iSHrouiiiAlipAiiaot ^he tBAjj. ot progr^ in Of, wi
sV, *:j,
iS” toR -ovmr7
War News
on.—Preoldent Roose-
> >! •iV- -
TftU Iniif aiCBt tlatly rejected pro-
po3^ jbnt tike United States In-
Utntf^n'^e^ raoTement, proiei^
ed* Averieaa ^dlers would
not iK^ent to Eni^e and confl-
denUirV«Acted tint the axis
poweci lo*^ the war.
He aplMded. to the nation to
turn Hselt lntja.,the ‘’gfreat arsen
al of demoerady’’ and pledged
that his goxemment would ex
pand Its shortfot-war aid to Great
BriUin. '
The ‘"new oirder" which the
Rome-Berlip-Tohyo axis prof^ses
as 16» dhjeetlTe'Waa denouhc* by
Mr. Roosevelt as an "unholy rtii-
ance ol power and pelf to dotsl-
nate and enslaxe the human
race.” He warned frankly that
this nation's ability li keep out
of the war will be affected by
the outcome of the battle of
Britain.
To Avoid War
"Our national policy is not di
rected toward war,'’ he said. "It’s
sole purpose is to keep war from
our country and our people.
He said that national defense
production must not be impeded
by strikes or lockouts.
Similarly, he said that the de
fense effort "must not be blocked
by those who fear the future con
sequences of surplus plant capac
ity,’’ because "the possible con
sequences of failure of our de
fense efforts now are much more
to be feared."
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Sectiob Ok"
Sofia, Bulgaria.—The advance
guard of part of the great Ger
man expeditionary force now
fanning out in southeastern Eur
ope reached the Bulgarian fron-
• tier wrterday while Bulgars, la
nli%rl& i potential ave-
nne to Greece, or Turkey or the
Russian-dominated Black Sea.)
Informed quarters said Bulga
ria. was likely to permit passage
of German troops, under protest,
recognizing the “futility’’ of arm
ed resistance.
Frontier districts reports said
fresh Nazi troops could be seen
tak'Tis up positions, occupying
barracks and arraying equipment
at Giniglu, on the Rumanian s’de
of the border, across the ice-
blocked Danube from Ruscuk.
VOU XXXIII. No. 80
II j I 'irT"j II ' I "inii III! i I I iii^r i]n^~ ' i ^ ^
Published Mondays and Thu^ays JJO|^TH'WII^£Sb6EO. N. 30., 1940 $1.60 In the SUte
mmammmmmrnmmtifm
$2.00 Out of SfiCikJ
^uld R^ter |
Now For Defense.
Class Next Week'
Clan In Machine Operation
Will Bef& On Monday,
January 6th
Young men desiring to take ^
training in the defense classes j
here must register with the local
branch of the North Carolina
State Employment Service tliis
week if they want the machine
operation course. B. G. Gentry,
office manager, said today.
Young men of ages IV through
24 are eligible to take the course
and the maximum to be enrolled
to learn machine operation is 15,
according to the preliminary an
nouncement.
The courses are being offered
with the cost paid by the feder
al government in order to train
men for work in defense indus
tries. There will be thirty hours
per week tor 12 weeks and the
course will be held at the time
most convenient for the enrolles.
The first class in machine ope
ration will assemble at the North
WMlkeshoro high school on Mon
day. January 6. four p. m.
-Announcements relative to oth
er courses iu other trades may
be expected soon, sponsors said.
23rd Recipient of &no?’#’.lBIbod
Ip^ 2
Men By P(di(^
Troy Reynolds Held For En
tering Home; Negro Is
Held For Assault
Police’ here disclosed today
that tw^^fjhon are being held
without privilege of bond on cap
ital charges.
Troy Reynolds, local white man
with a record of several offenses,
was bound' ,io superior court to
day withohC bond on charges of
breaking and entering with in
tent to commit rape.
He is allgeed to have broken
Mrs. Leslie Walts cheers her mother, Mrs. Hsie! Farmer, victlnTS into the home of Baxter Wyatt in
staphylococcus septicemia, who wlU be the twenty-third recipient of the this city three o’clock Sunday
blood of Mrs. Rose McMnllin, of Washington, D. C. Mrs. Farmer, whose morning and tried to get into the
home Is lir Oklahoma City, was brought to Chicago to await the srriTal bed with two girls, ages 13 and
of Mrs. McMuUin, whose blood has saved the Uves of 22 persona. 'rh„u u,.r„uncH oaiied fheir
g,, Offered This Qm
•/,
1
A
London.-IVaves of German
raiders apparently l)cnt on set
ting fire to many London buiid-
ings showered the empire capital
with incendiary and. high explos
ive bombs last night in a com
paratively short raid which rival
ed the worst of London’s mu 'y
batterings in intensity.
Many air raid worker.^ were
mite City Are
Helped This Year
Christmas Cheer Materials
Delivered By City Truck
On Wednesday
The rhr'stmas Tbeor organiza
tion here, headed by Police Chief
J. E. W'alker. who U also city
welfare officer, and Mrs. J. L.
Clements, reported that there
were no empty stockings in
homes of the city's needy fami
lies Christmas morning.
The city truck delivered Christ
mas Cheer materials Monday to
.5.5 families with 165 children.
Members of the Hi-Y club in
North Wllkeshoro school aided in
the distribution.
Donations to Christma.s Cheer
iviau/ ifUUallUIIS
believed to have died in the des- „j.|j ^0j.e made by church or
perate task of ladling and sub- j ganizations. civic organizations,
doing the fires but London civil- many individuals and the city
Volume Of Ma3
Is The Heaviest In
History Of City
Holiday Mail Sets Record,
Going And Coming At
North Wilkesboro Office
Holiday News
In The County
Except for a shooting, a fire
cracker explosion, a cartridge ex
plosion and a man caught "opos
sum hunting’’ in a chicken house,
the holidays passed off quietly
iB waiteB
of" the Ferguson comnicnlty, wes
jailed Christmas Day for the
shooting of Hill Allen, a wTiite
man of the Fergiisen community.
Officers said that Ferguson ad
mitted shooting Allen in the leg
and shoulder but said he did it
in self defense after Allen as
saulted him. Ferguson appeared
to have been in a fight. Otficer.5
said that Allen’s wounds prob
ably would not prove critical. -
Ray McNeill, fourteen-year-old letters and packages
— liAaxpfAt* tr/xincr
volume 0 f ChrlsHwss?
mall. It was learned today 'from
M. A. 'Vickery, assistant post
master.
A breakdown in the counter on
the cancelling machine made it
impossible to make an accurate
check on the volume but the mail
clerks who have been in the of
fice for years knew what they
were talking about when they
said they had never .seen so many
ians. as if sensing a short, intense
raid like the Nazis Introduced to
London last Friday night, rushed
to shelters and tubes when the
alarm sounded.
Numerous city districts were
welfare department. Students of
North Wllkeshoro school on
Wednesday, December 18, donat
ed sufficiently to care for fifteen
famlliee.
The activities were handled
with the debris caused by the
hoBTy bombs.
The first planes came when
darkaess closed in on the city
BBd the Nazis kept at it until
XMumeruus viLj lue
bathed la flame and showered through the city welfare depart-
.ment, which had a complete list
of needy families, and all organi
zations and ii^ividuals cooperat
ed In order that' there would not
gmm tae a.?,., «i. ,v -"be duplications and so that all
shortly before midnight when the«needy families might be cared for
.all claar was sounded. |and none overlooked.
Membership In Pension Associations
Ntf Help In Seeming Monthly. Grants
son of Mr. and Mrs. I. A. McNeill,
of Millers Creek, lost parts of
three fingers on his right hand
when a firecracker exploded pre
maturely in his hand. He was
treated at the Wilkes hospital,
where physicians said he prob
ably will also lose the thumb on
his right hand.
A girl by the name of Cather
ine Glass was slightly hurt when
a cartridge exploded in a fire
place and the bullet penetrated
her leg.
W. E. Harris, former mayor of
j Wilkesboro, locked a man in his
chicken house Wednesday about
three a. m. He went to the jail,
only a short distance away, and
back to his chicken house, to see
Whom he had prisoner. ‘It was
Monroe Mahaffey. Wllkesbora
resident, who said he wa.s "opos
sum hunting" and wandered into
the chicken house, thinking that
probably an opossum had gone
in there after chickens.
He was jailed on a
stealing j^lekena, oMlcere said.
AncRher old age pension
scheme is making jts rounds In
Wilkes and many aged people
have misunderstood its promises,
retmlting in considerable disap
pointment, Charles McNeill, wel
fare officer, said today.
Membership con>on« at ten
cents each have been circulated
by persons reputed to represent
the National Old Age Pension as
sociation. Th scheme asks for one
^hne as membership fee in the
association, which favors bigger
BHr and better pensions.,' for aged.
The coupon says^lf favors a bill
HMv which would proTUrt $50 per
month for perspns over 50 years
of agfiltith income tiBder $1,200
per war.
The welfare officer said It was
bad aaough for the agqd peopla
ffbo are In need to sacrifice a
aaeh for nothlag bnt probab-
mong the gullible aged, many of
whom seem to believe that all
they need to do after reading the
ten cent coupon is to present It
at the welfare office and receive
$50 per month- for the balance
of their natural lives. *
Several have called at the wel
fare office a:,d have been some
what insistent abont having the
$50 per month begin immediate
ly. It takes a lot of valuable time
to explain that the coupon and
membership in the association
counts for naught and the appli
cant goes away disillusioned.
The welfare officer explained
that the vafious pension organi
zations bhie no connection with
public assistance, which pays
eqnsarratjlTe sums to needy aged
O'ver 85 years of age, and that
mamfaorship in the pension asso,
ciatlons has no bearing on aligl^!
Offer Awards For
New Year’s Baby
Eigllit Local Firms Offer Val
uable Awaurds To First
Baby Bom !u 1941 '
volume was heavier going
coming.
By working many hours over
time the office was able to han
dle the great volume of mail
without holdovers or delay and
the business of carrying greetings
and gifts moved along smoothly.
The holiday rush began a little
earlier thi.s year and this factor
helped some in the task of hand
ling Ihe Christmas mailing and
deliveiT-
six. They screamed, called their
father and the man whom one of
the girls identified as Reynolds
fled back through the window.
He was later arrested by police
and the hearing was held thi.s
morning before Mayor R. T. Mc-
Niel.
Mrs. Pauline Wells, formerly
of High Point but who had Iteeii
staying here at Mrs. Julia Lov-
ette’s boarding house, told Police
Chief J. E. Walker that a negro
identified as being Vernon I’oe,
formerly of. West Jefferson, tried
Ihe'"
street, she said, when the negro
ran into the street and forced
her into the field nearby, where
.she managed to escape after he
had torn her coat off. Police
checked her story, found the foot
prints and arrested Poe, who was
carrying a pistol.
He was tried in city court to
day for carrying concealed weap
on and sentenced to 12 months
on the roads hut the assault
charge was continued unti] next
Monday because Mrs. Wells did
Guard Unit
. /* ji
Puerto Rico Draft
A Faerto Rican moantain man
reads the sign telling him that men
between 21 and 36 must sign up for
military service. The Puerto Ucan
registry date was November 28.
Larger Volume Of
4
Business Good In All Lines;
Trading Area Of City
Further Expands
Holiday business with retail
firms set a new record in North
Wilkefboro this year, is the con
sensus of oHnion expressed by
several merchants here.
Christmas shopping gained vol
ume a few days earlier here than
Meeting Callea
Tuesday N^ht
AtTbeCityHalll
Adjutant General Wants
pression From People In
terested In Company
North Wilkesboro is one of 3S
North Carolina towns and citlee
which have been tentatively des
ignated as headquarters for
home guard units, according to
an announcement issued in Ra
leigh by North Carolina Adjutant
General J. Van B. Metts.
The home guard units, approv
ed recently by Congress, ylll be
established soon to perform du
ties formerly handled by the
state’s national guard. Sites for
the units, all of which will be
Infantry, were selected Py Gen
eral Metts and approved by Gov
ernor Hoey. •
Each unit wllj be authorised t»
have as many as 50'qBlistsd nea
and three officers,
Letter Sent .to Mayors
well as to x^ataaen of the boards^
of commissioners of counties la
which the designated raunicipall-
ties are situated.
TTie letter, after asking the of
ficials to state whether they de
sired a home guard unit In their
localities, explained how the un
its would be organized.
Since North Carolina’s quota.
moiiua; —- — ]in former'years and continued to
not appear to testify. .Meanwhile, . right on up to Christmas
the negro is being held without
privilege of bond.
Officers said they had been
informedi that Mrs. Wells left
Sunday by automobile and not re
turned. They stated they did not
know why she had not returned
to testify this morning against
Poe.
Sinclair Plant
Champion Feed, ,, a a *
HakW, Here HereOpMAjair
Bigger And Better Distribut
ing Plant Erected Fol
lowing Hie Flood
^1^ »!/• - *• - *- •
If tk^ gpsetor evU Is wrought by blltty to receive public assisUnce
the dlgwpolatment it c*a«« a-Igranta. ,
The first white baby born In
Wilkes county in 1941 will be
awarded a number of valuable
Bftlclea by merchants and busi
ness firms of this city.
Eight firms are offering priz
es, which are,des«;|bed la the adr
vertisement on page eight M this
Cbempion Poultry Farm
Buys Amco Feed sum! Hat-
ekery StoivOn lOlh St.
• Undaunted by the loss of their
Champion Poultry farm, owned big plant Here In the flood Au-
j.and operated by T. O.-Mlaton and gust 14, |teffnlng com-
h- • » "iwated to be the latest single hany haa\ erejpted a hlgg^ ^ and
charge or ponjt^ farm la the eonn- better plant at the same location
try, ha* phrehased the Amco ' on Maple street.
Feed aad ..Hatchery Store’ on i W. J. Bason, agent, has an-
Tenth street In this city and Its nounced that the new and modern
name has been changed to Cham- distributing plant Jnst completed
plon Feed and Hatehery. ' I Is now open for business with
Janies Pennell, who has many ^ more facilities than ever -before
years ’ iperi«®** poultry, to serve the company’s many pa-
.hatch(if-and .feed.'-haslness, has Irons Ih this part of the state,
■been retained as manager for the j The plant suffered heavily in
PStabUskment, whfeh wlU feature the flood, when practically all
Champton Feeds end .GhiimMoa the equipment and stock, includ-
chlcks ffom Champion Poifl^y Ing the large storage tanka, were
Farm, The managerneat cordial- destroyed.
newspaper. The codperatlng firm's ^
are Belk’s, Emily’s Beauty Sa
lon. G. P. Store. Tomlinson’s.
Rhodes-Day, Duke Power Com
pany, Brame’s and Rare’s^-j j
The atlpnlatlons are; the
mother and father be residents of
Wilkes county, that the birth eew-
tiftcate. be presented as proof ol
birth and that the^data.Jtphr gad
minute must b# certiflwl ^ th«:
attending physician. Report*
mast reach JThe Joamal-Bia$clot
oiqCice not later than six tPcIoekitefi
oa Friday erealng, January $•
. .* -■ .1:*
Farm, the managemesit cordU - destroyed. ^ ^ S Naval ! the winter winds could come. The
ruar .n Llo„. _was written inightbeto.ha.ng ..n^stormy.
eve. All lines reported satl.sfac-
tory activity.
North Wilkesl)oro merchant.s
bought heavily in anticipation of
a big volume of holiday trade and
were able to fill the demands of
Christmas shoppers more easily
than ever before, despite the in
creased volume.
The holiday shopping season
witnessed further expansion of
North Wilkesboro’s trading area
as numerous people from a con
siderable distance thronged the
streets of the city in the pre-hol
iday period.
Mayor R. T. McNid hjus
called a mass meetinff of citi
zens for Tuew«lay nlglit, seven
o’clock, at the city hall, at
whii-h time the home guard
proposition wwi be Iii*eu.s.sea.
The time In limited and tho
proper uuthorlt'es must be no
tified immediately whether ov
not Nortli Wllkeslioro want.-) a
home guard nnlt. .'ll! are urged
to attend the meeting Tuesday
niglit in order that Slayor Mv
\iel may give the Adjutaiit
General an ImmexUate an-swer.
♦*eu»eaa»aaaae*aa>aaaaa»
as authorized by the War De
partment, was 2,006 hom*
guardsmen, there is a possibility
that additional units, in a few
Mr. H. C. Roberts, of Cycle, other North Carolina munlclpaM-
wa^ a business visitor In the Wll- ties, will be established later ky
kesboros Friday. I (Continued on page tour)
Heartenii^.Meuage In Letter Fnnn
Lt.-CommaiiderEllerTolBsPareBb
"Wholly and forever uncon-1 Thanksgiving dinner last night;
querable” was the words used by 1»»1 for the first time I knew that
^ I the day had come and gone. I
Lieutenant Commander Ernest Christmas does not run a-
Blier to describe the attitude of , same manner,
the English people in a letter j "The countryside was lovely
mailed from London to his fath-j coming along today. All the quiet
er and mother. Mr. and Mrs. E. ! shades of brown that put the land
E. Eller, of North Wllke.shoro. j to sleep In autumn tinged the
The letter of the Lieutenant : hills and trees. English cottagw
Commander, who was sent a few | hiMdled in coves as if opening
months ago to England to serve j their arms to the sunshine betofw
at the «»ore and 'dlacuss with ties tor distributing service, as- aiiacne, m - -
then, their piKGtry problem, and’aurlng every^ dealer and “patron en tomhin, had h^n donduet:
to try Champion Feeds wrlth that a complete stock of the
their gkleks and flocks. famous Sinclair products will be
j^H^H.*u>re is-to$dnd $>y the, available all the time.
maBy Fhhrs of poultry exp^ence' Mr. Bason -extends a cordial
on Paltry Farm and Invitation to every patron and
nMtUBSiR ,ar« assntwd that tHer friend to vUlT^e retonstraeted
will be iwoolvlng the pame qual-Nplant aiid Inspect thVnew^facili-
pradggfii which - bave con- ties vhfch will p^ov^de^ ir iSdSi-
ilete service fpf' nwitiedlats
Ibwwd /.making- - Chhm-
ity
tribuh .
pjoti I^B^ry' Fam one ot | the
nation^ most progressive and
il Mtorprises .'in }ih*
.1) riilfianri^Ull lake no to
patteiii^ lira teefiv M
-proMMr ^hhwr; been qxcomdpi^
(Pj^ te.heiitt
in _
,_'oa.gh >thp ihgRT Sinclair deal-
.ers 1n; this -part-qf the state.
^Iffi-OPEN WiPNBSpAY
L. Clements klndergar-
■ ...
Wll levBCUAi-rci ws.ws «— • I - _ .
ed here only a few days ago. His I little bombing had been dondnet-
dntles are to help gather confl-ied; so Und and people were well
dential information for the Unit-| reeled
ed States government.
Text of the letter, addressed to
"Dear Mother and Dad," was as
follows:
"thanksgiving has passed, and
I had no Ide^ that it was even
on the borison. Almost I worked
harder on that day than for many
days prevlohsly, being at Investi
gations until seven o’clock at
night and writing reborts long
attm* supper. Today aftor, return
ing from London to Portsmouth,
J while ,w« werpr riding hart to
on to eewatry, "’^soms-
haftog .'bad '»
obe
^icDicu, rsady to face a day of
sun and labor.
"Yesterday I was on many
ships and talked to many people.
All were strong, brave and un
troubled. All seemed to -know,
that nothing coUld dhake -,.;tkMSt
that only one future lay rttoC
that they wero^whoHy aoif tm" -
ever unoe«4n«niMe. Few. i^^eee'
things omM oui I*, rtgito I
satton. Tbsy talk,, mow antb aA^'
ih the same rontiiw-WNf:)4x.iflu
pasvle eyerjrwkwiu B*$ tee .aW
_ i thtoj'
oae^
_ tnalVhlo