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Escpacted Soon
i —Omaany has al-
^1. -*S4y OM>»ed aa advaace force of
»SO,000 troQiMi Into Bulgaria and
“ay he “oaly a KnUar of days”
a big Nasi army i>U8hes''
rdt according,to unoon-
, diplomatic reports reach-
past last night,
past.,73 t^rs at least
^ Berman tmneports—
to Iransport an estimated
> Slbtdlera—have flown over
1=.-:^- Al^t 100 passed over the
;^W0^PBgarlan capital ye^te r d a y,
Meedlng on into the Balkans.
'i: ^^iAaked to send further details
aerial movements Peters
. TSBlled that “I am told that here-
dftor I will not be allowed to dis-
> enss such movements at all.’’)
A, Information to Belgrade from
JIA Sofia said that Bulgarian Pre-
noler Bogdan Filoff, speiaking be-
tore leaders of the opposition in
l»arliament. had confirmed that
Oerman technicians were in con
trol of Bulgaria’s' air fields “in
the mutUBl Interests of Germany
and Bulgaria.”
Filoff’s statement, it the report
•were true, confirmed the accusa
tion—and warning—of British
Prime Minister Winston Church-
111 that the “advance tentacles”
of the German army and air force
•already had penetrated into Bul
garia.
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VOL. XXXin, No. 93
rilkes Indiyidnak
Receive$422^1.69
Of Social Security
Figures Of Social Security
Operation Through De
cember Are Released
Gerinan and Italian Prisohere of War^,
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fen Selfected For
Thursday, Feh. 20l
Dr. Kinchelofe Will
Preach Here Sunday
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Britain To Have 4
Million Under Arms
London.—Britain dipped deep
Into her manpower reserve last
night, disclosing vouths 19 years
o^ will be called for military
bOrvlce almost immediately, and
praseed the pre-spring air offen-
elve against industrial Germany
with waves of bombers.
In the House of Ixtrds. Lord
Moyne, the government leader
and new colonial secretary, di.s-
closed the imminent call-up for
19-year-olds. Oldsters of 3" to
VP40 will he summoned soon after
ward. he said, to swell the 4.000,-
■OOO men Britain alreidy ha.« un-
der arms for the defensive—and
•offensive—campaigns tO come.
^(^Iro, Egypt. — British rein
forcements were reported pound-
■fng down the northe’‘n coastal
plain of the Italian East .\frican
Colony of Eritrea yesterday for
an assault on the btesieged rail
center of Cheren.
Forces advancing southward
from the .Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
now are well past the captured
Red Sea port of Mersa Taclai and
are within 120 miles of Ma.ssaua.
f ^i^chief Eritrean seaport. Tlie mid
dle east coininand announce1
the.se troops Tuesday captured
Elgena, inlai.d town 2T) miles
southwest of .Mersii Taclai and
30 miles south of the Sudan bor
der.
Gwyn RhoadesFound
Dead In Bed at Home
NearCity Wednesday
Ollie Gwyn Rhoades. .tI. was
found dead in his bed Wednes
day morning at his home nerr
this city. He .aid Mrs. Rhoades
had both I'een ill with flu for
several days but bis condition
t vas not considered serious. Coro
ner I. M. Myers .••aid death was
apparently due to flu and compli
cations. probbbly heart disease.
Funeral service will be held
Friday. 11 a. ra., at Baptist Home
church north of this city,
Surviving Mr. Rhodes are his
widow. Mrs. Lorene Rhoades, and
four sisters: .Mrs. Charles Shu
mate. North Wilkesboro route
one: Mrs. Myra Tinsley. Phebus,
Va.; Mrs. L. C. Elledge, Win-
Bton-Salera; Mrs. L. D. Absher,
■Korth W’ilkesboro route one.
Raleigh.—Operation of four
major divisions of the Social Se
curity Act’s ten divisions has re
sulted in the distribution of $34,-
902.030.74 to IndlviduPls in
North Carolina through Decem
ber, 1940, it is shown in figures
released by Charles G. Powell,
Chairman of the N. C. Unemploy
ment Compensation Commission.
'These four major divisions, in
cluding Unempioymont Compen
sation, Old Age Assistance, -Aid to
Dependent Children and Aid to
the Blind, account for about 82
per cent of the amount distribut
ed through the ten Social Secur
ity program divisions to the end
of the year. The other six divis
ions are the five “services,’’ in
cluding Maternal and Child
Health, Crippled Children. Child
Welfare, Vocational Rehabilita
tion and Public Health services,
and Old Age and Survivors Insur
ance. ■which is destined through
the years' to become one of the
more important of the five major
divisions.
Distribution of funds in North
Carolina through the four divis
ions in three years for Unemploy
ment Compensation and 3 1-2
years for the other three have
been as follows: Unemployment
Compensation, $16,792,820.20;
Old -Age Assistance, $12,168,-
.>06.71: Aid to Dependent Chil
dren. $4.79.5,909.19, and Aid to
the Blind. $1..'44,794.64.
Broken down by sources. ttiL
$34,902,030.74 was turnished,
$16,792,820.20 or $48.11 per
cent, by North Carolina employ
ers: $8,558,164,43. or 24.52 per
_ cent by the Federal Government: ^ _
or M4§L-«fc.«*.5!'4*PdV
V^neren „{ .^orth CrrolTna:
$4,529,362.29. or 12.98 per cent,
by the 100 counties of the State.
The uneiii'Ploviuent figures do
not include $378,040.59 paid to
former N. C. re'ideiits, with wage
credits in the Si. ie. who receiv
ed benefits while living in other
states.
This information is supplied b>
the Public As^istauce Divisions
of the State Board of Chanties
and i’ul.lie Welfare, the State
Commission for the Blind and
the Research riid Statistics Di
vision of the tree, Mr. Powell
said.
Wilkes county individuals have
received $422,331.69 from these
funds throiign December. 1940,
divided as rolloA's: Old Age As-
sWaiice. $156,530: Cnemploy-
meia compensation, $193,661.81:
Aid to Dependent Children, $ •.-
623: Aid to the Blind, $13-
516.88.
Total funds distributed through
four divisions of Social Seemnty
act in counties adjoining Wilkes
for the period were as follows:
Alexander, $150,797.50; A1 egh-
anv, $63,480.90; Ashe. $_H4.-
TT'Wo' Caldwell. $411,97d.61 ,
,r;deli; $582,422.81: Surry.
$496,060.16; Watcuga. $98,240.-
715; Yadkin, $99,574.15.
Dr. John W. Kincheloe, Jr.,
newly elected pia&tor of the First
Baptist church in North Wilkes
boro, arrived here today and will
ttiumime hls duties as rpastor Sun-
®»y. February 16.
br. Kincheloe comes to this
city highly recommended end
with a iiTpIendld background of
training ahd experience in the
ministry. For the past six years
he bias been pastor of two
churches at Emporia/ Va.
Niiieteen To Leave
On Feb. 20th For
Year OFTrainiii^
Thirteen WiU Be Volunteer*
And Six WiR Be Con
scripts From Wilkes
186 Farm Checks
Are Given Out
Latest Payments Distributed
Brings Total So Far For
Year To $12,000
A hnnirh the censor docs not reveal the city, the name on the train verifies the fact that it is in Canada,
that these German prisoners (left) are being marched to their train from the prison ship at an east coasi Government vouchers numbe -
p.,1. Rl,bl: some .1 Ih. .f 1MI~ « Ihe Or«> -arri.,, .ad .b.U h,, j? „J"airtng tte
th, .«d i.,te ^ IS" ~".t "hr»r,ic. or f..
Expecting Large
Attendance At
Poultry School
R.A.F. Pays Call
Short Course For Poultry-
men To Be Held Monday
At The Courthouse
Pound Down
Plans are being made to ac- :
comodate a large number of
poiiltrymen at the poultry short i
course to be held at the county
courthouse in Wilkesbbro o n
Monday. Februrry 17, J. B.
Snipes, Wilkes farm agent, said ,
Poultry specialists from State
College and the extension service
will discii.3s several topics which
should be of vital Intere.st to eve
ry poiiltryman and in considera
tion of the fact thrjt Wilkes if
one of the leading poultry coun
ties in the state and that adjoin
ing counties also produce, large
ciiiantities of poultry and eggs
for market, there should be a
large attendance at the meeting,
the oounty agent srid.
The course will ibe one of sev
eral being conducted in the state
and is for poiiltrymen oi Wilke.3
and all adjoining counties—Yad
kin, Surry. Alleghany, Ashe, Wa
tauga, Caldwell. Alexander and
Iredell.
The dry’s program will open
at ten a. ni. C. F. Parrish, exten
sion poultry specialist, will dis
cuss “Mistakes Made Last Year
and How to Avoid Them This
Year.’’
C. J. fllaupin’s topi- will be
“Performance Imp r o v e m e ii t
Through Breeding.”
Dr. Roy Dearstyne, head of
W 17 !• ; -Wilkes county agent and dlst.l
jlfif 1Y100S6 1 roue,'billed to farmers participating in
® the agricultural conservation pro
is To Be Held On
Saturday, Sunday
Members Of Legion Division
Of Order From Four
States To Gather
I .Midwinter conference of I.e-
j.gion of the Moose will be held
in North Wilkesboro on Saturday
aud Sunday, February 15 and 16.
It is expected that there will
be a large attendance of Legion-
nal’pes of the Moose, which is the
second degrw-of the order, from
lodges in the Oarolinas, Tennes
see and Virginia.
Headquarters will be ut Hotel
. , . ji u AA Wilkes, where registration will
A rare picture, ^ssed by ‘he Ger- Saturdny afternoon,
man censors, showing some of U,e ^ parade
extensive damage caused by raiding mere
planes of the EAF on the residential l«te Saturday
section of Wurttemberg, Germany. ,'>y a dance unYll m ^
1 Woman 8 club house on Tiogdon
County Library
Drive To Begin
Voluntary Membership Con
tributions Asked For
Support Of Library
The Wilkes County Lilirary As
sociation starts its annual mem
bership drive on .Monday, Febru
ary 17. This campaign for funds
is scheduled to run through the
entire week of the I7th.
With little money, a few books.
but with an enthusiastic groiup of
1/1. iwj .A. workers, the Library wrs organ-
the poultry department of Stfte 1927. In the four years
College, will speak concerning the
re-earch program at State Col-
T. r. Brown will have Eggs
and Markets as his subject and
it is expected that he will deal
principally with gniding rnd
marketing of eggs for top market
prices.
In connection with the school
Carolina Trio On
Air 13 Weeks Over
, CUUI1CI.I.H... en tn isaa was
Hickory station show witli several j^pe^ations on account of lack of
prizes offered for best dozen ^his Bookmobile conb/ct-
of its exLtence. the Library has
gained a reputation, met Its re
quirements. and has more than
doubled its capacity. Now more
demands are 'being put on the or
ganization end in order to con
tinue stepping forward, more
money is needed.
The Bookmobile which operat
ed in 1939 was forced to cease
Fire And Water
Gut Gaddy Motor
Company Building
starts When Gasoline FYom Tank
Catches On Fire
Fire and water gutted the
Gaddy Motor Company building
on Tenth Street this afternoon.
The blaze started from ga.soliiie
which had leaked from a tank on
one of the automobiles under re-
p*lr on the first floor of the
building.
The blaze spretid rapidly fol
lowing the tank explosion, end
!^dows in the building were
diattered. Two cars and two
* trucks were damaged by the
i? )>Iase. a car and a truck being
nractlcally destroyed. '
Smoak and water did
' e*le damage to the building.
rf the toulldln*
?£tlmate of datnage had not
made as The Journal-Pa-
The Carolina Trio, composed of
three vouiig ladies of the Fail-
plains community nwr here will
go on the a’r over radio station
WHKY. Hickory, on Sunday. Feb-
ruary 16. for the beginning of a
seri^ of 13 weeks programs un
der sponsorship of North W’ilkes
boro firm./.
Their program, to be composed
of gospel and popular songs, will
be heard each Sundry at 12:45
p. m. until one o’clock.
Personnel of the trio are Miss
es Edwina and Frances Elledge.
and Jeanette McGrady.
equlpnient. and other con.
trjot went to press
but the loss
|» «rr^ by Ineurance.
Erecting 3 Houses
On Highway 421
•prizes uiicixjt* IV** lunuB. iiiis
white eggs and best dozen brown those in the county who found
eggs. The first prize wilt be 100 inconvenient to visit the Li-
baliy chicks, the .•=econd 75 baby : gtations were set up in dif
... 1 a i. /mvtaistill? t.4 .3 fViA Drirtlf,
chicks and other prizes consisting
of feeds and other poultry neces
sities.
Tax Penalty Will
Increase After 1st
Penalty On Unpaid County
Taxes Will Be Two Per
Cent After March 1st
Penalty on 'Wilkes county tax- o..c .— - ...j
es which are unpaid after March, ter. surely it
ferent town-rhips and the Book-
mohlle stopped at these places at
given dates. People flocked to
the stations to receive books and
magazines and it was difflciult to
carry enough litenature to com
plete the rounds. The magazines
did not have to be returned and
often they were passed from one
family to mother in a commun
ity until they became bo tattered
and torn they were not readable.
If Individuals in tbe more re
mote sections of Wilkes county
are this hungry for reading mat-
street until midnight
Siindiay’.-i program 'will open
with e fellowship breakfast by
Pilgrims and Fellowships, two
highest degrees of Moose, at Ho
tel Wilkes. At 9:45 all members
will attend Sunday school at the
Methodist church and at 11 o’
clock a large class of candidates
from Lenoir and other lodges will
join the defending circle.
A big banquet will be held at
Hotel Wilkes at one o’clock. The
program there will open by ad
dress' of welcome by Mayor R. T.
McNlel. Follo,wing the banquet
women of the Moose will hold a
.session at Hotel Wilkes under di
rection of the Charlotte chapter,
at which time plans for a wom
en’s chapter here will be disepss-
ed.
A meeting of Legion of the
Moose will be held at the lodge
liall on C street, at which time a
1; rge class of Moose will be ad
vanced to the second degree. Aft-
er the meeting will be a big fro
lic.
Among the principal speaker-
will he the following: Pilgrim,
Charles C. Ricker, herder of
Wenoca legion: Pilgrim Ben Hill
Brown, supreme councillor, of
SpartanUurg. S. C.; Pilgrim Wal
ter L. York, district deputy su-
preme governor, of High Point;
pilgrim Charles A. Kirby, region
al director of Moose in North and
South Carolina, Georgia and
Tennessee.
J. R. Finley, of this city, is
having three seven-room houses
erected on hls property about
three miles west of North Wil
kesboro on highway 4 21. ^— —
The old log bam, a landmark end save the penalty difference,
nef r the highway for many years,'
first will be incre'.sed to two per
cent as prescribed by law.
Attention is called to the fact
that the penalty will double on
taxes not paid on or before the
first day of March arid all who
jCan are urged to pay their taxes
ing public to supply this demand.
The request for more funds is
being made through the schools,
by personal letter and by person
al solioltrUon. Also through the
Home Demonstration Clubs of the
county. However, it will be diffi
cult to contact every person who
is interested in the Library, so
gram.
Checks received during the
week brought total amount of
cash received hy Wilkes farmers
for compliance last year to ap
proximately $12,000. Total earn
ings for the year were about $80,-
000, including lime and other ma.
terials and seeds purchased and
for which pay was deducted from
earnings. However, only a small
per cent of the checks have been
received and others will arrive ut
frequent intervals.
Lawrence Miller, clerk of the
Triple A, said that each farmer
for whom a check is received is
notified by mall on which date
to call fur tits Check •awl that It
is unnecessary to oall for a check
before notification is received by
Both draft boards in Wilkes
have selected men for the Selec
tive Service call to service this
month, it was learned today.
Men from both draft board
areas in Wilkes will leave her*
by bus for Fort Bragg on Feb
ruary 20. The quota for the coun
ty this month is 14 but replac»-
ments of men rejected from th*
last call will swell the number to
19, seven from board area num
ber one with headquarters at
Wilkesboro, and twelve from
board area nupber two, which
has headquarters in the city hall
building here.
Board number one had suffi
cient volunteers from whom to
select the seven and some left
over for another call. The volun
teers from hoard area number
one for the February 20 call are
as follows; James Garvey Huff
man, Wilkesboro route one: Ray
mond Earl Greene, Deep Gap
route one: Bornie Madison Lane,
Pores Knob, F'elix Lunsford, Cy
cle; William Farl Estep, Oak-
woods; Beil Joseph Parrish,
Pores Knob; James Harley Min
ton, Wilkesboro route one.
Board number two has notified
the following that they will go
into training on the 20th; the
first six named are volunteers
and the others are conscripts:
Rufus Hall, Howard Cothren,
Howard Landon Frazier, Law-
Alonzo' Handy, Charlie
Howard Owens, Joseph Gwalt
Owens. .Tames Harvey Holler,
I Ronald Boyd Sturgill, Clinton
„,.or ib-in «AtiRay Smoot, EdW'ard Lee Greg-
a n^eTrL^oVof over $80,000 ior , °ry. Robert WinDeld Church and
a new recuiu u Albert Bentley Parsons,
the county. Commenting on the,
program this year. Mr, Miller! James Haney Holler was the
said there is no reason why conscript who failed to appear
farmers cannot earn .sufficient for the January call. It was later
units this year to make the total learned that he did not receive
8150 000 '« mails until after
^ ’ the date to leave because of
change of address.
Arthur Shook
Taken By Death
Hayes & Haye* Law
Office* Are Moved;
Now On 9th Street
Offices of Hayes & Hayes, well
known local law firm, were mov
ed this week from the second
Funeral service wa'? held at the
residence here Wednesday for
Arthur Shook, member of a wide
ly known family here, who died
Monday afternoon in the govern
ment hospital near Johnson City,
Tenn.
Mr. Shook, a veteran of the
World Mfar, had been a patient
in the hospital during the last
several months. Prior to that
lime he was associated with bus
iness firms here.
He w.TS a son of the late J. W.
Shook, prominent hardware
merchant, and Mr.'S. Shook, who
survives. Also surviving are one
brother, E. A. Shook, and two
sisters. Mrs. Nell Fisher, of Mis
sissippi. and Miss Lucy Shook, of
this city.
Rev. Watt M. Cooper. I resby-
terlan pastor, conducted the fu-
neral .service and burial was in
Greenwood ce>nietery.
Mrs. D. J. Carter’s
Mother Stricken By
Death Wednesday
Mrs. B. I^wis. aged re-sident
of Dunn, died Wednesday eve
ning, seven o’clock, at 'her horn*.
Slip wi's the mother of Mrs. D.
J. Carter, of this city, who had
■been with her since .Monday.
Pneumonia following an attack
of flu wa.s the cause of her
death.
F'’uneral seiwice was held this
afternoon, 3:30 o’clock, at Dunn.
Larkin L. Walsh
Claimed By Death;
Rites Wednesday
has been taken down and built
into three small cow barns hack
of the new houses which are now
under construction.
Pardue Brothers are contrac-
tora for the construeJon work.
1 Marriage License
Only one mariiege license was
issued 'by Register of Deeds C. C.
Sidden during the past week, that
being to J. E. Davis and Mrs.
Nella Hise, both of Boomer.
ed this week from me s.^oo« at Statesville, to
floor of the Northwestern B“”^®^2tor of the Wilkesboro
.bnllding to the second
the Duke Power compeny office chuj. ^
building on Ninth street. -hurch conference in Wilkesboro
The .firm, comp^ed of Atto^ church con^fj^^
neys Kyle and ^ge his decision relative to the call,
an ofr.ee .suite of three la g , graduate of Wake Por-
rooms in the new building, which | „ has a good repu-
was erected recently Itatlon as a minister, speaker and
Kyle Hayes, senior member of tatlon^^s
mher Offices in the new hui.d-'today from l^ders in the Wilkes-
Larkiii L. Walsh, one of Wilkea
county’s oldest citizens, died
Tuesday morning at the home of
his daughter. Mrs. W. A. Jones, in
Wilkesboro, with whom he had
made his home for the past sever
al yeirs.
Mr. Walsh, age 87, was a na
tive of the Elk Creek community.
He retained his good health until
he was stricken ill with flu about
two weeks ago.
' Funeral service was held at Elk
Baptist church Wednesday 2:30
p. m., with Rev. R. I.- Is'')el in
chiirge and assisted by Rev. Mr.
Benfield, of I..enoir.
Surviving are two daughters
and one son. Mrs. W. .'V. Jones,
of Wilkesboro, Mrs. C. R. Trip-
'^t’r>'”nrtheTl7st lett, of Lenoir, and T. A. Walsh,
pastor of the First one Irother,
Alvle Walsh, of Lenoir, 21 grand
children and 14 great-grandchil
dren.
R.CV. Sloan Guy
Called By Church
Wilkesboro Baptists Extend
Call To Assistant Pastor
Statesville Baptist
The Wilke='boro Baptist church
has extended a call to Rev. ^"^.n
Guy, assistai
is interested in the Library, so | Other otr ces in i j^^^rth boro Baptist church.
whether solicited or not. Please ' ing. tn addition to th^ of Nortn
send your membership fee or do- ‘ Wllkeeboro b«neh of t^e Duke
r 7a"s2«oT"“ s Sro" s:::
'•’'■“'■y Association. Carolina SUU Bmployment
Mr. J. D. Get^ Is lU with an sOCT^ fjg the: Farm Seourlty
aUack of pacmiFteilpi^
■Vesper service will be held at
St Paul’s Episcopal church Sun
day afternoon, February 16th. at
flour to’clock. Friends and 'vtai-
are Invited to attend. i
Laws Speaker At
Alamance Dinner
R. Don Laws, of MoravlaB.
Fails, editor of the nationally
known Yellow Jacket, was the
principal speaker at a Lincoln
Day dinner in Burlington Monday
night. The dinner was held under
sponsorship of the Young Remfh-
llcans club of Alamance ’ county
and was -wrtl attended. Mr. Inure
address wae enthneUetloally
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