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.WORKiraKS RSC^EBTIFIED
Raletjh, Sept. IB.—C. C. Mc
Ginnis, state WPA admlnistra-
ter. said today that 1,802 WPA
workers ftred because of the 18-
month retirement clause had been
recertltted for relief and an un
determined number had been as
signed to projeoW^! A total of 10,-
167 employes of the relief agen
cy hare been laid off, he said.
Workers already recertified, he
added, were dismissed In the
first few days the proTlslon was
effective and have served the re
quired 30-day waiting period.
WHISKY UP
Raleigh, Sept. 16.—Legal li
quor salee In North Carolina this
year for eight months totaled |4,-
1 166.067.25, up 3178,108.40 over
sales for the same 1938 period.
State ABC Board Chairman Cut-
lar Moore said today. For the
first two months of this fiscal
year, salee are up 3149,510.75
from last year, July-August sell
ing totaling 31,132.216.30. Re
ceipts for August in the state
were 3585,876.90, about 15 per
cent more than August, 1938,
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Public Assistance
In Wilkes County
$7,000 For Month
Needy Aged Receiring Al
most $S,000 Per Month;
ADC Cases $1,429
Public assistance funds paid
out to needy residents of Wilkes
county for this month totaled
near 37,000, figures released to
day from the office of Charles
McNeill, county superintendent of
welfare, showed.
Old age assistance vouchers to
needy persons over 65 years of
age went to 570 people for a to
tal of 34.990.50.
Aid to dependent children went
to 115 families for 304 children
and totaled 31,429. Thirty-five
blind received 3483.
In addition to the public as-
Helping Hand
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33 cases
sales of 3500,937.85. Wake coun-; ,
ty’s 376,919.50 sales last month I general relief pro-
led the state, with Durham’s 370,-
998.40 coming second.
Received Near Here
Sunday Evening
PLEADS FOR PEACE
Washington, Sept. 15.— Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh urged A- j
merlca tonight to keep carefully |
out of Knrope’s war, asserting,
that “If we enter fighting for de
mocracy abroad, we may end by
losing It’’ here at home. “We
mast not be misguided by this
foreign propaganda to the effect
that our frontiers lie tu Europe,”
the famous flier said in an ad
dress prepared for broadcast by
all major networks. “One need
j)nly glance at a map to see where
our true frontiers He. What more
conld we ask than the Atlantic
ocean on the east and the Pacific
on the west. * • * An ocean Is a
formidable barrier even for mod
ern aircraft.’’
RUSSIA-JAP PEACE
Moscow, Sept. 15.—Soviet Rus
sia and Japan today agreed to
an armistice In their "vestpocket”
war on the troubled Manchoukuo-
Outer Mongolia border In a move gauseu mm lo laii unaer lue rear
which some diplomatic quarters ^heel, which dragged him several
saw as a possible forerunner to a ... ,i.—
non-aggression pact. The agree
ment to end hostilities on the
frontier between Japaneee-doml-
nated Manchoukuo and sovletized
Outer Mongolia was announced ^
through Tass, soviet official news | charges m uia,r»iou6..r
agency. Japanese-Manchoukuoan : under the
and sovlet-Mongolian forces had guc© of liquor,
been fighting intermittently
Of WiOces Piil^
Libra^ Thursday
Institution To Have Open
■ House In New Quarters
In City Hall Building
Formal opening of the Wilkes
i County Public Library in Its new
quarters In the new city hall will
1)0 on Thursday, September 21,
three to nine p. m., Mrs. Frank
Johnson, chairman of the library
board of trustees, said today.
The library is now occupying
the spacious room In the city ball
...ipecially constructed for library
use. It Is well lighted. Is very
pleasant and Is conveniently ar
ranged.
New equipment has been add
ed. including chairs which were
donated by Jim Williams. New
books added to the shelves re
cently total 175 volumes and oth
ers will be added as the Income
from the rental shelf permits,
ttrst evacuaiea, wey ncip vw . * i
er don knapsacks containing g.s i The total number of volume now
mask and emergency rations. i with the library la over 2,000.
I The board of trustees is ask
ing that all who have hooks
which they wish to glv© to the
; library to take them to the libr
ary on Thursday. It was oxplaln-
■ ed In the announcement that last
I year’s book club volumes will be
suitable for use on the rental
shelf.
, The trustees extend a cordial
Dies Today From Injuries May Be Held Between Sep- jnyjtation to all to visit the libr-
■safe ^
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These two London children took
grim evacuation preparations ss s
lark. Part of the 3,000,000 children,
women and invalids who were
first evacuated, they help each oth
Europe Lin^ JJp for i Second World War | Fhre-Day £Yent
Hiijoyed By Mm^
^bitS
gram of the county.
Lenoir Resident Is|Tobacco Vote In
Killed By A FalljWilkes County To
From Car Sunday:Take Place Soon
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New Car GivenTo 'Littln
Miss Mary Jane Martin,
Of Jonesville
Fonnie Jlgglns, Lenoir resi
dent, died at the Wilkes hospital
here early this morning from in
juries received Sunday evening
when he f©H from a car on Gor
don Hill west of this city on
highway 421.
According to Information gath
ered by officers Investigating the
accident, Luther Greene, also of
Lenoir, was driving the
w'hich belonged to Higgins,
tember 30 and October
7; Officials Named
Announcement of the forth
coming tobacco referendum in
Wilkes was made today by the
Wilkes county AAA office.
Although the date has not been
definitely set for the vote
throughout the tobacco growing
seeJons of the country, Wilkes
- — officials said that it Is generally
car, I understood that the election will
and I be between September 30 and Oc-
that Gus Phillips, of Lenoir, was tober 7.
a third occupant. | Registration books will be open
ary on formal opening day.
Late Briets fpOo^iobile
Of War News Kttams To Serve
In Wilkes County
Map shows Uneop of nations mder .present Enropean alllsnceo.
Poland, Franee and tbe itrlUah empire are aligned against Germany ia
the conflict, with Italy and Bassis Hated sa “doubtful.” Spain, hitherto
considered pro-Nazi, is expected to remain neutral as a resnlt of the
Nasl-Sovlet noiMggresaioa pact.
Germany, triumphant over Po
land's armies, struck back at the |
British blockade on the seas to-
day when a Nazi U-boat sank the
big arrersft carrier Courageous.
Disclosing the underwater at
tack In an announcement Indlcat-
Schcx>ls Will Be Included On
Itinerary Duriiig Next
Several Weeks
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Apparently Higgins fell from | . homes of registrars and at Ing a number of British casual-
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the car and the door hit him and office of the county agent in |ties but expressing belief that^tne
caused him to fall under the rear
Wllkesboro from now until the
date of the election, the an
nouncement said.
The county committee met on
the disputed frontier since
11.
on
May
yards. He was carried to the hos
pital by ambulance and his body
was so badly mangled that no
hope was held for his recovery.
Phillips was held on a charge
of drunkenness and Green on
of manslaughter ^“1pieces:
influ- . .
1. Traphill and Walnut Grove
German submarine had been
sunk, the British government
f.iced momentous immediate de-
cision.s in a European war front
Saturday. September 16th. and , that had changed drastically over
designated tho places that the to-j the week-end.
£cco election would be held and! Soviet Russian troops, ordered
DaCco eieciiuii ,„„M„„.on “a mission of emancipation’’
named the registrars, election on ^ a^^
miles into Eastern Poland along
A hearing was scheduled to
be held this afternoon before
Magistrate R. C. Jennings.
will vote at J. Z. Adams’ store, J.
Z. Adams, registrar.
2. Edwards will vote at Ben-
The body of Higgins was re- ; ham, J. A. Poplin, reg s ra .
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U. S. SEA CONTROL
Washington, Sept. 15.—Presi
dent Roosevelt today, in a sweep
ing extension of the United
States’ control of the seas, declar
ed that our territorial waters ex
tend as far out as American in
terests require them to go. The
President’s broad statement of ‘Rec’pe For Happiness’ Sub
sea policy served notice that the ject of Address By Rev
United States extends its jurisdic
tion and its rights of using do
mestic policing powers to protect (
turned to Lenoir for burial.
Lenoir Minister Is
Kiwanis Speaker
a 500-mIle front.
American shipping from attack,
far out into the Atlantic and Pa
cific ocean. President Roosevelt’s
momentous utterance asserting
American rule over vast contingu-
ous seas came in his press con
ference this momlng. Closely fol
lowing his statement of Tuesday
that the United States would pro
tect the sovereignty of Canada
aod the French and British Is-
in the western hemisphere,
it constituted a new and sensa
tional dl3clOBure of the rule being
made for the United States In
the war-torn world.
Two Places Are
Entered In City
Thieves fake $20 From
Bare’s -Fair Store; 8
From Nath Ford’s
Two establishments In North
Wilkeeboro were entered by
thieves last week. Police Chief
John Walker said today.
On Thursday night one or more
persons entered Bare’s Fair Store
on Tenth street and took about
126 in cash from two cash regls-
Entrance was gained by
breaking a window pane and
tnming the window lock.
^ FlngerprinU have been Uken
^ police are hopeful of appre-
hendln* the fullty partly.
On Wednesday, al*kt Nath
Joseph Hyatt
Rev. Joseph Hyatt, of Lenoir,
addressed the North Wilkesboro
Kiwanis club Friday noon, his
subject being "A Recipe For Hap
piness.” The program was in
charge of Rev. A. L. Aycock.
Some of the principal points of
his address, which was well re
ceived by the club, follow:
“It is not age. Neither youth
nor old age 1s a guarantee to hap
piness. It is not a full pock-
etbook. Money Is no guarantee to
happiness. It is not position. The
pastures are always greener Just
ahead. Work, to a worthy end Is
surely a step toward happiness.
Looking ahead, with faith and
hope assures happiness. Learning
to adjust oneself, is a happy
trait and brings reward. Learn
ing to renounce is a trait toward
happiness. Linklng-up with big
things, is a sure way to find hap
piness. We must avoid worry. Jt
is filling hospitals, cemeteries,
and was the cause for 20,000
suicides last year In the United
States. We are therefore bound
to look on the bright side if we
would be happy.”
County Agent Dan Holler was
elected as an additional'' delegate
to the district convention. G. H.
Sluss, of Bluefield, W. Va., and
J. D. Holcomb, of Elkin, were
visiting Klwanians.
PAST MASTERS* NIGHT
AT MASONIC LODGE
North Wilkeeboro Lodge No.
407, A. F. and A. M. will have
“Past Masters’ Night,” Friday
evening, September 22, 7:30 o’-
nlQck,* honoring all Past Masters.
m A'. tSke progtais la being planned,
i f AtteAdmace ia expected,
are cordiUi./
2. Edwards will vote at Ben-
ham, J. A. Poplin, registrar.
3. New Castle will vote at
Cllngman, C. M. Wollborn, reg-
i.strar.
4. Somers and Lovelace will
vote at Somers schoolhouse, Al
bert Myers, registrar.
5. All other townships will
vote at Wilkesboro, U. A. Miller,
registrar.
All producers who have allot
ments and who allowed their
farms to be checked will not have
to register. Only the following
classes of tobacco producers will
have to register:
(a.) Those who have tqbacco
allotments, but refused to allow
their farms checked.
(b.) Those who are growing
tobacco commercially, who are
on the program, but have no to
bacco allotments.
(c.) Those who are not on the
program, but who produce to
bacco.
The registrars will have the
books open for any tobacco pro
ducer, who comes under the head
ing of those who have to regis
ter, at the precincts where they
are to vote, between the hours of
9:00 a. m. and 5:00 p. m. on
Saturday, September 23rd.
Baptists To Meet
At Beaver Creek
I. G. Greer, Judge Hayes
And Other Prominent
Speakers On Program/
The Brushy Mountain Baptist
association will convene at Beav
er Creek Baptist church Tuesday
and Wednesday.
Many widely known Baptist
leaders, including I. G. Greer,
Dr. Olln T. Binkley, Smith Haga-
man and Judge Johnson J. Hayes
are on the two-day program,
which was announced a few weeks
ago by T. ,B. Story, moderator.
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London.—The British govern
ment was represented today as
more than ever determined to
fight Germany to a finish despite
the new situation created by
Soviet Russia’s invastion of Po
land.
Just how important these new
complications would be was not
immediately clear.
The government continued to
study the situation but remained
silent pending receipt of more
detailed information.
Moscow.—^A clear indication
of a projected boundary line
through Poland and the extent of
operations of both Russian and
German troops was given by the
official newspaper Izveatia today
after the Red army had pushed
into Polish territory along a 500-
mlle front.
The line—marked “eiclt line
of German troops” — extended
from East Prussia to Rumania.
The map showing the project
ed boundary line was published
after the government had an-
. The WPA bookmobile with
000 volumes will return to
Wilkes county tomorrow to serve
rural communities and schools
for the next several weeks, it was
learned today from Mrs. Frank
Johnson, chairman of the board
of trustees of the Wilkes county
public library.
The bookmobile spent two
months in Wilkes this summer
and the work was very effective
and achieved splendid results.
For the return visit the pro
ject will be sponsored by C. B.
Eller, county superintendent of
schools, and teachers of the coun
ty. The bookmobile during its
stay in the county will Include
the schools on its itinerary. The
books will be kept in the county
public library in the new city
hall and sent out from there. It
is believed that the project will
be of much value to the schools
as well as the general public in
all the rural communities.
The bookmobile will be at the
public library on Thursday dur
ing the formal opening of the
library and may be Inspected by
all persons interested in tho
work.
Asheville Police
Chief Injured In
Wreck In Wilkes
Chief and Wife Sustained
Minor Injuries When
Two Cars Collide
Police Chief Charles W. Dermld
of Asheville and his wife were in
jured 12 miles west of here on
the Boone highway Sunday after
noon in an automobile collision.
Dermld suffered a fractured
right arm and Uceratlons over
the left eye. Mrs. Dermid receiv
ed cuts and bruises. Neither was
badly hurt. They received treat
ment here.
Officers investigating the acci
dent .said a car driven by James
With the largest crowd in lt«
history in attendance the Great
Northwestern Fair closed a sue*
cessful exposition on Satnrdap
night.
Total attendance figures for
Saturday and Saturday night were
estimated at 20,000.
The fair opened on Tuesdajr
with school children’s day and
continued through Saturday night
with the various features of the
exposition gaining in popularity.
Among the fair viaitors were
many people from counties ad
joining Wilkes and from other
parts of northwestern North Car
olina.
The exhibits at the fair during
the week were the subject of
much praise from judges, author
ities on various lines of agricnl-
tnre and home life and from the
spectators who went through the
hall in steady streams.
Many paused to pay high com
pliment to the apple show,
which was declared to be the
largest and of best quality ever
shown in the south, bigger expo
sitions notwithstanding. Exhibits
in all departments reflected pro
gress on the part of producers.
West World’s Wonder shows
filled the midway with a galaxy
of shows and rides and provided
much enjoyment to fair goers.
On the stage in front of the
graadstand were a number of out
standing acts for each perform
ance. The acts were enthusias
tically received at each perform
ance and included such outstand
ing performers as the Paramount
Revue girls. The Reiola Troupe,
The Great Peters, Silver the Won
der Horse and the Flying Alcidos
on the high trapeze act. The
closing feature of the grandstand
program each night was a phe-
nominal display of fireworks of
greater brilliancy and effect than
: ever before shown here.
I The new 1939 Chevrolet town
Layng of Jersey City, N. J., ®°l“]gedan given away by the fair on
llded with the Dermid car.
A hearing was held before
Magistrate R. C. Jennings yes
terday at Wilkesboro. Dermid was
exonerated of all blame. Magis
trate Jennings found Layng was
operating his car on the wrong
side of the road. He held Layng
for the November term of Wilkes
superior court under a $200 bond
on a charge of reckless driving. I
Mary Ann Dermid, small '
daughter of Chief and Mrs. Der-
raid and Mr. and Mrs. F. A.
Michael and daughter, Frances,
all of Asheville, escaped injury in
the crash. Layng was not hurt.
The Dermlds were en route to
Wilkesboro from Asheville to
visit Mrs. Michael’s mother, Mrs.
J. H. Carrigan.
Saturday night went to Mary
Jane Martin, small daughter of
Evan Martin, of Jonesville. The
pre.sentatiop was made on the
stage in front of the grandstand.
Baptists To Meet
At Roaring River
Manager Mnricroft Farm Praises
Ca&e Shown At Fair By Club Boys
Ted Beisch, manager of Cam
eron Morrison’s Morricroft farm,
judged the cattle .show at the
nounced occupation against feeble j Great Northwestern Farr 'here
resistance of 13 Polish towns, ex-j last week and highly complinmnt^
tending 40 miles or more into the animals shown.
eastern Poland and the downing
of 10 Polish airplanes.
Moscow.—Soviet Russian ar-
Dan Holler, Wilkes county
agent, said that the 26 mimals
shown were placed on exhibit by
,4-H club members and will be
mles march into Poland along other fairs, including
500-mile front; reported pene- Catawba fair at Hickory,
trated 60 miles, reach point with- jjeddenburg fair. North Carolina
in 48 miles of Ferman forces, South Carolina state fairs,
c lying dozen towns; meet
“weak” resistance; protection” of
Ukrainians and White Russians
in Poland given as object of in
vasion.
Gernauti, Rumania.—President
and foreign ministers of Poland
flee to Rumania; Polish republic
appears doomed.
Berlin.—Germans expect com
plete surrender of Poland in few
hours with Russian and German
forces meeting on line east of
Warsaw.
London. — Polish embassy
chargee Russian action is "act of
direct aggression;” British, gov
ernment silent on.eourso. -5?’
Paris.—Possibility seen that
The cattle show consisted main
ly of purebred jerseys with a few
herefopds, and gfuernseys.
Mr. Beisch highly praised Ihe
animals shown and the exhibitore
for the manner in which the ani
mals had been conditioned for
showing. He said that Wilkes is
ideally situated for production ai
cattle of both dairy and beef types,
and predicted that further pro
gress will be made in breeding
purebred cattle in this seetiom
In conjunction with judging the
cattle Mr. Beisch «pl*to^
various points which are consid
ered in rating the vtirioOB typos
and his' remarks were
ptq(* Mvj.
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TUB cattle
ed in a special tent on the fair'
grounds and were shown from
Tuesday through Friday.
The Elkin Baptist Association
will convene in annual session on
September 29 for a three-day pro
gram at Roaring River Baptist
Church. “Magnifying Christ and
Hlf Church’’ will be the general
theme of the sessions.
David W. Day of Elkin, moder
ator, will preside over the asso
ciation the introductory sermon
to be preached by Rev. Lloyd Par-
due. In addition to the annual
sermon, the first day’s program
will be devoted to a discussion of
the church and its local mission
work.
J. C. Pipes of Asheville, State
Baptist field worker will also ad
dress the association.
Speakers of the morning ses
sion of the second day will in
clude Smith Hagaman of the Bap
tist Hospital, Winston-Salem; Dr.
' I. 6. Grier, superintendent of
Mills Home, Thomasville; and J.
Former Alleghany Sheriff |C. Plpee.
Assumes Position For The afternoon program will
Federal Government- T I
I School, W. M. U., B. T. U„ and
Walter Erwin, a former sheriff
of Allegrany county, has been ap-! ‘“a too
pointed deputy marshal in the association, a sermon will bo do-
Middle North Carolina district o’clock, toe preach-
has assumed his duties with head-,®'' T®* »> b® announced, and in
quarters at Wilkesboro. afternoon a program of songs
„ J 117 A 8rito many choirs and quartets
He succeeds W. A. Jones, r^dered.
assocation includes- Ba^'
tlst churches of western 4 Surry
and eastern Wilkes count lee. ..
Walter Erwin
Deputy Marshal
U6 SUCC66Q8 vv , A* oiUlAVaf U*,* .a- ,
JVilkesboro. v^ho relmuished the,
office about six months ago. Smee
that time, other deputy marshals
had devoted some time to work in
this eircut of the district
England is smaller than North
Carolina; France is smaller than
Texas; Italy is smaller than New
Hezleo. It wonld tak^K three Den-
and his' remarks were meemakflnKtqNto mako wte. 'Wtoconsta., *»• w uwi
with much interea^ which expU^ Ameiw! xhU!3idP.y rwfa
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Of R.A.M. “
Announcement has heea
of. a. vary tanportant msattzd
chapter>•» R. A, M.. to
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-.yifspeelally urged te attaod.