Homestead Ho1 representatives attended the In- | presentatives met to discuss food RATION BOOK NO. 3 SOON TO BE ISSUED 'Vpplications for New Book Arc! Now Being Received By Watauga Citizens. Applications for war ration book no. 3 are being received by the citizens of Watauga county. These eards are to be filled out and mailed between June 1 and June 10, it is explained. The mailings of books will begin June 20. Application cards are being mailed to the head of each family. If the eard is not received by June 5, one is asked to call at the general del-1 ivery window of the postofficc and! ;et a copy before June 10. The applications- are easily and juickly filled out. D. J. Whitener, the Community Service Member of OPA for Watauga County, has made arrangements to have at the postofEice in Boone between June 5 and 10. a representative to assist any person who needs help. Rural mail carriers and postoffice employees, according to postmaster J. Edgar Brown, will be glad to assist in filling out the blanks. It is pointed out that the application must be signed. No card is valid with the name printed at the bottom. Nelson Sees Shorter War If U. S. Peoples All Labor Together New York, May 25.?Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the war proluction board said that "the war can ae shortened a year if we all keep jur minds on the particular job we ire doing and on the job of winning he war." Nelson, who spoke at the first :ession of the conference of the Naional Association of Purchasing Ag;nts, said he could not tell his audence when the war would end. "All ! can do is urge labor and manage- i nent and all Americans to work and | mild as if the war were a never-enling war," he continued. "The democratic system is on trial ioday," he said, adding that the sys:em's workability could not be proved by undue profits, black markets or by "belaboring each other and [earing each other apart." Widow of President Taft Dies At Age 81 Washington, May 24.?Mrs. William Howard Taft, who during her | eighty-one years saw her husband l become president and then Chief Justice of the United States and one of her sons become a Senator, died Saturday. Ill for one year and a half, Mrs. | Taft died at her home where she had lived much of the time since she first came to the capital with her husband when he was inauguartcd in March, 1909. Mrs. Taft was credited by friends urith hfiino thn nAlitipal monirtr frti. her husband, who urged him on through the various channels that led to his nomination and election as president. Their son Robert was elected to the United States Senate from Ohio in 1938. Another son, Charles P., Taft, is serving in the wartime job of assistant director of the office of defense health. Mrs. Taft will be buried Tuesday at Arlington National cemetery, at the side of her husband. $1.50 A YEAR?5c A COPY JUDGE GIVES WRIT OF MANDAMUS IN BEER LICENSE CASE Resident Judge States It is Mandatory for License to Sell Beer to be Issued by Officials Under State Law; Boone Cafe Operator Had Brought Suit. Resident Superior Court Judge Wilson Warlick issued a writ of man iamus in Newton Saturday in a hearing called by B. G. Teams, of Boone. tb-. T~> iwi uit iwvvii ui ouone, requesting that he- be issued license to sell wine and beer. It is mandatory that such a license be issued under the North Car olina statute. Judge Warlick. pointed out, adding that all provisions regarding the conduct ot the applicant must also correspond with the statute. Mr. Teams originally called lor a hearing against the county but that case was first postponed, because the town and county had not been given proper notification, and subsequently ended in a voluntary nonsuit since a county cannot grant licenses within a municipality until the town has given such permission. Teams contended that when he first applied for a renewal of his license lie was told that it had been decided that no more wine and beer permits would be issued in the county, according to Floyd Crouse of Sparta, who was Teams' attorney. Wade E. Brown and W. R. Lovill represented the town of Boone in the hearing. George W. Greer Dies At Age 77 Pikeville, Ky., May 22.?George W. Greer, 77, proprietor of one of the largest root and herb businesses in the nation, died yesteray after an illness of six months. Mr. Greer, who was a native of Watauga County, N. C., established in Pikeville 35 years ago and became district representative of R. T. Greer and Co., operated by his cousin R. T. Greer of Marion. Va. George W. Greer & Co., which has branches in Virginia and North Carolina, dealt in botanicals such as ginseng, yellow root and others, harvested by natives in the mountain areas served by the firm. He is survived by five sons, Guy Greer, of New York; Captain Raymond Greer of the Navy; Cecil Greer of Marion Va.; Stanley Greer of Columbus, Ohio; and George Greer, Jr.. of Marion; and three daughters, Mrs. Louise Crane, of Chicago; Mrs. Fletcher Sharp of Pikeville, and Mrs. Ancel Culberson of Prestonburg. Stamps For Canning Sugar Are Now Valid Stamps for sugar for canning purposes, numbers 15 and 16, in war ration book number one, are good for five pounds each from May 24, to October 31. It is requested that there be no applications for canning sugar until the stamps mentioned for the entire family have been used. It is specified that this sugar is to be used for canning only and should be bought only when ready to use. College Scholarships Offered Farm Boys Raleigh, May 24.?Twenty scholarships worth $100 each are available at N. C. State College for worthy farm boys desiring to enter the School of Agriculture and who need financial assistance, Dr. Z. P. Metcalf, director of instruction, annaunced today. The awards are open to high school raduates who have not attended any college. Dr. Metcalf will select the youths to receive the scholarships, which will be good for the 1943-44 school year, and application blanks may De secured Dy writing to him. The scholarships are provided annually by Sears, Roebuck and Company. Since the series began in 1939 the scholarships have assisted 80 farm boys to enter State College. In setting up the scholarships the firm announced: "We feel that it is only natural that business should cooperate in any way possible in developing our most basic of all in? I- ik- ~ uuauic? m me souin, iarming, 'i'o do that seems to be to aid in the development of a better farm leadership." The firm requires merely that the money shall go to needy farm youths "who have made the most of their opportunities in high school and on the farm."
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
May 27, 1943, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75