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An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the YeaJ||?88. BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. JUNE 29. 1S44 VOL. LVL NO. 52 $1 50 A YEAR ? oe A COPY DEWEY IS ASSURED G.O.P. NOMINATION ON FIRST BALLOT j New York Governor to Win This' Afternoon: Governor Warren of California, Apparent Choice For Second Place, Withdraws From Race. Governor Thomas E. Dewey, of New York, is expected to be nomi nated for the Presidency by the Re publican party in Chicago this ?Wednesday) afternoon oiv the first ballot, speculation being that he will received no less than 800 votes on j the one and only presidential nomi- j nation roll call. j Since the Republicans began gathering in Chicago last week it has daily become more apparent that tlu- Empire Stoic- executive woiild have no difficulty in receiv ing the o.k. of the convention, and the bandwagon rush approached something of a stampede, after such states as Pennsylvania had sig nified their intention of supporting Dewey. The nomination will likely ?c made at about 1:30 this afternoon, and Dewey is expected to fly to Chi cago to deliver his acceptance ad dress. vjovernor Bricker, of Ohio, hasn't as yet withdrawn from the race and is credited with less than J00 votes, while former Governor Stassen. of Minnesota, will receive a scattering of delegate strength. Hen time, the keynoter, Governor Earl Warren, of California has eliminated himself as a candidate for the Republican vice-presidential nomination "under any circumstan ces,'' dropping a bombshell into well-prepared plans of party leaders to draft iiim as a running mate for Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Warren's statement stunned the Convention as it had been believed that while Warren did not want the nomination, he would accept if it were offered. Party leaders imme diately begun discussing Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio, an avowed can didate for the presidential nomina tion. as the inun far second place on the ticket. PLATFORM ADOPTED The Republican national conven tion late Tuesday unanimously adopted a 134-1 presidential platform calling for use of international "p<face force" to prevent future wars and pledging the party to "re-es tablishing liberty at home." The delegates adopted the plat form without discussion after hear ing Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, chairman of the resolutions com mittee, read the 4,300-word docu ment. In adopting the platform without amending its foreign jpolicy plank in any w^y, the Republicans snubbed their candidate of 1940, Wendell L. Wiilkie, who criticized it Monday night as "ambiguous and vague." Second of She Lyons Triplets Dies Today Jiramie Lyons, six months old, one of the triplets of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Lyons, of Boone, died Wed nesday morning. Janice became ill and died a week ago, leaving only one of the triplets, who had been the source of rrfuch interest in this section. The funeral services are to be con ducted from the Grace Lutheran Church Thursday afternoon, and in terment will be in the Hine ceme tery by Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home. The parents survive, together with a sister, Janette, and a broth er, Billie. Veteran Mail Carrier Dies in Wilkes County Charlie Thomas Crow. 68 years of age, former resident of Boone, died last Thursday afterioon in North Wilkesboro, following a heart attack. Funeral services were held Saturday and interment was at Edgewood Church cemetery. Mr. Crow is survived by the wid ow, Mrs. Louise Crow, and an adopt ed son, Robert Bowers, who is with the army in the South Pacific. Mr. Crow is well remembered by the people of Boone, as for many years he and Mrs. Crow carried the mail from Boone to Elk and return. In those days, a greater part of the time, the mail was carried on foot, but always came through on time, regardless of the weather. Six Inducted Into Army on Monday Six young Watauga selectees left Monday morning for Fort Bragg where they were inducted into ac tive military service. The group in cluded: * Willis Butler Swift, Jr. Daniel Adolpbus Klutz. Jr. Henry Oakes Cecil Warren Moretz Thomas Roy Matheson Fred' Carson Hodges. To Speak Here Hon. Frank Patlon, of Morgan- | ton- who will d?li???r the address at the patriotic rally an Boone on ? July ?. LOCAL VETERANS AT LEGION MEET! WzMm Lionel Ward Awarded Bryce Baud ! Trophy; Best District Com nitmdar in Stat? Local Legionnaires attending the I State Legion convention in Aahe ville last week pronounced the meeting one of the best state-wide gatherings of World War vetewuw for a number of years. Those at tending from Watauga were: H. Grady Farthing, delegate; Howard Stcelman, post commander, and Lionel Ward. J 7th district comman der; Lionel Ward was awarded tlx Bryce Baird trophy for being the best district ccmtaundcr in the state, it being his district that led the entire state in membership dur ing the year. Local legionnaires say their or ganization is now doing a rest job in 'tapping tho Meiv vrtHa ar? jxteirn ing home from Worid War 2, and is seeing that they get the benefits to which they are entitled now, rather tiian having to fight for them for years as was tht oasc following World War 1. 10,080^0000In~ Armed Forces Washihgton ? The armed forces to taled 10,080,000 officers and enlisted personnel on June I and require ments for young, able-bodied men are being met successfully, Selective Service disclosed Friday in announc ing that 159,000 of the 185,000 men induoted during May wera between 18 and 25. In a monthly draft report filed with the house military affairs com mittee, Col. Francis V. Ke^sling, Jr., said that some men 30 and over are being taken each month but they come from a group whose civilian activities "play absolutely no part in the war effort in the eyes of their local boards." Used Car Dealers to Meet in Morganton Charlotte, June 27 ? A meeting of vital importance to used car dealers at this time has been arranged by, the district office of the OPA, to be held] in the Burke county court house at Morganton, on June 30, at 2:30 p. m. It will deal. with the new regulations pertaining to ceil ing prices which will go into effect on used passenger cars on July 10. D. C - Goff, district price liaison officer, and G. J. Bennett, district commodity specialist, used cars and service, will be the principal speak ers. They will explain the used car ceiling price regulations, distribute the new ceiling prices and answer all questions pertaining to this pro gram. TWO BOONE BOYS IN INVASION OF , FRENCH BEACHES Olen R. Goodnight, M/3c. son of Mrs. J. L. Goodnight, and Cecil W. Farthing, S/lc, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed G. Farthing, of Boone, spent some time with their par ents last week, returning to tj?eir ship Sunday night for further duty. Messrs. Goodnight and Farth ing are members of the crew of the same destroyer escort, and of particular interest here is that their vessel was in the midst of the landing operations on the French coast. In line with naval tradition, the young men relate little of their experiences for pub lication. bat seem to be enjoying their part in the big drive toward Berlin, and are going right back into battle. It is that their ship returned tor farther convoy of supplies to iFLNAL PLANS ARE | MADE FOR 4TH OF JULY GATHERING Parade, Sports Events, Spceeh of Hon. Frank Patton to Be Feature of Patriotic Celebra tion; Bond Sale Arranged With Many Prizes Plans are virtually completed for the patriotic rally and bond sale to be held in Boone on July 4th under the auspices of the American Legion, Lions Club, Merchants Association and Chamber of Commerce, and in dications are that the program will attract large numbers of people from Watauga and adjoining counties. The activity of the day will hi' i gin with a pai ade which will form j iut the Baptist Church, which will j include Legionnaires, members of |the armed forces. Boy Scouts. Red l Cross workers, college and higil I school band. Merchants Associat;r.n, ? Lions Clue. and Chamber of Com merce. The parade will move through Ihe town to the courthouse lawn where a band concert of pa triotic mtmbfis wili be rendered. At 11 o'clock Kon. Frank PaUon, of MorgantoD, will deliver the address. I Mr. Pation is an outstanding Legion naire of Western North Carolina, a | very able si. .ker, and is the Re publican cand.date for Governor of his state. Foliov/irig the address there v/il! be offered at auction a large assort ment of valuable merchandise, the bids to be in the foeni of war bond purchases. At 2 o'clock there will be two or rr.ore baseball games on the college field. A number of county players liHve been secured which will make this feature outstanding. The committee on arrangements looks forward to having a large number of visitors attend the cele bration from a wide area. Axis LoMea Reach 70,000 With Fall of Big Cherbourg Port Supreme Headqufcrt?xsvAUi*d j&p" peditionnry force, June 2? ? British troops striking out quickly on the eastern Normandy front after the fall of Cherbourg which boosted Axis losses to at least 70,000 men since D-Day, yesterday outflanked the German stronghold of Caen on the road to Paris. I. ate front dispatches said the British had reached the Odon River at a point five miles southwest o? Caen after cutting the trunk high way and railway linking Caen with Villers-Bocagc and Avranches at the base of the Normandy peninsula. With the last German resistance crushed in Cherbourg, the Allies turned their growing power against the eastern side of the Normandy front where the British, who had been fighting a holding action in that area while the Americans were driving up the Cotentin peninsula, cut loose with their first great of fensive of the invasion. I Front dispatches said thai the fighting was growing more intense by the hour as guns from battle ships, /cruisers and monitors stand ing in Seine Bay and hundreds of field artillery pieces blasted paths through the German lines for the tank-land tommies striking out on a great sweep below Caen, 120 miles from Paris. As ttie third phase of the Nor mandy campaign opened on the eastern end of the 1,000-square mile Allied beachhead, it was officially disclosed that the Germans had suf fered almost 80,000 casualties thus far. Most of the prisoners taken ? the total was soaring near the 40, 000 mark last night ? were under 21 or over 28, apparently indicating a Nazi shortage of manpower in the best fighting age group. In Cherbourg, salvage veterans of Pearl Harbor and Naples were start ing to repair the great port which in a few days will be in use as the first great Allied supply funnell into Western Europe. The city fell com pletely into American hands yester day at 9 a. m. when a group of Gar- i mans who had been waging a last ditch fight in the arsenal on the western side of thie city raised the white flag of surrender. Headquarters announced that at least 20,000 prisoners had been taken in the Cherbourg area. Half- Year License Tags Now Available, Automobile tags for the last half of the current year will be on sale at the license "agency conducted here by W. R. Winkler, after July 1. Beginning then, the tags will be sold at one-half the annual fee, al though it is to be understood that auto licenses are on sale at all times ot the local agency. JAPS USING GAS Chungking ? Japanese forces, us ing mustard gas for the third time in little more than a week, Sunday pitrced outer defenses of the vital Hunan railroad junction on Hengy ang in their rapid knife-like thrust down Central China, a Chinese war communique announced. >k Force Battle at Saipan JAPAN CHINA CMUWWS& ,;nah SAI?AI SAJPAN J>A SAW?? CAROUNE" >*JHAU &:i>iuu^Snafuian HEW OUiMEA AMKOiNA, War Bond Sales Reach $66,(10 To Approach One-Half Overall Quoia; Sales o! "E" Bonds Are Lagging! To the Poegtle of this Community ICfctsre art- many utgenl reactors for huyir-s! Wfcr Hoods. FirsT, the Wftmeta Deeds mouey. B<huSk pay fee ptenc3 and guns and aiuniUons "" ? WitK which t. bast the Aatt Cter fight iue m?n must htvfe the best pi>35iWff eauip TntKil sad Is it ?We this. A second reason is this: There is a shortage of goods now. Later on there will be piccty for civilian de sires. Money put into War Bonds new will he available then. Busi ness opportunities will bo open then, too, mid the "nest egg" saved now may hatch out commercially then. Money put into War Bonds now will be deprived of its current po tentiality A3 a part of the causes of inflation. You will bft doing your part toward stabilizing the money situation by buying Bonds instead of dwindling stocks. That is a third reason. Bui th? best reason from a selfish .viewpoint i? this: Bight now there is na better investment than War yw,,... .CRM.. strongest "going" coacenj in the world today, the United States of America. THE EDITOR. Lt. Stewart Scott Is Wounded In France First Lieu!.. Stewart Scott. son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H, Scot!, of Mill Creek, formerly of Boone, has been wounded in ilia invasion of France, his parents have been informed by the War Department, but details are not furnished. Lt. Scott, who is well known here, is a graduate of Appalachian Col lege. Lions Club Has Annual Picuic The Boone Lioas Club held its annual picnic at Camp Fiesta, Fos coe, last Wednesday evening. A chicken dinner was prepared by Lion Paul A. Coffey. Following the picnic dinner. Prof. C. A. Turner, visiting professor in the graduate school at Appalachian College, en tertained the Lions and Lionesses with tricks and magic. Later in the evening, games and square dancing were enjoyed by the club at the pavilion in the camp. The entertainment of the evening was under the direction of Lion Cratis Williams. Special credit is due Lion Paul A. Coffey for his excellent work in preparing the chicken dinner. [Local Drug Store Far Ahead in Bond Quota Dr. G. K, Moose, owner of the Boone Drug Company, whose estab lishment was asked to sell tlie equivalent of $300 per employee, says that his employees have sold the equivalent of their quota three times already and are still receiv ing applications. The druggists of North Carolina are attempting to sell bonds in a sum sufficient to purchase five giant new ambulance planes for the transport of wounded men in the battle areas. ' ? - * ? *? ? Sales of War Bonds in the Fifth War Lour, campaign have reached , $66,387.50 in WataMga county, as of : Tuesday evening, says Mr. W. D. ! Farthing, chairman of the War Snv ings Stiff. who points out th$t this lis almost out-half of the e>v*?ill quota for fie counJy, but tb$t Jw? quota tor bonds of *"E" iftri^g his ; been less than one-fourth sufoshribMi with sales c-f $36,397.50. L. Jfe. Who art; making every effort to sec thai Watauga again exceed her quota, are urging that Wata>igans subscribe now for these government securities and thus put the force of their dollars behind the men who are fighting on battlefronts around the world. Recent successes of our military machine, they say, should not produce a feeling of easy com placency among the people, and they shpuld now, more than ever be fore, buy every war bond pos sible. To do otherwise would be letting down the men upon whose heroic deeds our security and free j dom depend. drouthbWgs WATER SHORTAGE j Mayor Asks Citizens of Town to Conserve Water: Farmers Look: i in Vain for Rain The protracted dry weather is gradually creating a water shortage for Boone, Mayor Gordon H. Wink ler said Monday, and he has notified city service stations to refrain from using water for car -washing, etc., until the rains come. Household ers are asked not to make use of the dwindling supply of water for wat ering lawns, etc. The mayor states that the water shortage will be critical if no rains fall for another week. In the meantime farmers of the counties are anxiously looking for rain, and reports indicate thai some crops arc suffering for moisture. Pastures are dying, and cattlemen in some instances have turned herds into meadow land. Weather continues hot with little signs of the inurh-needed rains. STATE PRIVILEGE LICENSE REQUIRED BY JUNE 30TH All merchants and professional people, subject to N. C. State Sched ule- "B" license for the fiscal year 1944-45 are required by law to have proper license on or before June 30. Failure to do so will incur penalty, says F. L. German, deputy collector. Big Bass Entered j In Fish Contest j By Local Anglers j The bass fishing coolest being conducted by B. W. Stallings. lo cal jeweler, and sportsman, got off to a good start Monday when two big bass were caught, and duly entered at the City Meat Market, where they were the sub ject of much comment Tuesday. The larger of the two fish was landed by Dr. R. C. Busteed of Boone, and the bass weighed 3 pounds. 12 Vi ounces. Lee Stoat, also of Boon*, caught a bass which weighed 2 pounds, 8Vi ounces. The fish were 20Vi and 18 inches long, respectively, and both were taken from the waters of New River in Ashe county. WOMAN SAYS SHE STRUCK DECEASED; mm BOTTLE USED Mrs. Edna Iih.vmer Makes Con fession Jo Ofiticers :n RfcgAri to Tragic Death of I>avw5 C. Guy; Mrs. Maggie Hicks R? k-ased From Jail Mrs. Edna Oliver Rhymer, after sever?.! hours of questioning last Friday, toJd tVatauga officers and an agent of the State Bureau oi In vestigation. that she engaged in an i altercation with David Crockett Guy Saturday night a week ago, and struck him on the head with a wir.e bottle, alleging tfiet he had made improper advances toward, her, according to State Patrolman C. M. Jones, one of the investigat ing officers. The body of Guy. a resident of the Beech Creek section, was found ? floating in the Watauga River the following Sunday, and a post mor tem examination revealed that he had been struck violent blows on the head with some object before being cast into the water. Medical opinion v.as that a cut or. a wrist could have caused death from bleed ing, since there w as no sfcuti frac ture or concussion. Patrolman Jones slated that Mrs. Rhymer had said she and Newland Dots vi were with Guy in Guy's car a* the time of the altercation, and retracted a forme r statement that two men and a woman robbed tnem and Cook the deceased man away. According to the confession, say officers, Dotsoo was asleep at the time Guy is supposed to have made. improper advances on Mrs. Hhymer at a joint whirs the ear was stop ped ntjsr the river, that she struck htm with the bottle; that they gut $ntg$ 'out of the car and oibet ticks were ? struck, and that Gviy was left sit ting tn the road. She stated they looked for him later but couW not -iMa find htev At Shis point, it is alleged the officers .wens notified. Mrs; Gay had pzxsviausly told w Sieers that Her deceased husband UM-rjod $1,000 on his person when Kfe. left home the day *>f tm death. ?-<*> The hfllfolS m svhiib tile money was carried, was missing from the body. ? Dotson and Mrs. Rhymer are still being held in .{he county jaii pend ing a preliminary hefcring. Mrs. Maggie flicks, 4r sister of Mrs. Rhy mer, was released from jail Friday," following the confession, it is said. Doe Ridge Church Is Dedicated Sunday Services dedicating the remodel ed Dor Ridge Baptist Church were held Sunday, the pastor, Rev Fonda Karp. prenching In the forenoon, and P.ev. J. C. Canipe of Boone, deliver ed the dedicators' sermon in the al't ernoou. Dinner was served on the grounds ar.d choirs from the Oak Grove and Mountain Dale churches were present. Doe Ricige Church wax formed in 18S4. with an original membership of 21, largely drawn from the How ard's Creek Church. Eight of the charter members are now living. Records show that the late Rev. J. M. Payne was the first pastor. Mr. Elijah Trivett served as the church's first clerk. Rev. Mr Payne served as pastor for about 11 year, and then Rev. Edmund Greene was elected. Among others who served the church were Rev. J. F. Davis, Rev. Carlton. Rev. John Crisp, and Rev. William Penneli. Pfc. Jake Miller Wounded in Battle On French Beachhead Mrs. HaUie Miller of Boone Haute 2, has received word that her son, Pfc. J. H. (Jake) Miller, was woun ded in the invasion of France and is now in a hospital in England. The press dispatch of the action in which he was wounded will be of interest ' Monte bou rg. or, the Cherbourg peninsula, was captured bv troops cf the American Fourth Division alt er the suffest fighting these men have yet had. "German dead are estimated at 2.000 and wounded at 1.200. "Larry Leseur. reporter for Amer ica's Columbia Broadcasting System, sent this message from the town last night "After smashing German storm battalions, which bicycled over from Cherbourg, leading units of the Fourth Division were held up out side Montebourg for two days. They ? bombarded the town heavily and called on the navy to destroy the tower of the medieval church which the Germans were using as an ob servation post It was only after knocking the Germans out of the tower that tire Americans cou'd advance without coming under direct artillery fire. "The Germans counter-attacked repeatedly with a small number of, tanks and fought stubbornly in the streets all Monday night. They were mopped up at dawn yester day." '
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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