kDes^tledas
^HE -TRAIL 09^
s»»^
London. — Slvattered remnants
of the British expeditionary force
—A>lood - stained, , muddy, and
walking like men asleep—began
arrlrlng In British ports early to
day.
Most of the first arrlyals were
wounded. They deecrlt)ed a con
stant, pitiless German ibomibing
and strafing bombardment of
ttoJIYeahh from which Tls-
^ htte^tlog to save
Ua^ ' dlTl^nsv
T%e appearanbe of the British
anrrtTort, of hsb IHandeca ibatUe
was a ghastly token of Whht
Britain may expect If A-dolf Hit
ler^ legrlons attack these shores.
B. B. r. casualties arrlTing to
day said the shattered British
forces were "sliding off a stretch
of coast SO miles long.” They re-
realed that some of the men had
to walk Into the water to reach
shallow draft ships.
Others left the beaches In row
boats and small fishing craft, and
were picked up at sea by Allied
ahlps.
German bombs rained down
'coBttnaal^. eren o a hospital
akips, th^ ^d. Quays and har-
h«C works of the French ports
Ufere under terrific German air
ttecks which went on all through
last night.
Allied warships and the royal
flying corps worked and fought
like bearers to aid the rescue of
the battered, betrayed armies of
Flanders whose fate was teetered
■on the channel’s brink. Under a
screen of Intense curtain fire
from long-range naval guns the
B. E, |R was backing out through
the Ddhkerque area, pressed by
a reckleUp German onslaught ne
cessitating fierce rear - guard
fighting.
Wounded were being evacuated
where possible.
British naval engineers main
tained quayside and harbor works
as best they could under terrific
enemy air attack.
Members of the returning van
guard were pitiful sights. None
had shaved for many days and
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Urgent Appeab Mad^
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Thousands May
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Is Not Rendered
Board Member.^
CHi^
With
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real
$800 To Be Cpnaidered As
Mmbnum For Wilkes
Chapter To Raise
aJi ■
thBtr boar^ were caked with mud_
Mi?oS^d. UnffdfliiB irgift ’^apters sh>Uld ffiennio «m
•r
«d and grimy. Many boou were
soleless. Some men had one shoe.
Those able to walk staggered as
it they were in a coma—evidence
of the nightmare of fighting and
marching and fighting again
without sleep or respite for days
on end.
The British wounded described
the Germans’ reckless expenditure
of manpower, hurling and sacri
ficing thousands in mass attacks.
"They came on like automatons
’ W moving to certain death,” a Brit
ish soldier said. "They would be
mowed down In hundreds and
wiped out without gaining any
thing. Then we would counter-at
tack.
“Piles of German dead blocked
the bridges. We had to use them
as sandbags behind which we es
tablished machine guns.”
A wounded German soldier
brought out with the British sur
vivors was Quoted as saying from
his hospiUl bed: “\VTiat can we
lo? We obey or die. We were
brought up for this since we were
children.”
Officers Elected
For Junior Council
Officers For Next 6 Months
Elected In Meeting Held
Tuesday Night
i>
c In a meeting of North Wilkes-
tooro council of the Junior Order
held on Tuesday night Charles
Leckie was elected councilor and
other officers were elected for the
next six-months’ period as fol
lows:
R. B. Church, vice councilor;
C. A. Canter, recording secretary:
P4«1 D. Hutchens, assistant re-
cofding secretary: C. G. Day, fi
nancial secretary; Bank of North
Wllkesboro, treasurer: R. G.
Halgwood, conductor; A. G. An
derson, warden; W. A. Noah. In
side sentinel: T. K. Waller, out
side sentinel: O. K. Pope, Junior
past councilor; A. A. Cashion, E.
A. Shook and B. F. Bentley, trus
tees; H. L. Mechem, chaplain; D.
Sr- Blledge, assistant chaplain: B.
r, Bentley and Paul D. Hutch-
e n s, representatives t o state
council; E. A. Shook and D. E.
Bllledge, alternate representa
tives.
The council continues very ac
tive and the membership Is stead
ily Increasing. There will be five
jandidatee for Initiation work at
the meeting to be held on Tues
day night, June 4, 7:30 o’clock,
fns all members, eepeclally the
degree team, are urged to attend.
Wilkes county chapter of the
American Red Cross, through Its
chairman, J. H. Whicker, has re
ceived another appeal from Nor
man H. Davis, national chairman,
for Red Cross war relief funds.
Wilkes county’s quota of the
original request for ten million
dollars was set at $800. In the
appeal from Chairman Davis for
funds It was urged that the orig
inal quota be considered as a min
imum in view of increased needs
for funds to aid war sufferers.
The telegram to Chairman
Whicker follows: “When Ameri
can Red Cross asked minimum
war relief fund ten million dol
lars no one could foresee that In
two short weeks greatest tragedy
in all history would be unfolded.
Impossible to describe pitiful
plight millions refugees 1 n
France. Sick, wounded, hungry
and homeless, they cry out to us
for help. Will need much more
than ten million dollars, there
fore quotas originally assigned
should he regarded only as min-
tor- many
the Ferguson
’ at. the ‘ Wilkes
Tuesday eve-’
wonhd which
^^n self-in
i',early Tuee-
mid
s^qaii^jl#iiig Friday
Outfro
Sdriunittee Duties
4ay::
Dr. J. G. Bentley, of Pores
Knob, a weU fcnojrn member
of the medical profession in
Wilkei^ has been elected to
jnemberphip on the H'ilkee
count.y board of welfare and
w4ll succeed Wm. A. Strond on
the board June 1. The other
members are P. J. Brame and
W. E. Smithey.
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and
coroner
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was tou)
coroner,
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was a $
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hospital
111 heal
cause of
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dren,
ley, all
broth^rh,
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ner, Vs-
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11' o’dl^
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and vent
: on the 'floor.
Sd Cmner I,
to the home
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I the ‘wott^ was
Vhtfllai^, which
the
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^tib» Aar to
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to the
PUns For Annirersary Cele
bration Jme 30-Jnly
4 Taking Form
Farmers
where poestble double their quo
tas. In fact, only limitation
should he iiie maximum generos
ity of American people. Wire re-
port.s Wednesdays and Satur
days.’’
Chapter officials feel assured
that Wilkes people will respond
to the call in their usual liberal
iClr^ted as the
chll
Hart-
aad two
of Wllkes-
ot Buck-
^ hsj^ today,
ip*^eek Ad-
Effner Eller, a troop Scout
master hiTo tor several yenn,
will be Scoutmaster at Camp
Lssater this summer (See
storj’ elsewhere on this page).
Student Pribram
Commencement
Gams Approval
Keith Oingles, promotional di
rector and ipageant master for
the John B. Rogers producing
company, of Dayton, Ghlo, arrived
here yesterday a few days ahead
of schedule to begin work on the
historical pageant to be staged
as a part of North Wllkesboro's
50th anniversary celebration June
30, July 1, i, 3 and 4.
Glngles, who recently put on
outstanding productions at Pine
Bluff, Arkansas,'and Atlanta, Ga.,
said that be was enthused with
the evidence of cooperation and
the apparent desire on the ipart
of the people of the city to stage
a celebration in observance of the
city’s 60th anniversary.
He Inspected the fairgrounds,
selected as the scene of the pa
geant to be staged each night of
the celebration, and was enthus
iastic In his praise of the place
as a “natural” for the purpose.
On Friday night. May 31,
7:30 o’clock, he will meet the
committees appointed for the
celebration and arrange to out-
Ipcrease 6426 ~ I
Over 36^ Id'^
County h IIW
Popnlatioa Two Towiu Am
Inipnodialio Viciaky Eo-
timated At 11,148 I
The population of Wilkes coua-
ty, according to the first pro-
limlnary figures released today
by A. S. Cassel, census snpandsor
for the county, is approximately
43,446.
This represents an Increase ot
about 20 per cent, or 6,826, over
the 36,620 as shown by tho
1930 census.
The 1940 preliminary figurso
are ibased on completed reporta
of all enumerators except one and
a reliable estimate on that town-
ship. The figures as released aro
subject to change and are unof>
ficlal.
The 1940 censns shows that
Wilkes county has 8,732 occopled
homes and 210 houses were thrtad
under the census classification oC
vacant homes, although a largp
number of the vacant ones arp
not considered snitable for habi
tation.
The enumerators found 5,131
farms In the county. The census
lists three acres or more as a
farm. .
The papulation of North WIV-
kesboro is listed for 1940 at 4,501
and Wilkesborff has 1,320. Tba
total for North Wllkesboro town
ship, which Inclodes the clty»
was 7,066 and Wllkeeboro town
ship total is 2,565. On the baslg
of the township figures, tho popn--
latlon of North Wllkesboro and
surrounding area for .a dUb
way,
W. Blair Gwyn, chapter treas
urer, is receiving donations for
the fund at the Bank of North
Wllkesboro in this city. Dona
tions may be delivered to him
in person or sent through the
mails.
Eller Scoutmaster
For Camp Lasater
Local Man Promoted To
More Important Post Of
Leadership This Year
Effner Eller, local Boy Scout
leader, who for the past two
years has been serving as a
leader at Camp Lasater, near
Winston-Salem, has received no
tice of his appointment to a more
important place of leadership
this summer.
During the regular council
training camp, Mr. Eller will
serve as camp scoutmaster, and
will be In charge of First Aid
work, and will be resident camp
director during the period for
troops and individual camps.
Camp Lasater Is located near
Winston-Salem, and serves all
Scouts i n the Winston-Salem
Council, which Includes several
counties in Northwestern North
Carolina. It has been in opera
tion 15 years, and offers a
splendid program for boys.
Mr. Eller will assume his du
ties on June first.
AciJaimed Success
Farmers and business men of
Wilkes county gathered around
the banquet tables at the Ameri
can Legion and Auxiliary club
house Wednesday night in a fel
lowship meeting designed to bring
about clo.ser cooperation between
agricultural and business inter
ests.
Farmers and ousiness men
guests whom they had invited
filled the banquet hall and the
gathering was described by E. Y.
Floyd, state executive officer of
the Triple A. and Flake Shaw, of
Greensboro, member of the state
committee, as the most successful
held in the state so far.
J. M. German, chairman of the
Wilkes county committee, was
toastmaster and the principal
speaker for the evening was E.
Y. Floyd.
The program opened with sing
ing of “America,” followed by'
invocation tiy Rev. R. R Crater.
J. M. German told of the purpose
of the meeting and guests were
introduced.
Mr. Floyd, who was presented
by Lawrence Miller, clerk of the
Triple A in Wilkes, sPOke of the
progress of the Triple A program,
especially la encouragement of
(Continued on page 8)
oiF
tion Tuesday Night
Follovflng Is the official vote
6r.st In Wilkes county Saturday In
tall
primary raeffl not'tabulated else
where on this page:
For Governor
Robert H. McNeill (R) 3,115
Pritchard (R)
Hoffman (R)
163
93
Lientonant Governor
Ersklne Smith —
Dan Tompkins
R. L. Harris —
L. A. Martin
Witten (R)
Leavitt (R)
2,478
362
836
445
1,416
1,210
Secretary of State
Thad Eure — ^
Walter Murphy
3,142
1,184
3,422
696
State Auditor
Geo. Ross Pou
Chas. W. Miller
Oommissloner Agriculture
W. Kerr Scott — 3,227
C. Wayland Spruill 802
Insurance Commissioner
Dan C. Boney 2,821
William B. Olivet’ 1,123
Episcopal Service
Vesper service will he held at
St. Paul’s Episcopal church Sun
day afternoon, June 2nd, at four
o’clock, mends and visitors are
cordially Invited to attend.
With the seniors carrying out
their own program, the finals for
the school year were held at the
North Wllkesboro high school
’Tuesday night and diplomas were
presented to a large class of
graduates.
A large audience by frequent
applause showed its approval of
the new type of commencement
program which did not Include a
commencement speaker other
than members of the class.
The program was opened by
three numbers by the high school
band, after which the seniors
ocenpied the stage had had full
charge of the proceedings. Walter
Call, a senior and president of the
school student body, opened the
program and Invocation was
spoken by Cora Pruitt, a senior.
Paul Halgwood extended greet
ings on behalf of the class and
Introduced each senior, after
which M. W. Greene, Jr„ presi
dent of the class, took charge.
Pour numbers by the high
school glee club were delightful
ly rendered and four student*
(Continued cm page eight)
Mother: Why, Joany, dear; po
lite people don’t yawn in pnihllc.
Little Joany: But mother, po
lite people don’t notice It.
In discussing the pageant writ
ten for the celebration be talked
briefly today ot some of the
scenes to be depicted, among
them being: a scene of Cherokee
Indians, first white settlers here,
the wedding between Col. Ben
Cleveland and Marjr Graves, a
church scene at old Mulberry
Fields, trading post at Cross
Creek, early schools, War Be
tween the States, farming In
Wilkes county and many other
scenes of historical and progress
ive Interest.
Hundreds will be Included In
the cast of the pageant, he said.
It was also learned from offici
als of North Wllkesboro’s Com
merce Bureaus, sponsor of the
celebration, that (Jovernor Cl( fe
R. Hoey has accepted an Invita
tion to deliver an address here
one day during the celebration
but at the present time is unable
to name the exact date.
Mount Olive To
Have Home Coming
Pocwlatlon of nearby towhrtfjM ^
showed-a big Increase dniiag tbb-
past ten years. The Reddlae Mvar
enumerators found 3,256 Individ
uals. Mulberry 2,579 and Rock
Creek 2,497.
The enumerators in the conatr
spent 6,291 hours gathering
census Information.
Three Sentenced ;
In Federal Court
James Holbrook And Twtf
Wilkes Men Get Prison
Terms Wednesday i
A home coming service and
singing will be held at Mount
Olive Baptist church In northern
Alexander county on June 9.
There will be a sermon at 11 a.
m„ dinner on the grounds at
noon and class singing in the aft
ernoon. All are Invited to attend.
OFFICIAL VOTE FOR GOVERNOR. CONGRESS, COUNH OITICES
Mystery Hinted
In Capitulation
London.—Admiral of the Fleet
Sir Roger Keyes, who as a speci
al British liaison officer was
with King Leopold until late Mon
day night, issued a statement to
day hinting that there were cer
tain Important facts not yet gen
erally known attending the Bel
gian monarch’s sndden capitula
tion to the Germans.
■While the majority of the Brit
ish press was bitterly denouncing
Leopold,, Sir Roger Issued a state
ment requesting that judgment be
“suspended on a very gallant sol
dier until all the facts are
know? ”
ANTIOCH
BRUSHY MOUNTAIN
EDWARDS No. .1
EDWARDS No. 2
EI)WABDS No. 3
ELK No. 1
ELK No. 2
JOBS CABIN No. 1 —
JOBS CABIN No. 2 __
LEWIS PORK
LOVELACE
MORAVIAN FA.I.US —
MULBERRY No. 1
MULBERRY No. 2
, fr-
NEW CASTLE
NORTH WILKESBORO
REDDIE5S RIVER
R(X!K CREEK
SOMERS
STANTON
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TRAPHIIiL No. 2
UNION
WALNUT GROVE No. 1
WALNUT GROVE No, 2
WILKESBORO No. 1
WILKESBORO No. 2
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William Wade Merriraan, of
Forsyth county, James Holbrook,
of Traphlll, and Marvin Phlllipa,
of Forsjrth county, were convict
ed in federal court at Wllkesboro
Tuesday and yesterday were sen
tenced to terms In prison for vio
lation of liquor tax laws.
Merrlman, who was charged
with buying a load of liquor from
Holbrook and transporting It to
Wlnston-Salem, received a year
and a day In Chillicothe whfl»
Holbrook received 18 months la
Atlanta prison. Marvin Phillips,
whose charge of influencing and.
intimidating a witness was con
solidated with the cases of Mer-
riman and Holbrook for trial,
was sentenced to 12 months in
Petersburg, Va.
i Today the tril of a number oC
defendants on s liquor conspiracy
charge was in progress and many
cases on the criminal calendar
yet remain to be tried.
Pastors, Wake
AlunmiToMeet
Meeting Wake Forest Alum
ni and Baptist Pastors
Will Be Held Tuesday ’•
A joint meeting of the Wilkes
County Baptist Pastors’ Confer
ence and Alumni of Wake Forest
College will be held at Princess
Cafe in this city on T^iesday,
June 4, 12:30 p. m., It was an
nounced here today.
’The pastors will meet in the
morning, ten o’clock, at Relns-
Sturdlvant chapel and following
that meeting ■will join the Wake
ainmni for the joint meeting, at
which time M. A. Huggins, gener
al secretary of the Baptist state
convention, ■will be the speaker.
If the rest cure Is properly car
ried out, practically alj cases of'