mirn r
IfeidiAiis .
W^t Of Dema
9»t*o. atfpt.—lar tone
t }«adiitc tk« wa^ for tbe
"deMit. foNM iktdiSl Kt a
tOL. XXXI^^
ol«ii«iUi of th« Ltbi^iT port of
Dora* iroro r«porto4 *>y- ®- A.
F.. command, yaater^ay to lutre
cro4^^:^t^od Fasciat trooda re-
tftiUiltt'alt tlio may to Bafeo, 100
mUaa treat'of the menaced town.
Brttiab mechanized forces
(^ratlnK aonth and
waat of. Dema and threatening
Italj*a hold on all erustern Libya,
tha Faaeiat rdtreat indicated Mua-
eollafa .men apoarently had de~
cidad a^inet making a fight of
It ^ Dema.
Inatead, obaervers here believ-
ed the Italians would keep on
paat Barce and make a stand at
Baa^cal, 160 miles beyond Dema
on thh sreetem side of the Ciren-
atioaa Hump which juts into the
Mediterranean.
Oiittiijnber
Deaths In County
By Four To One
' Soinethinfi: for. Nazis' to »Fonder OWj*' -
Vital Statistica Fifttiraa For
County Revealed By^Tfae
Health Department
Nazis Resume
Night Attacks
Upon London
I
London.—Oerman bombers re
turned to the attack on London
last night, their first raid in ten
n%ht^ on the eve of the eighth
ennlrersary of Adolf Hitler’s as
sumption of power in the Reich,
and Nazi big sans simultaneous
ly bombarded the Dover Strait
from across the English Channel.
In Dover there were no known
casualties.
The aerial assault here was in
termittent for four hours; the all-
clear came before 10 p. ni. Ex-
ploeives, flares and fii'e bombs
fell.
Other ereas of Britain were hit
in a widespread, if scattered, as
sault: German planes appeared
hover the western and northern
'sections of England, East Anglia,
central Scotland und the north
east coast.
In i southeastern town several
houses were .^mashed by bombs
and there were casualties.
Four times as many were born
In Wilkes county as died, accord
ing to vital statistics figures re-
leased by the Wilkes county
health department today for
1940.
Births during the year number
1,037 while deaths totaled only
g8I—a ratio of'about four to
one. I
Other figures contained in the
yearly report of the health de-,
pjrtment showed thft the health
department had been very active
In prevention of communica.l)le
dlseasee. Typhoid Immunizations
for the year reached a new high
total of 10,415 while 1,141 were
vaccinated against diphtheria rnd
862 for smallpox. Schick tests
toUled 1,863, of which 245 were
classed as positive.
The venereal dUease clinic was
active throughout the year, treat
ing 335 syphilis cases.
Mae
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At the left Wtozton Churchill inspects the American mechauiz^ sqna^ to London. Tim
posed of Americana from the United States. Eight: A demonstratlonof the various
vehicles acros. a river is given by the British royal engine^. The S^TJrito
lapsible boats. For bringing heavy equipment across, the boats are used as pontoons for • plank bridge.
Pol* Which He Wa» Curry,
r ing Kiila Clarence Hig-
gma Near HU Home
Cliaraice , Higgins, 40-year.
'dB ettlaeii of VTalimt Ortive.
aoFaohfp. was killed instantly
by a ]tog of wood which he was
oairyiiig on his shonkler, Cbr-
oner L' M. Myers, who Investi-
l^ed the death, said.
The coroner said there were
no known eye wltnoeoco to the
freak and fatal aceWent but
indications clearly showed that
the man’s head was crushed by
a log 12 feet long and 6 to 8
inrbes in diameter, which he
was carrying to place beside a
water ditch at his bam.
Higgins, a bachelor who
lived alone, was found dead
near his bam about four o’
clock Mondiay afternoon. The
back of his head showed signs
of liaving received a heavy
blow and blood was oozing
1 Continued on page four)
Transferred at Demand of Germans
Appeal Made For
Memberships For
Benefit Of Library
Old Subs to Guard Harbor Entrances
T. , 1
,'C-'
People Of County May Join'
Library Association; Dues
Only 25 Cents Up
The Wilkes county library as-
aociation, striving for continu
ation of growth and progress of
the public library here. Is this |
tyeek making an appeal for funds ,
(Qt the -porqpase of additional |
& i
Attempt -
May Be Postponed,
England Is Told
London.—A British military
authority suggested yesterday
that the expected early attempt
of the Germans to invade Eng
land might be abandoned because
of the necessity of giving large,
scale help to the Italians and the
exigencies of Nazi inililar> ad-
’ ventures in the Ballosns.
If the Germans do In fact try
the thrust across the Channel, he
added, they will time it to begin
“before Americrn aid becomes
too pronounced.’’
As to the Balkans, the inform.
' ant declared tha’ Nazi mechanics
and technical ti-^ps in civilian
dress were preparing airfields in
Bulgaria and that there were
eight to ten German divisions in
Rumania. •
These preparations, he added,
might signal a.Nazi drive south
wards to Salonika to Isolate the
Greeks in Albania and. with a
strong concen’retion of bombers.
, to attempt to close the Mediter-
Iranean to large British convoys.
Leigh W Hunt second consular secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth Deegan of
AshevUle N t and Cecil M. P. Cross, consul of Providence, E. I.,
all members of the U. S. embassy staff In Paris who were transferred
at German olB'-iai demand on charges of having aided a British officer.
They returned to .\merica aboard a clipper.
Mountain Lions To ! President’s Balls
Play Taylorsville
.North Wilkesboro ..igh school's
varsity and junior basketball
teams will play Tryiorsville here
on Friday night. The first game
will begin at seven o’clock and a
large attendance of basketball
fans is expected.
For Friday Night
Announced Here
jrahiplB iS^ Ai« .'agiSriStion,,,
dues for which are a minimum of > ’
25 cents up as high as a mem-‘
her may wish to contribute.
Text of the letter from the
executive board of the associ
ation. which is being sent to
tbOM.^ands of people In Wilkes,
follows:
■‘Libraries are never finished,
wrote Dr. John H. Finley In a
New ’Vork Times editorial some
time ago. They must include not
only the books that never die but
also those that gather fresh wls
•dom out of the present and look
Legislators Hear
Appeals Increase
Of Teachers Pay
farther into the future.
“So it is that we are again ap
proaching the friends of the
W’llkes County Public LFbrcry for
membership contributions t o
meet- the continuing needs of the
* in.=titiition.
The drive "iT^Wilkes to raise | ’Sin-e our lust naembership
. campaign K'eat progress has been
funds to fight infantile^r-’iralysis
.s
Old submarines of the World war “O’* and “E’’ types are shown
at rest to back channel at the Philadelphia navy yard, where they have consecutive order, who
been gathering sea moss and barnacles. Twenty of these or similar' guestionnaires
craft are expected to Join the Atlantic fleet for duty as guardians of
harbor entrances along the eastern seaboard.
A AAFarmersMeet Speaker For
AAArannerSnieei L;„coln Day Meet
Junior Dance At Woman’s
Clubhouse; Senior At Le
gion Auxiliary Clubhouse
Small Percentage
Tests Are Positive
Boost Of 10 Per Cent And
9th Increment Are
Urged In State
Few Whites In Wilkes Are
Shown To Hare Syphilis;
Colored Is Higher
Pxeetlcally all reports of blood
testa Uken of men registered for
mllKary duty have been mailed
/out. It was learned today from
the Wllkee county health depart-
*”ttentlon was called to the
fact however, that some of the
reports have been returned due
irthanges of address,
that those who have not receiv
ed a report should call at the
health office in the courthouse.,
wakas had a low percentage
at syphilis cases, there being
MlvSt'out of 1,647 white regis-
tr^ and eljht out of « co^;
aC White parcentage Positive
was 2.1 and colored was 8
^cent ' Sixteen wfiltes were
as doubtful apd four* co-
fleattoD.
Cooper Attend*
- Saliilniry Course
im H. Cooper, member of the
Erth Wllkaal»®>^o fire depart-
Wto «lva*»to the Hrhjla-
and vtoi«I^l «w-
“.^l *
p. .'r -i. 'fV , .
Raleigh.--Pleas for a ninth
increment of $5.33 a month and
a general teacher pay raise *of
10 per cent keynoted the rppeal
yesterday of school forces appear-
Ing before the Joint appropria
tions committee.
Clyde Erwin, state superinten
dent of public instruction, told
the committee that restoration of
salaries to the pre-depression lev.
el was needed to prevent an
“exodous of our best teachers’’
to private employment.
“We-must keep the budget of
childhood opportunity balanced
vthether we be lance any other
budget or not,” Erwin declared
“Irrevocuble harm can be done
the children In our schools by
such a defection In our person
nel.
' "We shall never be able to
raise the program of public edu
cation above the level of those
who work In the classroom.”
RMng Prices Cited
The state,superintendent also
cited “rising prices” as another
rerson why teachers, wha?e maxl-
.mum state s-lary Is $1,024 a
year, need a raise.
.The cost of a ninth increment
of $5.33'a month for teachers
with nine years of experience was
eatlmated-to‘4z»'$661.464 for the
hlennlumf ’;FrivldJng a flat In-
ckeaeo of 40 jpar cqnt in t»y for
teachers and prlnelpialB would re-
q4ire '-ail appropriation of $4,.
71040$ to* lt41-43. ,';c ^
will reach a climax Friday nignt
with junior and senior balls in
North Wilkesboro.
.Mrs. R. G. Finley, chairman
for North Wilkesboro. said today
th; I arrangements have teen,)
completed for the two lulls. Th^
junior dance will be at the Wom
an’s clubhouse on Trogdon street
for h.gh school and .hinior high
school ages.
The senior dance, for which an
orchestra has been engaged, will
he at the American Legion and
Auxiliary clubhouse from nine
until twelve. A floor show of 15
minutes durrtlon. to be furnished
by the Finley Studio of Dince.
will add to. the entertainment at
both balls.
Tickets are being sold by the
Woman’s Clubs, Legion Auxiliary
and Parent-Teacher association
here.
Other activities to raise fund.^
rre also being carried out and
the sale of "fight infantile pa
ralysis tags’’ On the streets here
Saturday was reported highly
mad^not only in the number of'
bool^ on our shelves, but In the
serine rendered the reading pub
lic;. In these two years out read-
exk have been increased by more
^an six-hundred, und the circu-
jtion of hooks has doubled. Our
.primary need now. ?s always, L
books, and more hooks. The Li
brary Board hopes to use the
money from membership to buy
reference books and books on
specialized subjects In order .o
make the library of greater ser
vice to school children. One hun
dred books have just been pur
chased oat of money on hand and
these will soon be available to
rerders. These Include much call
ed for adult fiction, fiction for
boys and girls, and a collection
for every small child. Also a num
ber of the newest books of adult
fiction and non-fiction for the
rent shelf. It is our hope that
more and more people will use
the Library. We seek the assist
ance your contribution will give
us in promoting its welfare.”
InConferenceWith
Agencies’ Leaders
Plan To Encourage Greater
Number Of Farmer* To
Participate In Program
Todd Darnell Dies
Funeral service will be held
successful, approximately • $87
having been raised by that means.
Coin boxes have been plrced at - jenday afternoon,
many points for collection of oth-i Darnell,
er .=mall contributions. | ^ Vannoy
Today the community commit
teemen and county committeemen
of Wilkes county, with repre.sen-
tatives from the Soil Conserva
tion office, Fijrm Security office,
and other associated agencies met
at the courthouse and discussed
methods that could be used to
help a greater number of Wilkes
county farmers participate In the
AAA program and the manner
that they might secure groiter
payments in 1941 than they did
in 1940, as an indirect result of
more Improvements being car
ried out on their frams.
The meeting wa? held in the
courthouse and Mr. Cornwall,
atrte committeeman,’aselited by
j. Alvin Prop^t, who fa a district
field man for the AAA organiza
tion went Into detail* *• to the
manner that the TFlIkes ooun\y
farms might be improyflfl-
A very Interesting talk was
made by Miss Elizabeth Williams,
home demonstration agent, on
home grrdens and dUeui#ion of
the mattress centers in‘the coun
ty, which are under her control.
The entire personnel of the
county agent’s office, home dem
onstration agent’s Office-
AAA' office, in addUlDtf to the as
sociated organiiatlona and tnter-
esiod farmers, attended this meet
ing. -f3,Y-i',:
Building And Loan
Continues Growth
During Past Year
Over $€2,000 Added To As
sets Of North Wilkesboro
Association In Year
111
Mailed T*
ijrBoaidi
ft.'
WUkea Boards. Rflutf
To Fill Quota Of M«a
.For February Call
In order to have an adequata'
supply of i^.,claasiilied for tfta,
next call, ^-'Wilkes’ two draft
boards miiilsd dat addltiaiuil
qneetloniMlres this week. '
Draft board number one, with
office in the federal building ia
Wilkesboro, mailed question
naires to men'wlth order numbers
241 to 288. The men. In consecu
tive order according to order
numbers, were;
Sherrill Elrvin Elqrp, Finley
Quinton Yates, Edmond Don Ash.
ley, Joseph Sylvester Curtis, John
Orinton, Maynard John Dewey
Robinson, J. P. Harris, Basil Jar
vis, Herman Paul Higgins, Theo
dore Marshal Roberson. Noah
Richard Walker, Granville Mon.
roe Goforth, Marsh Hubert Myers,
Harold Vincent Bumgarner. Ree-
10 r Roosevelt Hay^, Charlls
Wake Church, Spencer Brownlow
Blackburn, John Gentle, William
Bryant Johnson, Russell W. Mill
er, James Monroe Combs, Denver
Woodrow Johnson, William, Er
nest Linney, Quincy Adam Brown,
Joe Pearson, Jr., Ralph Lelon
Carter, John David Somers, Al
bert Marlow, Albert ._Lee Hamby,
Willard Brown, Joseph Washing
ton Porter, Charles EMwln Faw,
Hayden Burke Hayes, Charlto
Guy McGlamery, John,Royal An
derson, Millard S'teley, Columbus
Herbert Sturdivant, Albert Ray
Staley, Ronda Woodrow Russel,
Robert Lonnie Baity, John DUon
Junior Costner, Carlls Gregory#
Andrew Toy Greene, Andrew
Phllx Nichols, Mack Tom Joins,
A. A. Yates. Spencer Otto Yates,
James Lee Pierce.
Draft board number two, which
r,«
to men with local order numbar
401 to 450, and to one volunteer,
Charlie Howard Owens, of North
Wilkesboro. .The men’s names. In
received
mailed Monday,
are:
Charlie Robert Creed, Theo
dore Roosevelt Harrold. Irvin
Sidney Adams. Lonnie Thomas
Cothren. Lonnie Roibert Brown,
Boyd Johnson Caudill. Richard
Iray Collia-^, John Crlvln Wyatt,
r., Linville Eugene Brown, The-
Irdell
R. Don Laws, editor of the na
tionally known 7ellow Jacket, of odore Roosevelt McOinn.
Moravian Falls, will deliver the Theodore Watkins. George Wash-
address at a Lincoln Day dinner
lo be held at the Alumaiice Hotel . « ,
in Burlington on the night of Raymond Spicer. Lonnie Buel
January 10. The dinner there will Kilby, Rex Wll.son West. Cilmer
be under auspices of the Ala- Woodruff Caudill. William Rich
malice County Republican club
It is expected that Wilkes will ■
make an excellent showing in!
the drive this year, which Is re
ceiving good support from public
spirited people who wish to have
some paFt ip the tight against a
disease which qnnually cripples
so^many of the nution's people. .
1 Marriage License
CZ^X,/ w., —
community "who died Wednesday
evening.
He Is survived by his widow.
Mrs. Annie Wfngler Darnell, and
ten children.
Episcopal Se^ce
Vesper service will tie held at
St. Paul’s Episcopal church' Sun
day afternobnr February. 2nd. at
turnips
D D Pope'of th# 'Woodleaf
community In
epent 50 cento for enough
seed to plant one aer# fr#« Which
he harveeted $13# worth of tui-
nips, reports AselaUiJit Farm A-
gent P. H. Satterwhit#. '
ouy AALCIB aavwuf -
A marriage license wrs issued (our 'o’clock'. Visitors and' friends
during the pest week from the (/re‘invited to attend,
■Wllkee 1»
over the .total reached et bhejoloee
office of C. C. Bidden,
register of deede, to Isaac Wag-1 ■) Mtae Kitty Beckett, Chsrlee-
onor, of NcOrsdjr, «nd ^Innie A. ton# 8. C.. ba»^b##n ^Hdlng : #4
Ce«dfll,>f, Sfriji^d. |f#ir tojto'
’^PROFTTABlJ* '
A small flock of ;■ T«blt#
LMchorn hens is rqtiHfiiteS
it Thohtllj-' iwi^brts -
North Wilkesboro Building and
Loan association held its annual
meeting on Monday night at the
city hall, heard a comprehensive
report of business during the past
year, and re-elected all the di
rectors.
The directors are: S. V. Tom
linson, J. C. Reins, A. H‘ Casey,
D. J. Carter, H. M. Hutchens, J.
B. Snyder, R. G. Finley, W. H.
H. Waugh, J. H. Rector, C. E.
Jenkins, C. P. Walter and J. B.
WilHatns.
J. C. Reins was re-elected pres
ident and the other officers nam-
Ad for another year were: S. V.
Tomlinson, vice president; J. B.
Williams, secretary - treasurer;
and A. H. Casey, attorney.
The stockholders meeting was
opened by the president and C. P.
Walter was asked to preside and
rd Absher, Arthur William Hav
ener. John William Hurt, Ray
mond Woodrow Rhodes. Chprle*
W’atson Bry nt. George Harvey
Sale. I#ee Roy Transou. Theodore
Roosevelt Grayson. James Comio
Walker. Jessie Lenord Brown,
Eugene Eller. Floyd Parks. Jos
eph Phillip Stone. Monroe DoU
son, Marshall Vicent Sebastian,
Ranzo Lyon. Claude Jefferson
Sneed. Ora -M; rvin Wyatt. Bjrl
James Anderson, Roosevelt Max
well, Edward Oscar Dancy, James
Lex Meadows, Ulysses Grant
Wagoner, Jomey Absher, Wak#
Orvlll Tinsley. Guy Conrad Jolly,
James Harlle Bililugs. Ben Dan
Basic. Garvie Winfred Adrms,
William King Newton, Ralph Ver
non Bumgarner, Ulyess Grant
Lawrence, Dewey Hampton Wei-
born, Eugene Coleman NlchoL.
Wilkes’ first colort^d volunteer,
Edward Cockerham, left today
for Fort Bragg.
Jenny Gives Birth
To Jack Wednesday
A young jenny—Ida Mae'—at
W. 0. Watkins farm on North
Wilkesboro route two Wednes
day did the unusual and gav*
birth to a flue jack colt. Such
occurrences are considered very
' i
Walbisi wes© **.3J*x^>* m-- I
J. B. Williams to serve as secre- v»o CLUB TO MEET
tary of the meeting. Short talks.
commending the associatlou- fori wilkesboro Womans club will
its continued growth and ‘Pfo-'meet tonight at the home of Mrs.
gresB were made by J. M. Ander- "j# Long with Mrs. C. T,
V..V* /'* U«v VkKol'yl T). _ a ^ 1
aon, Julius C. Hubbard, W. D. |j(jy|r]jton and Mrs. —.
Moss, John E. Justice. Jr., 8. V. ^gg^jdate hosteases. rfrs-
^mlinson, R. G. Finley, J. H. chalfman of the art
itector and Mr, Walter.
B. Pharr
L. '
Dula, chalfmsh of the arfdeptor^^
menf,, will be 1# charge «f Ute
'“.U: >-«"»• ''
ssift toteUng f879,769.72. rtpr^
##fitiog'sn Ihcreaae of $62,175.83
U. D. C, TO _
V711kea Valley OMWs
AMMrmiort Of the sec- of th* United
waiA «iTM * Confederacy will
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