Regardl^
Berlin, S^t. 24.—The Rome-
Berlin axis, authorized German
sources say, "will continue to
fight on all fronts, not only mili
tarily but also diplomatically and
politically,” regardless of what
the United States does.
From this it may be deduced
that Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and,
possibly, Yugoslavia, will be ob
jectives of diplomatic offensives,
while the political effort to fos
ter a cleavage among the Eng
lish people also will be intensi
fied.
It now appears certain that
Italian Premier Mussolini and
Joachim von Ribbentrop, Ger
many’s Foreign minister, includ
ed the United States’ present and
potential war position in their
recent Rome consultations, and
decided to fight without compro
mise.
New Political Order
After Von Ribbentrop’s return,
authorized sources asserted that
^ the attitude of Britain’s "actual
or potential seconds" was inter
esting only theoretically—actual-
f ly. it could not interfere with
the march of events.
"Sometime in the future the
Axis powers will be credited with
something like a stroke of gen
ius." authorized sources argued,
"for laying the foundations of tf
new political order even while
the struggle with England Is in
progress.
* “Their efforts are dictated by
the endeavor to admit all states
which have grasped the signifi
cance of present day happenings
and all peoples who are filled
with the necessity vitality and
will to action as equal members
In a European society.
‘New Europe’ In Sig(ht
“Considered from that view
point, the great war is a war of
order which allows the old to
die and the new to arise. This
war is already decided, for the
new Europe is already clearly
discernVble”
Although there has been no
announcement of military objec-
app^rs llWjlyjhst one
For moMnl.
. , do 7oidr biurli _
^ WOtliboM.
eocter of Kdrtin
GMoOfi*.
Lankfwd Youth
Victim'(K Stab
Wound Sept. 16
Hort Absher Held On
Charge of Murder, Sur
renders To Officers
Where Grkt Britain W^ lik
abvStopm^hf 'fife kb' attewfit
to block Britain’s outlet from
the Mediterranean through the
Suez canal by an attack on Egypt.
It Spain should enter the war,
Gibraltar might be r.tade unsafe
for the British fleet. Ramon Ser
rano Suner, Spanish Minister of
Government, was said to be one
of the earliest visitors scheduled
for Von Ribbentrop. who return
ed from Rome last night.
It the British fleet were driven
from the Mediterranean, Ger
many, Italy, and Spain would
have unhindered access to the
Near East’s oil and the .\xis part
ners could operate freely in
North Africa.
Health Work In
Schools Now On
Leonard Lankford, 20-year^
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Zack
Lankford, who live near this city
east of the Cricket community,
died at the Wilkes hcspltal Wed
nesday morning from injuries
received in an altercation at his
home Monday night, September
1C.
•Hort Absher, btother-ln-law
charged with having stabbed
I^ankford in the neck, surrender
ed to Wilkes officers at the
Jail Wednesday morning and is
being held on a charge of mur
der.
According to information ob
tained here, the young man was
trying to prevent disorderly con
duct on the part of Absher, who
was alleged to have been drink
ing, when Absher Inflicted the
fatal wound. Absher had prev
iously been arrested but had been
released under bond of $1,000
pending the outcome of the in
jury.
The young man Is survived by
his father and mother and the
following brothers and sisters:
Alonzo, Arlie, Brill. Don, Blanche
and Mary Lankford, of Cricket,
and Mrs. Maude Absher, of North
Wilkesboro route one.
Funeral service will be held
Friday at Oak Grove church,
eleven 'o’clock.
Guard To Entrain
For Fort Jackson
Six A. M. Friday
Company “A’^
Leave For YoSrII TY*m-'
ing In Regular Army
L. M. Nelson, commander of
the Wilkes post of the American
Legion, today launched a drivel
to secure funds for purchase of)
flags for the central schools In
Wilkes county.
He called attention to a state
ment by President Roosevelt that
October will be "flag month"
I when patriotism and respect for
the flag will be stressed through
out the country. He said
would be very appropriate to
I provide flags for the larger
Here at Hastings and St. Leonards, In Sussex, England, Is where William the Couqncior landed abnoil schools in Wilkes and for the
MO years ago in a successful conquest—a conquest that Chancellor Hitler of Germany ho^s North Wilkesboro school.
^ ... . tiMAiitAa* fliAvM 4h» AH ihft &criAl uC0U pQopl6 of I^ortli \S^illc6sboro
For Central Sihoo
Seek Funds For
SI’S*--
Purchase Flags;
Legion Sponsor
The Journal-Patriot And
. Banks To Receive Dona
tions To Flag Fund
S. S. ‘America
I
It
MO years aeo m a snccessiiu vunqucs*—• , - , - . « ,
mecM of British sea lovers again shudders under another attack from the east, as the bikf^ awial fleeU
at aU time are launched against the British Isles. Each day hordes of German airplanes darken the shy.
Young Soldier
Unsuccessful In
Try At Suicide
Dwight Watts Shoots Self In
Chest With 22-Calibre
Rifle Tuesday Night
Dwight Watts, a soldier home
on leave of absence, tried unsuc
cessfully to take his own life in
this city Tuesday night, police
officers said.
Mountain lions
Home Chair Co.
Open On Friday Begins Work On
Ronda Mill Plant
Twenty-Five Boys In Squad;
Light Weight and Inex
perience Handicaps
North Wilkesboro high school’s
1940 edition of the Mountain
Lions will play their first foot
ball game of the season Friday
against Mocksvllle on the latter’s
field.
Coach Jack Massey has a squad
of 26 players this year and the
my of them are.
County Health Department
Administering Shick Tests
and Vaccinations
Company A of 105th Engi
neers. North Carolina national
guard, called up by the president
for a year, of training, will en
train here Friday morning, six
o’clock, for Fort Jaokaon, S. C.,
where they will he in training
for one year.
The special train will pick up
other companies laong the route
and arrive in Fort Jackson near
Columbia. S. C., late tomorrow
afternoon.
Company which was easily
enlarged to the necessary
strength by volunteers here, is a
part of the 30th division. The
commissioned officers are Cap
tain Edmund P. Robinson and
Second Lieutenants Fred M. Wy
att. Malcolm L. Wyatt and Dom-
er J. Huffman.
It is expected that many rola-
tires and friends will be at the
station here Friday morning to
see I’oe company off.
After being busily engaged in
activities to protect health of the
public following the August 14
flood, the Wilkes county health
department has now turned its
attention to the school. Dr. A. J.
Eller, county health officer, said
today.
Nurses of the department have
already visited a number of the
schools, administering Schick
tests to children and diphtheria
vaccinations to reactors.
Di. EHIer called attention to
the law which compels immuni
zation against diphtheria and
vaccination against smallpox be
fore entering school. Reaction to
vaccinations among children is
not severe and no parent should
neglect this duty. Dr. Eller said.
Hodges President
North Wilkesboro
Young G. O. P.’s
A Young Republldans Club for
North Wilkesiboro township was
organized in a meeting held Tues
day night In fhe offices of Attor
ney Kyle Hayes.
Attendance at the meeting was
good and the crowd showed much
enthusiasm, party leaders said in
reporting the meeting.
Russel Hodges was elected
'president of the club and other
fifficers were: John K e r m i t
Blackburn, vice president: Miss
Ina Myers, secretary; Joe Godby,
member township committee: E.
K' Eller organization chairman.
Max Poster, newly elected pres
ident of Young Republicans’ or
ganization in the county, presid
ed at the meeting.
Vicky’s Flyers
Drop 100 Bombs
Upon Gibraltar
near the home of his father, fieeh workthV kafd. b»y flw let-
Hves
John Watts, who
Street.
His father told police that he
went out from the house about
seven o’clock and that a few min
utes later he heard a scream. He
was carried to the hospital by
ambulance and examination dis
closed a .22-calibre bullet wound
above the heart on his chest.
However, his condition is not
considered immediately critical.
Failure to find, a gun where
the wounded man was picked up
led at first to suspicions of foul
play but officers later talked
with the young man at the hos
pital and they said that he told
them that he had tried to kill
himself. The gun was later found
after a more intensive search
was made near the scene of the
scooting. It was an automatic 22-
calibre rifle.
Relatives could tell of no. rea
son for the act, other than the
fact that he was supposed to
have terminated his leave of ab
sence from the army* Monday and
had not returned according to
orders.
Episcopal Service
Gibraltar, Sept. 25.—(Wednes
day) — Warplanes of France,
Britain’s Nazi-suhjugate4 ally,
heavily bombed Gibraltar for
four hours and five minutes
Tuesday, inflicting death, injur
ies. property damage, and fires
on this vital British fortress at
the western head of the Mediter
ranean.
One hundred or more bombs
were hurled by 20 or more planes
in the longest and heaviest air
raid ever experienced by “The
Rock.” which often has been
raided by Italian bombers.
(Laborers returning from Gi
braltar to the Spanish town of
La Linea, just across a neutral
strip and moat from the fort
ress, said the French homhers
sank a British destroyer, hit a
submarine, and wrought other
heavy military damage and death.
(Thev said Gibraltar had two
more air raid alarms during the
evening, but no planes were
seen.)
Gibraltar military authorities
described the raiders merely as
"of French types.”
JLASONIC NOTICE
Regular Communication North
Wilkesboro Lodge No. 407, A. F.
and A. M. Friday, September
27t.h, at 7:30 p. m. Work in the
Third Degree All members urged
to attend^ visitors welcome.
There will be a celebration of
the Holy Communion at St.
Paul’s Episcopal church Sunday
morning, September 29 th, at
nine o’clock. A special offering
will be taken at this service for
Patterson and Valle Crucis
Schools.
ter men are on the roster but
some' of the recruits have been
showing up well in pre-season
practice.
The probable lineup for the
season’s opener in Mocksvllle
Friday will be as follows: Crook
and Gentry, ends; Z. Foster and
J. Foster, tackles; Minton and
McCoy, guards’: Estes, center;
Faw, Roblnett, Gettys or Moore,
and Hunt in the backfield. Likely
substitutes are Eddinger, Black
and Horton.
Crook, Z. Foster, McCoy, Faw
and Robinett, sensation at end
last year and who has been
switched to the backfleld, are the
lettermen.
The first home game will he
with Mineral Springs, a large
Forsyth county school, here on
October ‘11.
The complete schedule follows:
Mock.svllle there September 27;
Walkertown there October 4;
Mineral Springs here October 11;
October 18 open; Mooresville
there October 25; November 1
open: Elkin here November 8;
China Grove there Novemiber 15;
Wilkesboro here Novemiber 22.
The team is seeking games for
the open dates on October 18 and
November 1.
Modern Machinery Is Being
Purchased and Plant Will
Begin Operations Soon
The Horae Chair company, of
this city, which purchased the
buildings of Ronda cotton mills
last week, has begun surveys for
additions to the plant and is
making purchases of new ma-
The giant steamship America ft
deck in Norfolk. The newest aat
biggest vessel in the American nw^
chant marine; the largest paasengw
■Up ever bnilt in this coHatryg
length, 723 feet.
The buildings and power plant,
which had been vacant for sev
eral years but nevertheless in a
good state of repair, were pur-
cha.sed for an undisclosed sum
and company officials said that
furniture manufacturing wll; be
gin there in December.
Modern machinery, including
conveyor systems, will be in
stalled throughout the' large
plant, which, with necessary ad
ditions to adapt It to furniture
manufacture, will provide ample
floor space. A dry kiln will be
constructed and the buildings al
ready have a railroad siding.
The Home Chair company had
been in operation for over a
quarter of a century prior to
the flood on August 14, when
the plant wa.s destroyed by fire.
Salvaging operations are under ^
way at the site of the plant here, j
and all Wilkes county who wish
to have a part in this patriotic
movement may make donations
to the flag purchase fund. Com
mander Nelson said. He also
stated that both banks here and
The Journal-Patriot will act as
mediums to receive donations
and turn them into the flAg fund.
All donations will be publicly
acknowledged through local
newspapers.
Should the fund reach suffici
ent iproportions, smaller flags
will be placed in every classroom
in the city and county schools,
according to the plan, and the
Legion is asking cooperation of
all patriotic people In the drive.
Brooks Youth
Takes Own Life
Tuesday Evening
Jay Brooks Instant Victim
Of Self-Inflicted Shotgun
Wound Near Call
October Sesdon
Isaac Jacob (Jay) Brooks, age
18, ended his own life by firing
a shotgun load Into his chest at
the home of a brother-in-law,
Branson Call, in the Call com
munity late Tuesday afternoon.
(Joroner I. M. Myers said follow
ing Investigation of the death.
Begins Monday
Judge Allen Gwyn To Pre
side Over Two-Weeks
Term Trial Civil Cases
DEFROS'TER
L. E. Godwin, who owns a
peach orchard near Converse, S.
C., used an airplane propellor
and an automobile motor to cir
culate air in his orchard and
thus prevent frost.
Pinboards Mysteriously Disappear
In North Wilkesboro On Tuesday
Pinboards, marble tables and
other .so-ealled devices for
“amusement only,” left North
Wilkesboro more or less mys-
terily TueMlay.
So far as could be appertain
ed here, there W'as no “drive”
by officers or proclamation by
any authority to prompt the
rapid disappearance of the
slotted devices.
The proprietor of one eslab-
lisliment when askecl what had
gone with the popular pin
board in his place sad, “Like
the Arabs, they .stole away dur
ing the night.”
Distributors of the devices,
which are glenerally but not
officially said to be illegal
under the 1037 statutes out
lawing .slot machines, came
here Tuesday and hauled the
machines aWay by the truck
load. They were unable to haul
all the machines and' some
were stored in back places but
in no instances were they left-
for oijcratlon by the susceptible
public.
Public di.scusslon ooncciming
the reason for the disappear
ance of plnboorls centered a-
round the theme that court
will convene in Wilkesboro a-
gain next Monday Judge
Allen Owyn, of Reldevllle, will
preside.
At the Auguft term of court
j. 0. Billings Is
Taken By Death
Prominent Citizen Of Dock
ery Community Suddden-
ly Stricken Tuesday
October term of Wilkes super
ior court for trial of civil cases
will open in Wilkesboro on Mon
day, September 30.
Judge Allen Gwyn, of Reids-
ville, who is presiding over courts
of the 17th judicial district
throughout the last half of this
calendar year, will preside over
the two-weeks terih. A lengthy
calendar of civil actions has
been prepared by the bar asso
ciation for the term.
I Jurors for court were drawn
by the commissioners as folIow's:
First Week
J. H. Rector, North Wilkes-
iboro; R. W. Alexander, Ed
wards; Albert Huffman, Stanton;
A. N. Wyatt, Mulberry: E. F.
Yanboro, Edwards: G. F. Ogil-
vie, Wilkesboro: G. W. Horton.
Elk; Walter Davis, Stanton: J.B.
Hinson, Traphlll; Grover Taylor,
Mulberry; Silas B. Minton, Red
dles River; S. Fletcher,
the youth had .been badly afflict
ed with asthma for some time
and had threatened to kill him
self. They had bid Che gun la
the house but be went to the
home of Call while the family
was working in the field and
procured his gun. No one saw
the shooting but a young girl
near the bouse heard the report
of the gun and rushed to the
scene as the young man fell. The
load went all the way through
his chest and out his back be
tween the shoulders.
He was a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Brooks and leaves the fol
lowing brothers and sisters: Al
fred, Guy, Russel, Edgar and
Buel Brooks, Mrs. Wrenn Call,
Miss Etta Mae Brooks, Mrs. Char
lie Moser, Mrs. Rollie Bouchelle
and Mrs. Branson Call.
Funeral service was held at
F'ishing Creek Arbor church tbia-
afternoon, 2:30, with Rev. Per-
vis C. Parks in charge.
J. Oscar Billings, age 83, pro.m-
Inent citizen of the Dockery com
munity and a member of one of
Fourth Quarter
Conference Hdd
Wilkesboro; D. H. Ashley. Union:
C. D. Coffey. Sr., North Wilkes
boro: Paul M. Baity, Brushy
The last quarterly conference
North I of the North Wilkesboro Metho-
111 -
Wilkes’ best known families. ' Mountain; C. W. Bullis, Wilkes-
died at his home Tuesday after
noon. Although' he had been in
111 health for some time, death
came suddenly while he was sit
ting on the porch of his home.
Funeral service will he held
Thursday, 11 a. m., at Plsgah
church.
’The surviving sons and daugh-
lers are; J. A. Billings, Hlbbing,
Minn.; J. H. Billings, Lomax;
Bruce and Lonnie G. Billings and
Mrs. Joe H. Holbrook, of Dock-
jry: Mrs. Paul Bowers, Indepen
dence, Va.
No Increase In
Wilkes Marriages
boro; Wiley Sheete, Union; D.
W. Barlow, Lovelace; R. F.
Gregory, Somers; W. J. Horton,
Beaver Creek; V. V. Williams,
Wilkesboro; P- E. Brown, Wil
kesboro; J. M. Pardue, New Cas
tle: K. M. Allen, North Wilkes
boro: E. N. Blackburn, Rock
Creek.
Second Week
Gurney Brown, North Wilkes-
dist church was held Tuesday
night in the hut after the regular
stewards’ meeting adjourned.
Much business was transacted.
The financial report for the year
was up to standard and if all
pledges arc paid the budget wIU
be paid.
All the present stewards wera
re-elected. H. M. Hutchens waa
elected as a trustee, replacing A.
K. Pearson, decee'.:ed, W. H. Duh-
ling was elected superintendent
of Sunday schools, taking tba
place A. S. Cassel, who had
Gurney urown, i'luii.u r. pjace oi a. la. i^assei, wuo uao
boro: W. C. Burcham, Edwards: jjeid the position for seven Veara
. T A ' _i
W. M. Tucker, Edwards: J. A
Johnson, Rock Creek; J. L. Wy
att, Union; Clyde Luffman, Ed
wards; J. A. Kees, Jobs Cabin,
Mack D. Prevette. Somers; W. B.
Hendren, Brushy Mountain; J.
Red Bullis, Reddies River; De-
The conscription bill has be- witt Bumgarner, ■ Reddles River;
come law but there has been no
I increase in the number of mar-
Sberman J. Roope, Rock Creek;
G. N. 'Vannoy, North Wilkesboro;
At the AugUft term or conn 'uicieBac m —
In Wilkesboro Judge Owj-n de- riages in Wilkes county, accord- Frank Y. Craven, North Wilkes-
in tfiA of T TT, THarfs. Ejdw&TGSi G*
livered special and separate
charge fj) the grand jury. In
which he read the slot machine
law and ordered tiint bod>' to
make presemtments of known
cases of violation.
■Phe grand jury in Its report
to Judge Gwyn reconimended
that the sheriff and deputies
make arrests of persons having
niachines In their possed^on
and that the next grand Jury
make a report ol wfaat bad
been ,T
Ing to records In the office
Register of Deeds Old Wiles.
License issued this month, i^th
exception of three couples who
requested no publicity, were as
follows: Charlie Wlimouth, North
Wtlke^oro, and iMary Hayes,
Traphlll; Ramon King and Gtace
Blevins, both of Elkin; Worth
Holder Jackson,; Raleigh, and
Mildred GeYman, ’Boomer; Mon
roe- Smlthey, Jonesville, and Lel-
lar 'V’, Harris, Romla; Falnbanks
boro; J. E. Bads, Edwards; G.
W. Yates, Stanton; W. W. Call.
Antioch; James M. Yates, Wil
kesboro; P. M. Johnson, Lewis
Fork; R. G. Bumgarner, Red
dies River; J. L. Johnson, New
Ocustle; Eugene Lovette^ Reddles
River; Spencer Harris, Moravian
Palls; Taft Eller, Lewis Fork;
W. S. Whittington, Stanton.
and felt that some' one else
should have it and refused to
allow his name to go before the
board for reelection. The annual
conference will be held at High
Point, October 22nd. P. J. Bramo
was elected' delegate to this con
ference.
At the Stewards’ meeting held
before the conference the board
of stewards instructed the
church and grounds committee
to put new heating boilers in the
parsonage and in the church/
both boilers were’out of commte^
slon. S. V. Tomlinson had ctwge
of the meeting in-place of"tte
chairman, W. D. Halfacre, who
was not able to be present.
The average motor plant work
er drew $32.90 weekly in the
Har and Cora -Brooks, Hays.'first six months this year.
Of the S9 C C C camps now op-,
erating in North 0are)i:naii».’18,4m
under the directiaq. the. t]|. &
Forest Service and | w finder a*
National Park Service.'
^ i