IKtastor Occurred In Allan'
tic Ocean Tuesday,
London Reports
Northern Port In England.—
The torpedoing of a British refu
gee liner en route to Canada with
a loss of 294 lives, including 83
of the* 94 children aboard, was
revealed here last night when
horror-stunned survivors were
leaded from a warship.
yvBabies 'were tossed into the sea
tiftd other .children died linger
ing deaths of exposure before the
eyes of their mothers and help
less men in sta-n.-tossed life
boats, several of which were
swamped.
The torpedoing, presumably by
a German G-bbat, occurred about
10 p. m. last Tuesday 600 miles
off the British coast.
In all 112 survivors were
landed here to tell of one of the
most appalling sea disasters of
the war. They included 13 chil-
iren, 18 women and 81 men.
wakes Unit Of
Adult Ediicatior
State Director t*raises Work
Under Direction Of Mrs.
Ethel V. Moore Here
Iritish Demand
Ruthless Blows
On Nazi Cities
London.—Demands for “ruth
less” reprisal bombings of Ger
man cities and towns arose last
night as the air ministry describ
ed a shattering dusk-to-dawn as
sault on Adolf Hitler’s “invasion
bases” directly opposite the Brit
ish Isles.
Relays of British bombers,
dumping tons of bombs and in
cendiaries on the Nazi-held ports
of Ostend, Dunkerque, Boulogne
and Calais, were said to have
watched enormous flames and
thunderous explosions wreck
Gemutny’s concentrations of ships
au4 supplies.
The bomb-weary people of
London, digging in for the third
Hitter’s “total war" a-
city.
I'p greatest
S. G. Hawfield, state director
of adult education and president
of the North Carolina Education
Association, spent a few hours
here during the past week mak
ing a survey of adult education
work in the district composed of
Wilkes and Alexander counties.
Discussing activities of the de
partment in this section, the
state director said that he is
highly pleased with the work car
ried cn here under direction of
Mrs. Ethel V. Moore, district sup
ervisor.
The department Is striving to
suit l'.s program to the needs of
each community, he said—such
needs as are not being met by
other government agencies.
Adult education program has
been enriched by addition of sev
eral activities to include first
aid. illiteracy, parent education,
Americanization, safe driving,
family relationships and visiting
teachers.
An aim of adult education, Mr.
Hawfield said, is to help people
to be happier and more useful
citizens. One important idea of
the work at present is to take
care of problems arising In the
national defense program, in
terms of seeking to promote an
understanding of how the gov
ernment works and to instill in
the people a deeper sense of pa
triotism and loyalty. This phase
of the work 49 included in the
Americanization activity in the
program of work.
Mr. Hawfield also reviewed the
first aid work, saying that
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Meeti^ V Baptists
67th Anna^ AMOciation It
Held Last Week At New
Hope Baptist Church
rhf se newcomers from England are saying their prayers, and among
a flock»t things that they are thanktnl for, they are thanking the Almighty
for getting them safely to the United States. All are from Garden City,
England, and they are stopping temporarily at the Gould fenndation.
Home Chair Company Buys
Ronda Cotton Mills Building
t)' al
ennaa
I es
f^ght fierce dog-fights over the
outskirts.
Along the coast of the Dover
Straits near “Hell’s Corner, the
Nazi ‘IBlg Bertha” guns planted
on the French coast twice ham
mered shells across the channel,
some of them smashing into the
Dover area at 11 a. m-
Hi
ome Economics
Teachers Meet
(foine Economics Teachers
Of Three Counties Or
ganized In Meeting
Home economics teachers in
Wilkes. Ashe and Watauga coun
ties met at ten o’clock Saturday
at North Wilkesboro high school
and formed an organization.
This marks the first step In
organization of homft economics
teachers in the extreme north
western part of the state, there
•being no organization prior to
this time.
Miss Bernice Allen, assistant
state supervisor of home econom
ics and field worker for W. C. U.
N. C« Greensboro, was present
at the meeting to assist in or
ganization and to offer sugges
tions.
Miss Evelyne Sharpe. Vocation
al home economics teacher in
North Wilkesboro schools, was
elected chairman and Miss Ethel
Cole, of Mount Pleasant, was
named as secretary.
Meetings will be held on the
second Saturday morning of each
Month with the next meeting to
Me held at North Wilkesboro high
school on October 12. ten a. m.
'The program will consist of
helps, ideas, aids. etc., in teach
ing home economics. The October
12 meeting will stress teaching
aids for classwork in teaching
“personal appearance” to high
school girls.
Home Coming At
Arbor Grove On
Sunday, October 6
The annual home coming at
Arbor Grove Methodist church
irlU be held on Sunday, October
complete program for the
will be announced next week.
Oountles having the greatest
farm population based on the
1940 farm census of the State
Department of Agriculture are
Eloherson. 44,080; Johnston, 41,
526; Pitt, 35,780;
ind Sampson, 81,730
tervals, with the result that many
have learned the fundamentals
of first aid.
The visiting teacher work is
one phase which is being stressed
in Wilkes and is carried on in
close cooperation with the public
school system. Schools desiring
this service are furnished a vislt-
ng teacher by the adult educa
tion division and the duties of
the visiting teachers are to pro
mote proper relationship between
homes and schools.
While here making the survey
of adult education work Mr.
Hawfield also attended a confer-
'-nce of the Northwestern district
of the North Carolina education
association and a banquet of
educational leaders held on
Thursday night at Hotel Wilkes.
P.-T. A Board To
Meet On Thursday
Executive board of the North
Wilkesboro Parent-Teacher asso
ciation will n'.eet at Hotel Wilkes
On Thursday, September 26, 2:30
p. m. Chairmen of all coinmittees
are urged to be present with
plans of work for the year, Mr.
J. B. McCoy, president, said in
making announcement of the
meeting.
Five Automobile
$262,495.61 Paid
In UCC Checks
Thru Office Here
Approximately $12,000 Paid
During August In 2,631
Separate Checks
County This Year
Only Eleven Counties In The
State Have Clear Record
For First Eight Months
Raleigh.—.Unemployment ben
efits to normally employed work
ers in North Carolina amounted
to J54S.220.56 in August, in
cluded in 114,413 checks deliv
ered through the 46 Employ
ment offices and 10 colored
branches in the State, Itnemploy-
ment Compensation Commission
Chairman Charles G. Powell an
nounces. This includes $18,-
345.50 in 2,127 cheeks which
went to out-of-State workers who
had previously established wage
credits in North Carolina.
Total benefits in the 32 months
of distributton through August
reached $15,956,955.44, embrac
ed in 2,515.352 checks issued, of
which $305,922.32, included ir
2 8.305 checks, went to residents
of other slates with credits in
North Carolina.
The North Wilkesboro Employ
ment office distributed 2.631
''hecks representing $11,925.38
in August to unemployed eligible
workers in the area served by the
office. In the 32 months of bene
fit payments through August,
this office has distributed 42,307
checks for an aggregate of $262,-
495.61 to eligible unemployed
workers.
Bible Class To Meet
Five of the 4 98 street and
highway fatalities in North Car
olina the first eight months of
1940 occurred in Wilkes county,
the Highway Safety Division re
ported this w'eek.
Only 11 of the 100 counties in
the state had a clear record in
traffic deaths at the close of the
eighth month, these being Cam-
dien, Caswell, Chowan, Clay,
Gates, Greene, Hyde. Mitchell,
Perquimans, Tyrrell and \ancey.
Mecklenburg topped the state
with an eight-months traffic toll
of 25, followed clo.sely by Guil
ford and Robeson with 22 each,
Forsyth with 21 and Buncombe
with 19. Sixteen counties report
ed only one fatality each for the
eight-months period.
The State’s eight-months traf
fic toll of 498 deaths, subject to
the possible addition of t few
delayed deaths, was a decrease
of seven per cent from the 539
traffic deaths In the state the
first eight months of 1939.
“Happily. North Carolina still
enjoys a decrease In its traffic
toll for this year, in comparson
with that of last year, but our
percentage of decrease has slipp
ed in two months from ten per
c^t to seven per cent.” stated
Ronald Ilocutt, director of the
Safety .Division. "The fact that
we are showing a decrease in the
face of a nation-wide increase is
gratifying, of course, but eternal
vigilance and care on the part
of every North Carolina motorist,
pedestrian and bicycle rider must
be exercised throughout the re
mainder of the year if we are not
to lose what we have gained.”
Provisional figures show a to
tal of 71 traffic deaths In the
state last month against 82 for
August, 1939. This was better
than a 13 per cent decrease.
Not a single bicycle or railroad
crossing fatality was reported for
the month of August, and the 18
pedestrian fatalities, representing
approximately 25 per cent of the
month’s traffic toll, were well
obiow the national average.
Only -four cities above 10,000
population reported fatalities in
August, Charlotte reported four,.
Shelby and Winston-Salem re
ported 2 each, and Fayetteville,
had one.
Ha Holman Bible class of Wil-
estooro Baptist church will meet
Nash, 34 830 ’Thursday afternoon, 2:30, at the
home of Mrs. T. M. Foster.
Plans To Resume
Operations Soon;
Buying Machinery
To Erect Dry Kiln And In
stall Modem Machin
ery Throughout Fl.^nt
;Rpn^.yrttw
lame o^fS
necessary ad
structed and
J. D. Moore
company, stiM
The Home Chair company, of
North Wilkesboro, which lost its
plant, equipment;^a^ materials
by fire in the” TaiSl4l|^ flood here
Augnst 14, has the
as
can 1ft eon-
^inery installed,
reside; - of the
today.
The large factory building pur
chased by the company has am
ple floor apace and Is in excel*-
lent state of repair, although the
mills there have not operated for
several years. The Home Chair
company will Immediately con
struct a dry kiln and other neces
sary buildings as additions to the
main plant. Included in the pur
chase was a power plant of large
capacity to serve the industry.
Mr. Moore said that all new
and modern machinery, including
conveyor systems, is being pur
chased and will be installed Im
mediately. He estimated that the
plant will be in full production
early in December and that work
in preparation for opening of the
plant will be rushed as rapidly as
possible.
Prior to the flood disaster.
Home Chair company normally
out the. country. It has been in
operation here for more than a
quarter of a century.
of
Persons Leavi^
May Register For LaJJord Youth
Election This Fall
Excellent reports on all phases
of chnrch work and inspiring dis
cussions featured the 67th'an
nual session of Brushy Mountain
Baptist association held Septem
ber 17 and 18 at 'New Hope
church.
In the final session of the as
sociation T. E. Story was re
elected moderator for the seventh
year and J. P. Jordan was re
elected clerk. Purlear church was
received into the association,
making a total of 32 churches.
The theme of the association
was ‘"The Steadfast Church in a
Changing World” and with but
lew exceptions the program was
carried out as scheduled at every
session. At the opening session
Rev. A. W. Eller, pastor of New
Hope church, welcomed the dele
gates, devotional was by Rev.
A. B. Hayes and committees as
follows were named by the mod
erator: time, place and preacher
—W. E. Jones, Lafe Deal and O.
B. Barnett; nominating, R. L.
Church, R. L. Prolflt and J. M.
Lankford; resolutions. Mrs.
George Johnson, W. H. Hurley
and Zollie Parsons: reception
churches, Glenn Huffman, R. L.
Church and A. B. Hayes. The
standing order of business com
mittee is composed of T. E. Story,
J. F. Jordan, pastor of the First
Baptist church of North Wilkes-
'boro, Rev. A. W. Eller and Mrs.
C. B. Mayberry.
Rev. Ernest Bumgarner, of
Taylorsville, delivered the annual
sermon on the subject of “I Am
The Way.” Other outstanding ad
dresses during the sessions in
cluded discussions by Federal
*uA». Joha«>n J. Hayes, of WU-
J. “4*;' Hayes,
pastof of North Wllkseboro Bap
tist church in Winston-Salem.
Reports and discussions during
the association were carried out
as follows: literature, R. C. Mea
dows and David R. uworgan,
orphanage, J. C. McNeill and
John March McMJllon: missions,
Mrs. R, T. McNiel, Mrs. W. K.
Sturdivant, Rev. F. C. Watts and
Rev. C. C. Holland; cooperative
program. Rev. M. O. Alexander,
temperance s*b1 public morals.
Rev. Isaac Watts. Rev. M. A.
Adams and Judge Hayes; teach
ing and training, Hayden Hayes,
Mrs. W. F. Jones, Mrs. G. T.
Mitchell and Mrs. George John
son; schools and colleges, D. E.
Elledge and Rev. J. M. Hayes;
hospital. Rev. A. E. Watts; pro
viding for aged ministers, R. H.
Proffit; digest of church letters
by clerk, J. F. Jordan.
The time, place and preacher
committee reported that the
1941 association will be held
with Pleasant Home church on
Tuesday and Wednesday before
Southern Belle
Margaret Landry, 18, will be the
first living person to become the
emblem of a railroad train, when
her likeness is placed in the observa
tion car lamp of the Sonthern Belle,
a new streamlined aiamlnnm train
of Loaisiana A Arkansas-Kansai
City Soathem lines.
At Banquet Man^
SchodLeadm
Salary Increase, Tenure,
tirement Fund, Broader
Prognram Asked
Company ‘A’ Now
Ready To Be|^
Year Of Trainii^
To Leave Latter Part Of
This Week To Spend
Year At Fort Jackson _
employed from 27 5 to 300 men , .........j . ~ v.
and was doing a large volume of the fourth Sunday in September.
ana was aoing a imsc
business with customers through- Rev. F. C. Watts was designate
to
preach the sermon with Rev.
A. E. Watts as alternate.
The Brushy Mountain associ
ation includes the Baj>tist church-
In the WilkesboroB and a
greater part of the western half
Wilkes county.
Company A of 106th Engineers
is encamped on the fairgrounds
here awaiting orders to entrain
the latter part of this week for
Camp Jackson, where it will be
a part of the 30th division in a
year’s training.
/Captain Edmund P. Robinson,
who was recently promoted to
Captain and head of the com
pany, succeeding Ralph R. Reins,
who was promoted to major rank,
said that no difficulty was ex
perienced in recruiting the com
pany to war time strength and
that he still has a considerable
list of applicants who can be en
listed if regimental headquarters
gives the word.
There have been several dis
charges of married men with de
pendents Mit there was an ample
number of recruits to fill the
ranks.
As a whole, the company is a
happy, carefree group of young
men eager to get to Camp Jack-
son to begin intensive training as
a part of the nation’s defense
program.
The company has a unique dis
tinction which almost makes it
in the class of "one big happy
family”—there are 21 brothers in
the ranks—nine pairs and three
from one fa.mily. Thvo second
lieutenants are brothers, Fred M.
and Malcolm L. Wyatt, and the
three brothers are Lawrence,
Henry and John Craven.
Notice Of Registration May
Be FiHed With Election
Board Chairman
A daughter was born last
night at Davis Hospital to Mr.
and Mrs. Gwyn Nichols, of Millers
Creek.
W. H. McElwee, chairman of
the Wilkes county /hoard of elec
tions, said today thad he had
bteen advised .by W. A. Lucas,
chairman of the state board of
elections, that persons who must
be out of their respective pre
cincts on regular registration
days may register prior to that
time with the chairman of the
county board of elections.
This will apply to national
guard members, draftees, school
teachers, students and others who
must leave before registration
books open prior to the fall elec
tion.
They may file notice of regis
tration with Attorndy McElwee,
chairman of the county board of
elections, before leaving or on
week-ends, an.d he will forward
their names to their respective
precinct registrars.
Provislofts is made tor ab
sentee voting under provisions'of
the revised absentee ballot law
passed by the last legialatitre.
Is Badly Hurt
Leonard Lankford Receives
Stab In Neck; Hort Ab-
sher Is Under Bond
Dr. Clyde A. Erwin, state soi^
erlntendent of public instmetioB,
Thursday night for the first time
outlined the educational legtala*
live recommendations which he
will make to tbe next North Car
olina legislature.
He outlined his proposal at a
banquet of 100 educational lead
ers of the northwestern district
of the North Carolina EMucatioa
Association following a leader
ship conference In the afternoos.
The four major points in hia
legislative program, he said, are:
retirement fund for teachers;
tenure with adequate protectioa
for teachers who have rendered
satisfactory service; salary in
crease; enriched program la
achools with emphasis on voca--
tlonal education.
In the afternoon a leadership
conference was held at the North
Wilkesboro school with city and
county superintendents, princi
pals red representatives of clasn-
room teachers present from Alle
ghany, Ashe, Davie, Surry, Mount
Airy, Watauga, Yadkin, Wilke*
and North Wilkesboro units rep
resented in tbe total attendance
of 125.
Those /participating in the con
ference included Jule B. Warren,
secretary of N. C. E. A., Miss
Ruth Vick Everett, field repre
sentative; Dr. Roy W. Morrison,
Of the University of North Caro
lina.; _ . „
The banquet was held at 6:Sd
Thursday evening at Hotel
Wilkes. Paul S. Cragan opened
the meeting and Miss Relbecco
Moseley, head of the North Wil
kesboro unit of the N. C. E. A.,
was toastmaster.
Retirement Fond
In outlining his legis>lative
recommendations. Dr. Erwin said
relative to retirement fund for
teachers that "a government
which requires practically every
business to make provision* tor
retirement payments can no long
er afford to ignore its own re
sponsibility to its own employea.”
He said be will recommend a plan
whereby the cost is shared jointly
by the teachers and by the
state, whereby teachers would be
retired at the age of 65 or young
er in event of disability.
Itaps Political Dlscliarges
Speaking of tenure he saidr
“From experience and observa
tion I have seen urgent nocesslty
for safeguarding teachers from
discharge for political and petty
rea.sons. Teachers who are doing
a good job should bte protected in
their position-s. A sense of secur
ity which a teacher would re
ceive from tenure protection
would add greatly to her effici
ency.’’
For Higher Salaries
In stating his recommenda
tions for more adequate compen
sation for teachers he stated
Condition of Leonard Lank
ford, 21-year-old resident of near
this city who was stabbed in the
neck last Monday night at the
home of his father, Zack Lank
ford, was described at the Wilkes
hospital today as critical.
Hort Abeher, a brother-in-law
of the young man, has been ar
rested and is being held under
bond of $1,000 pending the out
come of Lankford’s injury.
According to account of the af
fair rendered to investigating of
ficers, Absher was alleged to
have been drinking and Lankford
tried to quiet him or persuade
him to leave the house when he
stabbed Lankford with a knife.
Farm income in North Carolina
for the first six months of 1940
is 20 per cent greater than for
the same period last year, reports
Russell P. Handy, Junior statis-
Hclan of the State Department
of Agrlcultura.
ofticers-Milap-
tain Edmund P. Robinson, Sec
ond Lieutenant Fred M. Wyatt,
(Continued on p^ge five)
Mrs. A. B. Caldwell
Claimed By Death
Mrs. Anna Elizabeth Horton
Caldwell, age 68, died at 7:45
Sunday morning at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. A. A. Stur
divant. She had been in ill health
for several years and seriously
ill since Friday.
Funeral service will be held
at the Sturdivant home somr
time Thiesday and bsirlal will be
in Mountain Park cemetery.
Surviving are her husband, A
B. Caldwell, and three daughters.
Mrg. A. A. Sturdivant and Mrs
Aifem Adleman, of Wilkesboro.
and Mrs. Charles Swan, of Wash
ington, D. C. There Is one sur
viving sister, Mrs. Paul Morris,
ol Alliance, Ohio.
Mr. arid Mrs. Caldwell are
former residents of Portage co
■ji Ohio, and came here six yl jrs
tgo to make their home with / ';r
%ad Mm. Sturdivant.
TTie complete roster of Com-j that teacher salaries have no*
pany A as now constituted, and yet reached pre-depression lewei*
which contains all recent promo-| while employers in practicaHy
tions, follows:
Commissioned
every other line generally have
restored salaries. “The inevltabl*
increase in salaries and cost of
living becailse of stimulation
through expenditures for defenao
purposes makes salary Increase*
for teachers very urgent if w*
are to preserve adequate person
nel for the schools.” he said.
Enriched Program Schools
The last but one of the great
est points in his legislatlva
recommendations, he said, is an
enriched program in the school*
with special emphasis on vocn-
tional education as a defens*
measure. He also stated that em:-
phasis should he placed on d»>
mocracy in schools as a basic con
tribution to the preservation of
democracy.
In addition to the state super
intendent, other educational an-
thoritles present at the baniiB**
included S. G. HaWtIrfd, pn*t-
dent of the North Carolina Kd»-
catlon Association and state dt>
rector of adnit edueation; Mm
Mary Holmes Rtckf. ft Ik*
way Mfety dirlskm: 1^. Morrt-
son, of Chapel Hill, and MM*
Everett, of the K. G. BlrA. '
Dr. ' Hpeniw
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