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4apu.—'diMk
si
MTvrto* f^M|k'4M^UBll«d darinc
■ddien
UBh«d
blMtod
in a
m-
out ot imbdrtani
yoattlons In the eentna Mctor
»«*■»» troni and held theA
^ Mveral connter^taeh^'
dhiB (orernmeiit siokeeuian de
mand last nicht. "' i' j
The speedy arrlyal of' Greek'
reliiforeements help^ the attack-
~ _ ei« tetala their grip on tH'e po-
sHlons, he said.
Mortars, machine guns, muni-
tiOBe and other material were
captured in this action. In anoth-
er part of the front the Greeks
captured three guns In good con
dition.
I liOndon.—^I^ondon had a minor
t tlef^htae hilts air raid Just before
‘'^a^tUiight and e».rly today—the
fSrt air attack after dark since
Sunday, hut the show put on by
the OwTnan bombers and chai
rs lenglng British night fighters sur-
rW' passed any previous midnight
I 1 performance over the capital.
The raid began at an unusually
late hour for attacks oh London
and the rattle of machinegun
fire overhead Indicated the fight
ers were In action.
The “all-clear’’ sounded during
the early morning hour®.
Another alUrm about two hours
later was preceded by a series of
heavy explosions.
During the clear intei'val, the
.pin.polhts of distant bursting
Italian Meets Greek
• 1."^
An Italian prisoner of the Greeks
scoops out the remains of his prison-
To Army
Both Draft
Select Men To
County’s Quota
Seven From Boerd Nundtev^
One and 12 From Board
Number Tvro Notified
Both draft boards in Wilkes
county have notified the men who
, are to fill the county’s January
I quota of 17 men and two to re-
shells could be seen on London’s ^ dinner as he chats with one of
outer dejense as a new wave of i Bghters to whose prowess
night raiders approached. How- | |,j, present plight.
ever, the defenders apparently i ^
were so confident in the strength iir«H n
of the ne v fighter f ! 55 WllKeS BOyS
the anti-aircraft barrage that no
sirens were sounded and the
mans flew away. i in
Shortly before the air alarm in
the capital, gunfire burst out
over one London district.
Before London was attacked. |
raiding Nazi planes were in flight ,
over other areas of England. j
Enroll In C.C.C.
Camps Friday
Washington. — Secretary o f
State Cordell Hull and Secretary
of the Treasury Henry Morgen-
Enroll At Laurel Springs, Go
To Madison And Then
To Western Slates
Fifty-five Wilkes co'unty boys
than Jr warned Congress yester-j will be enrolled in the
day that the
mited States will Conservation camps
Civilian
Friday,
be' imperilled unles.s it supplies | Charles McNeill, superintendent
II' , tn Creat Britain in I of public welfare, said today.
her°flght. agaiari Germany and | The boys, selected from needy
Italy.
families, will go to the camp at
Both
anneared before t h e j Laurel Springs for examination . , ,
committee land enlistment and wIB then bejof U men
British - aid bill.'son. The welfare otOCfer saKrThSt report here at 8:80 a. m. Of the
place two volunteers sent in De
cember and w'ho failed to pass
the examination at Fort Bragg.
Wilkes board number one, with
headquarters at 'Wilkesboro, had
five volunteers tor the call ot six
men on January 20 but R- was
necessary to use one to fill a re
placement of one who was sent
back last month and the board
found it necessary to draft two
men.
Number 1.8 got into the news
again when it was found that the
first man drafted by the board
had order number 13. He is
Owdls Lloyd Johnson, of Oak-
woods. Charlie Cicero Call, of
North Wilkesboro route three
and with order number 14, wa.s
the other drafted. The volunteers
to go from board number one
Monday are: Blaine William
Nichols. Millers Creek; Albert
Lee Hamby, Parsonville; Buel
Lonzo Houck, Wilkesboro; Archie,
Weldon Laws, Parsonville; Arn
old Franklin Bumgarner. Wilkes
boro route one. The board has in
structed them to report at the of
fice of the board in the federal
building at Wilkesboro at 9:30
a. m. on Monday, January 20.
Wilkes board r.imber two. with
headquarters here, had a quota
•nci« pbetta. released by the British admiralty, five the layman an'Me* ed what goes on
.1^ coBH^anes. Top left, scene In the below-deck hangar of an aircr^ wler
■IrifW, the ground crew Ukes to its heels as the motors rev np for the takeoff. Lower left, tte port wing of ■
Walrni plane gets its load of bombo before the takeoff. Lower right, a war bird comes home to roost.
Three White Men .
Held For Death 01
Negro On Sunday
Lawrence Miller, secretary of
the Triple A In Wilkes, said to
day that farmers who plan to use
‘super-phosphate obtained through
... J ... the farm program purchase plan
Sincla'r Adams Dies in Jail gjmuld make application this
Of Injuries Received
Saturday Night
week if possible.
Mr. Miller hopes to be able to
order two full csrloadti' this week
After 8 lengthy investigation'^“1 "«eds only IB to 20 more
jury empannelled by Wilkes to complete the order.
Coroner IjiM- Myers late Monday
ordered three white men held
under boodo of $2,500 each for
the death ‘
cal negro;
early
far-reaching
Sinclair Adams, lo-
died in Wilkes jail
from injuries re-
Varied Projects
Planned In Drive
Directors Of
Northwestern
Bank Reelected
Excellent Business And Big
Growth For Year Report
ed At Bank’s Meeting
Stockholders of the Northwest
ern Bank, which has home office
here and branches in eight other
northwestern North Carolina
towns, held their annual meeting
Tuesday.
Reports of the officers showed
T. B. Story, Wflkee repreeenti^
live in the 1941 legislature, is a
member of nine house compaft-
tew. Milee F. Shore, of Tadkfa
eonnty, who r^iresents this sea-
atorlal district composed of
’Wllkoa, Yadkin and Davie cona-
ties, is on seven senate commit
tees.
Story was placed on the foU
lowing committees; Ccrporattona
Courts and Judicial District^
Drainage, Federal Relations.
Higher Education, Journals, Ju
diciary number two. Library and
Trustees of the University.
Shore was placed on Appropri
ations, Counties, Cities and
Towns, Election Laws, Enrolled
Bills, Insurance, Pensions, SoU
dlers Home and Senatorial DI»-
trlcts committees.
The Budget Commission haw
recommended a budget totallBg
$163,635,382 in state money for
the next two years.
Governor Broughton urged the
General Assembly to maintain a
balanced budget, lengthen the
list of sales tax exemptions, and
Increase no taxes.
The record expenditure, con
tained in the unanimous report
of the advisory budget commis
sion and former Governor Hoey,
goes as far "as prudence would
dictate.” Governor Broughton
said. The budget would be bal
anced and practically every stats
agency and institution would re
ceive Increased funds.
The two measures went before
their respective Joint committees.
General Fund E\i>endltim»
General fund expenditures next
biennium would tt^tal about $92,-
500,000, compared with $83,750,-
000 this blSBnhim and $50,250,-
thpV^l»22-35, Spaces
ot
At
situation
Hull’s testimony was
largely to a portrayal
gloomy international
which he attributed to the ruth-
lessncss’ ot totalitarian powers^
Morgenthau submitted a bal
ance sheet of British finances
which wa equally gloomy in re
spect to Britain’s ability to pay
devoted he had been informed that the
the ^ grootp will eventually be trans-
the
ferred to caiiip.s west of
Rocky Monnta ns for service.
The welfare officer also ex
plained that requirements for dis
tribution of the pay of the boy.s
has been changed until it is now
possible for a member of a camp
his
anect to isruaiu s ^
?or continuous pirrcha.ses of mu-1 to save some money during
nUions in this country- -the only period of camp service,
land in which the treasury secre
tary said she can obtain them.
He reported that war piircha.s-
es and other orders in this coun
try to be met by Britain in 1941
total $:t.1)19.UOO.000. Britain’s
total dollar assets were given at
$1,775,000,01)0 a.- of January 1,
1941 and an additional $1,555.-
000,000 will be available in dol
lar receipts toward liquidation of
this obligation.
Relief Warehouse
For County Move^
Postal Receipts
Total New Record
In Last Quarter
Over $10,000 In Three Mon^
ths; Receipts For The
Year Increase $941
12 seven are volunteers: William
Bud Burchette, Robert Ford Ad
ams, Howard William Carrigan,
Claude Allen Taylor, Paul Eu
gene Rhodes. Woodrow Bain
Wood and Sant ford David Brown.
The five drafted men with local
order numbers are: Oid Edward
Shumate, 6; Jeesle Oliver Caudle,
29; James Harvey Holler. 40;
Thurman Franklin Bowlin, 51;
■Willie Parsons. 72. ^
The hoard also notified four his
j to report as replacements in the
i event any ot the above are not
inducted into the army: Ronald
Boyd Sturgill. 82: Clinton Ray
Smoot, S3; Rudy Walker. 85; Al
bert Bentley Parsons, 106.
Preparing for another call,
draft board number 2 has mailed
questionnaires to order numbers
301 to 350 as follows:
v^e ordered held under
. it $2,500 each and Walt
,_^11, local negro was placed
unde)L $500 bond for his partici
pation in the affair.
A48ms, age 21,
stagfering on the
Chaimuih Aflnotmccd Plane
For Raising Futids In
W‘lkes This Year
the year enil^ with resources to-!be 170,061,OOd,-In addition to
tnlfng 15,247,548.41. which rep-,$3,815,397 yearly expected In
resents an Increase of over $1,-1 federal aid. Provision would be
500.000 over total resources two‘made in the highway budget for
years ago. 'reserving $2,500,000 yearly for
was found / Blackburn, chair-
. I man of the President’s Birthday
8iaKB»rinK on me street nere I ^ ^ , » wrin
earl^fiunday morning by Police-i
manr Harold David. Adams ap- ‘y- ^
r-ilO aftLF. I • •
The bank was formed in July,' Possible diversion ’o the
me oauK was rormeo in juiy. ^ - - ^ ^
19.87. by merger of, the Deposit fund-though the budge showed
and Savings bank here with only $2,203.901 as ey
banks at Sparta, Boone and Bak-, ^‘'’Cted.
man .Harold David. Adams ap- ’ ^ . , , , i (Governor Broughton has ex-
, 'projects have been put into mo- ersville and with branches of the looieinoi n r.
peariw to have been badly beat-1 ” ^ . _ , „ , v , .‘nresviHri onnosUion to .such df-
^ J u J u J i. !,•„« lion to raise funds to fight infan- Boone and Bakersville banks at pressea oi uo
en 8nd had been drinking. He . . . . „orainn while nrovisio
en uiu nau oeeii uiuiimhs. , ,
was taken to the hospital, where 1 o para ys s.
I Present plans for January 30
ruts and bruises about his | >
facsSrere dressed and the physi-1
rac0,,wrere oressen ann me piiy. i Auxiliary cliiblionse. a
cian‘ asked that he be brought
back Ister for more thorough ex
amination. He died in jail some
time after , two a. ni. Monday
morning when other prisoners
.said he appeared to have been
taking tits.
Examination of his body dis-
‘closed concussion of the brain as
round dance at the Woiman’s by addition of a new bn'.iich at
Albert Lee Caudle. John Ar- if be had been hit on the head
thiir Sebastian, Clark Lee Howell, with considerable force.
Surplus Commodities For
Wilkes Cases Will Be Dis
tributed In Wilkesboro
The Surplus Commodities
storeroom for Wilkes county has
been moved from North W’ilkes-
boro to the Jarvis building in
■Wilkesboro across the street from
the front of the county court
house.
Charles McNeill, welfare offi-
eer, said that all relief clients In
Wilkes entitled to surplus com
modities should call at the store,
room in Wilkesboro instead of
North 'Wilkesboro.
The warehou.sc which serves a
district ot about ten northwest
ern North Carolina counties will
remain In the Bcott Cheese fac
tory building In North Wilkes
boro, Mr. McNeill said, but
Wilkes cases will be served from
the storeroom in Wilkesboro.
North Wilkesboro postoffice
experienced a record breaking
fourth quarter which helped swell,
postal receipts to a gain of $911
over receipts for 1939, Post
master J. C. Reins said today.
The postal receipts here for
several years have gained about
$1,000 per year. Curtailed activ
ity during the flood season in
August lowered receipts for that
particular period but the last
quarter made receipts for the
year almost up to the usual $1,-
000 increase mark.
club house and a dance at the
community house in Wilkesboro.
But several community pro
jects which will reach a climax
on January 30 have already been
set in motion. Coin boxes have
been placed in places of business
to receive small donations in
the campaign and on January 25
metal tags labeled “Fight Infan
tile Paralysis” will be sold in
this city.
Chairman Blackburn has ap-
pc .ted six community chairmen
to assist In carrying the drive to
year
William Roy Burchett, Colin 1 The story of the affair as was
Joshua Couch. Phola Erne.-t Lay- later brought out in the Inquest
ell, Joseph Staley Darnell. Guy was .that Adams went into the
George Perry, David Eugene Car- Oall^ community with Becknell
rigan Clarence Emanuel Lewis, and-that he was drinking. Beck-
Arlis'Ray Combs. Robert Lee n^^is said to have hit him with Wilkes county. Four
Gryder. Charles Earnest Grose. hl,;rist and set I who have accepted their appoint-
Page Manard Hutchinson. James he met up with Williams and the
Wilson Martin, John Richard two Shew boys and they took him “®nts a^e Mr. K
Crawford. Paul Franklin Warren to ri*® home of Min Shew, where j
Doctor Marvin Stanley. Robert they hit him with various objects,,River; Mrs. J.'L. Greg-.
James Baiiguess. Robert Hamp- incljjding a blackjack made by ^
ton Williams, Clyde Wilson Til- putting a piece of iron in a Pi®®® Millers Creek and Mrs.
ley, Roy Tracy Lael, George W es- of j^erall galluB. ’ William Barber for Wilkesboro
ley I^gan. Joe Beecher N^ly. | ^ams made his ®acape and a acceptances had not
Vance Handy, Vester Monroe Per-,pa^ng motorist on the highway received today, Mr
ry Doctor Commodore Myres, br^ht kim back to North Wil-
During the final qiiarti-r of the Jefferson Hodge, Homer keritoro, where police found him j ’
ar receipts were $10,065.12, be- Elledge, WHlle Moody Pruitt, in dazed and drunken condition, j ^
Claude Paver Galloway. Raymond
Black
ing the'Ilrst quarter that receipts
had ever reached the $10,000
mark.
Total receirts for the year
were $35,239.82, a gain of $941
over the 1939 total.
Receipts Seal
Sale $415.17 Now
Miss DuBose Neiv
Music Teacher Here
ir
Mias Lucille DuBose, of Lamar,
8. has been secured as public
school music teacher for North
Wilkesboro schools and has as-
stMited her duties.
Miss DuBose succeeds Miss
Mary Helen . ZumBrunnen, who
rasictied prior to the holidays he-
nsniih Of ill health.
IHss DnBoee has several years
ince, having taught moslc
Gastonia and China Grove
and was a private in.
Mrs. Boyd Stout, chairman of
the Christmas Seal campaign for
Wilkes county, reported today
that receipts so far have totaled
$415.17.
The goal for the county, Mrs.
Stout said, is $460. She explained
that a number of peop’e in the
county have not responded to
the Christnias seal appeal and an
urgent request is made that they
make their contributions before
February 1 and that all reports
be in by that date. Contributions
should be'sent to Mrs. Boyd
Stout, 'Wilkes chairman of the
Christmas seal fund. North Wll-
keaboro. ,:V
Talmage Petty, Jame-s Fred Ken
nedy, Harvel Pearson Howell.
John Howard Brown, Sehon Ver
non Walker. Rufus Floyd Phifer,
James Carl Barlow, Lester De-
wltte Wiles. Daniel Luther, Har
vey Clinton Blackburn, Willie
Oscar Wyatt, WHliam Crusoe
Owens, James Laytaette Ross,
Paul Douglas Reinhardt. Wamle
Eugene Poplin, James Sylvester
Blledge. R. V. Carlton, James
Edward Holleman, Fred Wyatt.
Milk Fund Dance
Highly Successful
A substantial sum was raised
Thursday night by the North Wil
kesboro Doklee club for the milk
fund in local schools, a member
of the club said today.
I^adles night was observed with
a good dinner and entertaining
program at Roaring ^iver,''after
which the milk fund dance was
held at the Legion and Auxiliary
clubhouse with a large attend*
•neei .
A large crowd of people wit-
irty-five per cent of cedar of Christ” at the Wilkesboro
chjMs sodl today are' purchased nessed the showing- of "The Life
by a,en. ' Methodist church Monday night.
Eprmal O^iMOg And ‘^Open Hou$e
FFor Dijfce ^ower Go. fere Today
Tforth Wilkesboro branch of
thS Duke Power company Is ob-
seriring “open, house” at the
thousand Duke Power^>company
customers in Wilkes county.'
The company's new quarters
“ir.-, — -- — have been the subject of much
fcni!taal openlhg of the company j(2ygj.j^bl8 comment since the of
new offices, showrooms and dem-
qnftratlon room at 309 Ninth
g^pet this afternoon and night.
»^a?be “open house,” daring
v^|cb vlsltons are oordlally tn-
to vliilt the~ ottIcM,
c^nne until 9:30 tonight. Fav-
or^-will be given and,^ refresh-
mnts will be served under di-
rwlon of Miss Addie -Majone,
hOtoe economist of Duke Power
jilipany. . ’ ■ Ifltokett,
The new quarters provide
flees were r roved a few ,dsya ago
from smai i' r quarters on Main
street.
In the front is the .attractive
lobby and display rowns In front
of the spacious office space con
taining six deska. An adequate
•> pingi'ya. ewas - » '
tnhett, ’. caused many school sys-
The lower flojr cont$tbs ware- , bad disrupted
Blowing Rock and
Burn.-'ville. [Version, while provision was mad*
Since that time branches were
added by taking over banks at
Jeffersnn and Taylorsville and
Valdese.
Former Lieut. Governor R. .A.
Doiighton. of Sparta, president of
the bank, presided at the meet
ing.
The directors, who were re
elected by the stockholders, are;
R. A. Doughton, Harry Bailey.
W. C. Berry, W. B. Co lins, R.
L. DOiighton. Ralph Duncan, -W.
D. Farthing. G. W. Greene. M. A.
Higgins, W. W. Mast. J. 8'- Pre-
vette, M. E. Reeves and N. B;
Smithey.
Bank executives expressed sat-
i.sfaction relative to the bank’s
growth during the past year and
predicted good business condi
tions for the ensuing year.
No Epidemics h
North Wilkesboro
School Attendance Has Been
97 Per Cent Since The
Christmas Holidays
this biennium for diversion, no
money has been transferred from
the highway to the general fund.)
Schools would rece’ve a record
budget of $57,939,193. No gen
eral salary increase.s were pro
posed- hut the usual provision
was made tor increase,^ in teach
er pay through the earned incre
ment plan. The budget commis
sion’s rei-cnimendation stated
that a proposed retirement pro
gram would he of far greater
benefit ’’than any small salary
raise.”
This retirement program was
provided in the largest new- item.
It would receive $3.408.1a2 for
the tiiennium for all state em
ployees, including teachers.
Group Studying
Home Guard Plan
Committee Will Meet . Soon
To Make Definite Plana
For Company Here
Absence of any serious epidem
ic of flu or other contagious di
sease In North 'Wllkeeboro is..—,
shown by the school attendance mendaflon of men to be appoint
^ /»rsmnanv.
J. B. McCoy, named chair
man of a committee in a recent
mas.H meeting here to lay plana
for organization of a Home Guard
unit, said todai' that his commit
tee will meet soon to make recom-
.-ecord.
Paul S. Cragan. superintendent
of North Wilkesboro schools, said
today, that attendance since the
school resumed work after the
holidays has been 97 per cent of
school membership and 97 per
Cent Is not bad by any compari
son. I
About two weeks ago there were
a ■’few cases of mumps and one
faculty member was out for a few
days with swelling Jaws but
mampe have sutttlded. There
were also a few Isolated cases of
,! ririckenpox but tihat threat U also
demonstration room was con
structed In the'wiMf>I **1’®*^
floor -with a ptaiflorm ’will community cm be
later he eqntppua as » epidemic .of An *»cl»
*^!*^erybody here is hoping that
ed officers of the company.
North Wilkesboro wa,f one of
35 North Carolina cities picked
by Adjutant General J. Van B.
Metts to have Home Guard units
If such organizations were desired
and at a mass meeting here unan
imous approval was given tka
proposal.
Mr. McCoy said that hq' and
other members of his, committee
iieve been considering the matter
for the past few days and definite
action Is expected atjthe cdmgilU
tee'meeting. The other memhere
are A. F. Kilby, Vf. J- Bason, W.
G. Gabriel and Mfjror
Ind tome to close and hs.- disrupted
auu - — and pny-
In n nitrate of soda-ffOW^^H*"
tlon on the farm- ot JtIbjPt****
Walker, Roanoke ,
from which the
per n«* tlirt. «d eho4 pVit
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