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^ ll^lew Manila Carta’
UiRdon, March 12. — Prime
CharchUl, roicing the
»ih1 reimectful apprecl-
9t Britain, told the United
SBBtea'War the British aid bill
•dModltated a “new magna carta
lii^ttmenl'of generous and
tet atateeaUmship.”
_^T1» house ot commons was
^Vp^ilPg'Bewiding board and
tgliiiid bursts of cheering in-
terrtep^d his statement. A United
SlMee aMlStarr mission of eight
niaKonned''men—the only persons
present except hoase members—
looked on from the gallery.
Timed with Churchill’s speech
...AS the disclosure that Britain
tihHild train her propaganda wea-1
pons full Mast on axis and nazl.;
occupied terrl'.orlee to tell the I
people of the aid bill’s passage |
and "the decisive significance this
must be in the war.’’
“It Is the kind of news that
even the most gestapo-ridden
country cannot keep from perco
lating through the mass of its
citizens.’’ authoritative Press As
sociation’s lobby correspondent
said. “And when their morale is
as low a.s it is today, for example
■r^'ln Italy, the tidings should have
* a shattering effect, especially
when the people recall how
America put the finishina touch
es to the last war.’’
For miitual advils
do your bvj^biF'T
Vl^ilkesbonv^O;
trading eoM^i
western North
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^'NOETH WBLKBSBOEO. N. C„THURSDAY, MABCH li, 1941 |1.60 In the SUte — $2.00
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JW^atc^ul Waiting Off Dutch East Irises
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k
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If 41
hUopperTiiftda^
iVould Allow Sheriff to Place
Taa'Advenrtiaementa; Raise
Pay of Election Oficials
Delayed Inai
New Type Artillery
; Barrage Greets Nazis
London, M: rch 12.—Tne thun
derous rumble ot an artillery
li - barrage different from anything
previously heard in London indi-
( '1} cated some new development in
V- anti-aircraft defense tonight as {
.t German bombers attacked the
^itel and many widely separat-1
m districts.
The midland.?, the LMerseyside, j
East Anglia, and' southwest and
goutheast England also were |
aided
The Dutch East Indies, eyed greedily by Japan, is the new danger-spot in the Far East. When Holland
fell, Dutch warships went to protect these coir .lies. Upper picture shows the fleet and air fleet at Sonrabaja,
naval base in Java. Below, (left) two subs of the Netherlands navy on patrol, and, (right) the first group
of American-built planes of the East Indies air force on guard.
Home Guard Here [Story Introduces Bill To
Will Have First
Drill On Monday
Few Vacancies Yet In Or
ganization of Home Guard
Company In ThU City
I ■ Mature of the defensive fire j
Harry Pearson, captain of the
uagd companj
Repeal Commissioner
Districting Act Of 1939
House Gets Bill
i^I-alrcratt guns,
'a The alarms came earlier than
ea the two nights as the
raiders roared over Dover strait
on a cold easterly wind and with
bright moonlight to light the
heavy- seas below.
One raider was reported shot
Uown on the Surrey - Sussex
boundary.
> On the offensive side, the Brit-
lah air ministry announced that
j^yards and do‘ks- at the huge
aan naval base of Kiel and at
dMrby Bremerhaveii were bomb
ed “successfniiy’* Tuesday nt.ght
by the R. A. F.
Big Italian Attacks
Repulsed by Greeks;
Mussolini At Front
Athens. Oreece. March 12.—
Italian counterattacks a.dd by a
Greek ’government spokesman to
hV«k-h®«“ ordered by Premier
. Musaolini himself—the hft-v.est
W the Albanian war—have been
sina^hed with enormous fascist
Greek informants report-
®fVom the front today.
J^The Italians struck at six
pbtota along the line, with the
greatest forces thrown into such
■ah action since the wrr began.
:and were everywhere thrown
hSck. Greek dispatches said, add
ing that the Greeks were in fact
able to seize new positions in the
heights uorthwest of Tepeleni.
Information that it was the
doca himself wh6 sent his army '
Ib^ard was attributed by the
spokesman to captured
r. IfUiaii soldiers.
rK-JTkWf reported, too, the spokes-
nr^iT^ded. that Mussolini hod
ag| next Saturday as the deadline
fcr hlA generals to ‘'
thin*.”
“do some-
KS«h’"lT,*(at the city
hall. ‘ *
Enlistments have been coming
in very well. O-ptaln Pearson
said, but there renv;,,ins a few
vacancies for some good men in
order to bring the company up
to authorized strength of fifty.
He will be at the city hall on
Fridi.iy afternoon, four to eight
o'cIo-k. to receive additional ap
plications for enlistment. |
The men will receive basic
training pending the j rrival of
equipment, ‘Captain Pearson said.
Equipment, including arms, will
be furni. bed by the federal gov
ernment. except unifortns. which
will be furnished by the stale.
I’niforms will be ii det grey in
color.
Other officers of the company
here, which will tie an infantry
company, are First Ideutenant
M-flcolm L. Wyatt and Second
Lieutenant John Wells. They are-
former officers in the National
Guard. Capbain Pearson has six
years of experience in the U. S.
Marine corps, leaving the service
seven years ago with the rank
of sergeant.
‘Far East’ Subject
Of Kiwanis Speech
Dr. J. C. Stoke* Delivers In
teresting Message To
Club Here Friday
New Chair Bought
For Judge’s Bench
In
Wlkes court hhlsi week dirwted
Sheriff Doughton to,find a new
chair for the judge’s tench.
\ new chair was brought In
and Judge Phillips issued an or
der tor the commissioners to pay
to the furniture company from
which it was purchased the sum
of $84.97, which was' the pur-
chfse price.
In his order the judge .said
that the old chair was “inade
quate and dangerous.” After the
!iew chair was delivered to the
courtroom the old one was offer
ed to Solicitor Avalon R. Hall to
use at his desk hut he declined,
sayin.g he believed the one he wrs
using was more comfortable.
iSeniitor Harry Miller, of Alex
ander county, on Tuesday intro
duced two Wilkes county bills In
the state legislature,
f Senate bill number 323 Intro
duced by Senator Miller would
raise the pay of election registr- J
ars in Wilkes to five dollars per j
day and that of election judges' ^
to four dollars per day. In iiddi-,
tion each would receive mileage!
to and from ?ny meetings called
by the election board.
I Senate bill number 324 would
>ive the sheriff of Wilkes county
power to place tax advertising
and would direct the county
co.mniissioners to pay bill for
same.
I Copies of the bills follow:
I “A bill to be entitled t: n act
I .Authorizing and Directing the
County Commissioners of Wilkes
County to make certain pcyments
to Election Officials of Wilkes
County.
I "ThP General A.ssemhly of
North Carolina do enact:
“Section 1. That the County
Commissioners ot Wilkes County
are authorized and directed to
,pav to the registmrs and judges
' of elections of Wilkes Couinty the
sum ot five dollrrs ($5.00) per
day to the registrars, and the
sum of four dollar.? ($4.00) per
day to the judges, for such days
as are spent by these officials In
making returns of the results of
the primaries or elections tor
their reepectlve townships,
lattendlog mwtinip called by the
Farrest C, Donnell was inanf-
urated Missouri’s fortieth governor
after a six weeks’ delay because of
contested election. He is the first Be-
pnbllcan governor to crack the His-
Bonrl Capitol’s Democratic ranks
since the Roosevelt landslide in 1932.
:Thls picture shows him at the In-
angnral in Jefferson City, Mo., with
iCol. Branch Rickey, owner of the
St. Lonis Cardinals. Left: Governor
Forrest Donnell, and (right) CoL
Rickey.
Wilkes Board Of
bdustrial Council
Assembles Data
^e We
\sk Repeal Of Bill Introduc
ed Two Year* Ago By
Rep. Woodhouse
Dr. J. C. Stokes, pastor of Wil-
kesHoro and I’nion Methodist
churches, delivered a most inter
esting address Friday noon be
fore the North Wilkesboro Ki
wanis club. His subject was "The
and his talk contained
, Far Etst
^ong the prisoners taken yes- much information of a revealing
AM.r this official informant i nature.
were blackshirt officers who I Henry Landon was program
thht Mussolini had been in chair.nan tor the day. Dr. J. c.
central sector,
«officers were
l^d as saying, was to bolster
I'STmorale and prMtige of h.s
I' jUQops. and he declared to his
IS^ry leaders that he was leav-
T^SftStflrday and that they must
I m sotuething before he
ll^^J^fascist counter thrusts, be-
* iTSwterday in forte, suggested
Barnett Dies
^^was rZ^ed here today
^leath of Gaither Barnett,
of the Mt. Zion commun-
^ 4tod last
ent hosplhaf at
in the
Johnson
Canipe. of Boone, was a guest of
Dr. John W. Kincheloe, Jr., and
Miss Elsie Nichols tvHS at the
pirno in the absence of Miss
Lois Scroggs, club piaiust.
Attendance at the meeting was
somewhat curtailed, due to the
fact that several from this city
attended the inter-clnb meeting
at Salisbury, where Mark Smith,
of Georgii.i. Kiwanis Intenirtional
president, delivered an address.
Those going from herejjere Pre-
Ident J. B. Carter and Mrs. Cart
er, Mias Lois Scroggs. W. E.
Jones, Genio Cardwell. James R.
McCartney, Paul S. Cragan.^and
Robert S. Gibbs, Jr.
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Episcopal Service
Vesper service w|U be held at
•S " m BuSw ««*“*-
Hurt Absher Is
Convicted Today
On M’jrder Charge
Second Degree Verdict Re
turned By Jury In Homi
cide Case Here Today
.Tiny in Wilkes court this aft
ernoon returned a verdict of mur
der in the second degree in the
case of Hort Absher, who wi.is
tried for the death of Leonard
Lankford.
The jury received the crse at
10:30 a. m. and deliberated ove.'
two hours. The state had not
asked a verdict of first degree
murder.
Ed Lyalls. loo.il taxi driver,
submitted a plea in Wilkes court
Wednesday to Involuntary man
slaughter and was placed on pro
bation by Judge F. Donald Phil
lips.
Lyalls was indicted for the
death of C. O. Bumgiarner. local
merchant and trucker, on high
way 421 a short distance west of
this city last fall. Wltnes.=es at
the coroner’s Inquest said that
I>yalls car was speeding when it
hit Bumgarner, who wws pushing
a hand truck on the pavement.
The Lyalls case was Uiken up
in the interim between argument
of counsel and ch’arge to the jury
in the case of Hort Athher, who
was charged with the knife slay
ing of Leonard Lankford three
miles west of this city last Sep
tember.
The state asked a verdict of
second degree murder or man
slaughter. Witnesses said that
brothers of the slain young man
were trying to remove Absher,
)vho was drunk, from tlieir home
when he stabbed Leonard Lank
ford in the neck. He died several
4jys later from Infection which
set up in the wound.
After disposing of- the Lyalls
case Judge Phillips deferred
ckarge to the Jury In the Abeher
, , OB .pa»6' "■
Wilkes Representative T. E.
Story introduced a hill in the
legislature Tuesday which would
repeal the law dividing Wilkes
into three districts for nomina
tion end election of county com-
uiis.'-ioners.
The mea.iiire introduced by
Representative Story would abol
ish districts for election ot com
missioners and the board of
three mejuhers would -be elected
by co:;iity-wide vote.
The districting bill was intro
duced in the legisU.iture two years
ago liy Representative Wood-
house. of Yadkin county, and was
pa-sed over protest of Wilkes
Representative D. C. Sebastian.
That law divided the county
into three districts, two of which
normally cast small Democratic
majorities and one with a large
Republican majority.
In the November, 1940. elec
tion two districts elected Demo-
cr; lie candidates bj small ma
jorities but C. E. Lenderman
choose not to serve on the board,
creating a vacancy which was
filled l)y Clerk of Court C. C.
Hayes, who appointed Max Fo.^t-
er Republican, and the board
continued with a majority of Re-
publicrns.
If the bill introduced Tuesday
by Representative Story becomes
law the method of nomination
the State Board of Blootlbna,«
“Sec 2 The County CotnihlA-
Bioners' are further to
pav to the registrars and JudgM
mileage at the mte of five cents
(5c) per mile for such distances
as they travel from their home
in making such returns, or in at
tending such meetings.
“Sec 3-. The County Com-mls-
.iloners’ of Wilkes County are fur-
ther directed to pay to each reg
istrar and judge of the elections
in Wilkes County the sum of five
dollars ($5.00) per day
registmrs and four dollar
($4 00) per day for the judgM
for each day that either or both
of these officials spent in biing-
ing in the returns of the elections
or primaries, or in attending a
meeting called by the Chairman
of the Wilkes County Board ot
Elections, or the Chairman of t e
SOate Board of Election.-- during
the year one thousand nine hun-
dred fnd forty.
“Sec 4 The County Commis
sioners' are further directed to
pay each registrar and judge ve
cents (50 per mile mileage for
the distances each traveled m
attending mid meetings or in
bringing in said returns.
"Sec. All laws end clauses
of law.9 ^ conflict with this Act
are herd!?? repealed.
«iftc 4 This Act shall he in
full foite'and effect from and
after Jt»'ratification.”
I ■
Entlti|A *’■" Act
Refetti^'to the Sales oTOx Liens
,AlU to be
on ROTl Property For Del^
Taxes, in Wilkes CopnttF
The Gducral Assembly
luent
Survey of Industrial Advan
tages Forwarded For
,Bf. AaBkoride* ’
Wike» bounty board of the
Wsatem North Carolina Industri
al Council has prepared and for
warded dsta concerning indus
trial possibilities in Wilkes coun
ty to Fred M. Allen, Jr., of Hen-
derBonville, and to others who
may use the information to ad
vantage, John R. Prevette, chair
man of the Wilkes board of the
council, said today.
Eight briefs, which contain a
comprehensive survey of indus-
tri,-! advantages', were prepared
and forwarded to: the Depart
ment of Conservation and De
velopment: Department of Com
merce, Washington, D. C.; plann
ing board ot the War Department,
Washington. D. €.; eighth dis
trict Representative W. O. Bur-
,e.in: ninth district Representative
R. L. Doughton. With each survey
wrs also sent a copy of the North
M’ilkesboro bookltt issued last
summer.
After all information is gather
ed concerning all the we-i-tern
North Carolina counties r^re-
sented in ' the council district
meetings will be held and one
will be in North Wilkesl.loro. Mr.
Prevette said.
Mr. Prevette said that the oo-
ject of the council is not only to
get defense Industries located in
western North Carolina but to
promote the industrial possibili
ties ot the entire western part of
the .state.
The principal object of the
Wilkes board of the council, he
said, right now is flood control
on the Yadkin, probably in con-
air Sex Here Mi^
Train For Part h
National Defence
Course In First Aid, Horn*
Nursing and Care of Sick
To Begin Monday
M’omen of North Wilkesboro
and adjacent conamunltles are
given an opiportunlty to partial,
pate in national defense by a
class in first aid, home nursing
and care of the sick, which will
beigtn on Monday, March 17.
Paul S. Cragan, superintendent
of North Wilke.siboro schools, said
today that all arrangements have
been made for the class to be
held. Mia? Evelyn Sharpe, voca
tional home economics teacher in
the city schools, will be the in
structor.
Classes, which will be about
one hour each, will begin on
Monday night and be held each
Monday and Thursday night,
7:30 o’clock, until April 3.
All the women’s civic organi
zations of the city ore endorsing
and backing the class, Supt. Cra
gan said, and hope that many will
avail themselmes of the oippor-
tunity to become better prepared
to .serve In case of emergency and
do their part in defense of the
nation.
Any women or girl not in
school is eligible to enroll in
the class and no charge will ho
made.
Among the subjects to be taken
up in the course are: practical
aids and appliances used in car
ing for sick; proper care of sick
room; preparation and service of
food; common sense methods of
preventing aickneas. and acci
dent:, hoiKaiia>.m«^U«te ebest-
It siionld be used.
Classes will be held in the
home economics rooms of the
high school building and all who
are interested and who possibly
can are urged to be present at the
opening session Monday night.
Report Is Made On
Railroad Spur
Survey In City
Committee Does Not Rec
ommend Immediate Con
struction Of Route
G. W. Adam.?, general manager
of the Southern Railway .:om-
pany and the compiny’s duel En
gineer Ashiiry. of Charlotte, met
here this week with the commit
tee i ppointed to seek location for
a spur railroad track above the
Yadkin’s flood level, and with the
city commissioners to report on
surveys made.
The company’s representative*
■said that three surveys had been
made, one of which wa.s. impos
sible because of excessive grade,
another impractical because of
excessive cost and the third,
which could be constructed.
The engineers submitted blue
prints of the surveys. After all
three were considered the com
mittee did not recommend im
mediate construction of either
and the concensaw of opinion ex-
the future
of
law the meinou •••“ puaef
and election of commissioners by North s
county-wide vote will be restored
for the county.
F.DXr^t
Wilkes Booklet
A Leather Bound Copy Of
Booklet Here Is Forward
ed To President
President Franklin D. Roose
velt will receive a copy of the
publicity booklet published here
last summer on North Wllkes-
boro and Wilkes county, John R.
Prevette, chairman of the Wilkes
board of the Western North Caro
lina Industrial Council, said here
today.
A copy of the booklet has been
bound in leather and the name
“Franklin Delano Roosevelt’’ was
inscribed on the cover In gold
letters
■Section 1. That the s^t^riff of
Wilkes County is ^^'’^Yecr' he
with the authority to select the
newspaper said county In
which the sales of tax liens
real property for failure to pay
taxes shall be advertised.
“Sec. 2'. That the Board of
County Commissioners of Wilkes
County, upon ascertainment by
the sheriff of the cost of such ad
vertisement. he. and it
directed to pay in full, out of th
genenal fund of Wllk^ County.
the cost ot such advertt?ement di
rect to the newspaper advertis
ing the same. Immediately upon
the completion of such advert.se-
''’'^^Sec. 3. Thrt all laws and
clauses of laws' in conflict with
this Act are hereby repealed
„„ , .pressed was that
nection with a defense industries j and progress ot North
plant. The organization will ope-, ^jj|jegj,oro industrially depends
rate permanently, Mr. Prevette qpqh construction of a flood con-
said, in a continual effort to pro- on the Yadkin river,
mote industrial progress of North {ifgt survey made was up
Wilkesboro and Wilkes county. ^j,g stream just east of the bluff
With Mr. Prevette on the at the Lower Yadkin bridge here
Wilkes board of the council are and it was found that the grade
R T McNlel mayor of North would be excessive. Another was
Wilkesboro, Attorney W, H. Me- made a distance of about two
Flwee Sheriff C. T. Doughton, S. miles to the Fred Finley farm
V. Tomlinson and W.. P. Kelly as cost was
clerk L L. Scott, of West Jeffer- ,ing estimated at
.on. is district chairman. j The third survey, wh ch
'engineers said was possible,
from the main truck near
intersection of highway 268
'trance with Main street in
Snow Falling b
This City Today
After escaping all snows so 6ir
this winter, North Wilkesboro is
getting a blanket of white today.
18 Acv ■ Snow began falling ab^t
“Sec. 4. That this Act shall bejjp.go n,. and at Journal-Pa
in full force and effect from and
after its ratification.”
I The Raleigh Nows and Oleerv
1 „„ - =—'er on Wedneiday morning gave
Mr. Prevette said he the following account of Intro
duction of the bills:
“Wilkes County bills were in
troduced by Democratic Senator
Harry MUl»r Alexander Coun-
ty, wko.iRld they were reaueeted
United. Stated leedliiR tmiporter-by ShbrtU .T-
■the
hoped the president could find
Information te the booklet which
would be useful in the defense
program. ■
trlot press time this afternoon
was still fplllng rapidly. However,
the temperature here todaT^-je-
malned above freezing snd little
snow remained on the ground.
Reports from other parts of
Wilkes said the snow was not
melting and had reached a depth
of one Inch 'by three p. m.
IMo-Oreek p«ace under
id ieea ip
the
was
the
en-
the
erst end of the city end up the
stream immediately east of the
school property. Engineers said
the grade would be 3.2 per cent
and with a nine per cent curve.
Increasing the grade the equiva
lent of 3.6. The Southern Railway
company would supervise con
struction and would service the
line if the city would put up cost
of construction end maintenance
the committee was told.
Blue prints and other data on
the surveys was filed for futpre
reference and the eoasmlttee and »
commlsskmers agreed that
effort should be made to s^nre
constractlon of a flood;- control
tiam on the Yadkin »«o»d WU-
(Contlhued on )mhm