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ntish Place Many
'tvxiions In Greece;
i^y Ailadk G«rmane
elsrade, ’ Yvcoslarta, IBp'roh
3rM»in' poar«d mor« inech-
i troolM Into * tEe BniVan
^Miaa today as the' teetinr in.
tMMod ta dtptoma'tlc quarters
'.1m|« vtbat cKUMBt nast hesita-
; tkur to attack Greece at once
te due to anxiety over
ausia.
,ne naais, these quarters said,
Mptoar be etudytng tbe peril to
titotr exivUded communications
llae from sorlet Russia on one
^e and Irom Yugoetavl?, still
unyielding to axis preseure, on
' the other.
IMplematlc messages said sn-
i other British mechanised division
t*- was dlseanharkln* at the Greek
mainland ports of Piraeus and
Volos.
Authoritative sources aald yes
terday that almost 100,000 Brit
ish troops—vanguard' of a force
of 300,000—already had teen
landed in Greece with alf equip
ment necessary for war, includ
ing flame-throwers, tanks and
mechanized equipment.
British observers in London
said that the zero hour is near in
the Balkans and that British is
ready to give Greece all-out sup
port in meeting an expected Ger-
man thrust.
Bifif Offensive Under
II Duce’s Direction
Turned To Massacre
•r;h
:i:s"-POR» over Ttiaetr
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For inatusl.>lv»ms|l g
your biiyhig iu Ntrtmr
5; Wilkesboifl^ the J||pi*Jai
tradifiir oPlRortlV’
western
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DdeBdanUlaTwo
Mivder Cam Get
Sentences Friday
Hort Absher Geti iO to 16
Years; ;Ed Sbew, Ire Wil
liams Get Eitifat to Ten
Judge F. lX>nald Phillips in
Wilkes court Friday passed sen
tence on defendants in two cases
convicted of second degree ihur-
der.
Hort Absher, who was convict
ed Thursday for the knife slaying
of Leonard Lankford at the Lank
ford home three miles west of
here in September, was given 10
to 15 years in the penltentlf ry.
Eugene Trivette, counsel for Ab
sher, gave notice of appeal to the
supreme court.
On Friday the Jury convicted
EM Shew. Ira Willirms and Mutt
Shew, three whites of the Call
community, of second degree
murder for the death of Sinclair
Adams, local negro, a few months
ago. Ed Shew and Williams were
sentenced to eight to ten years in
the penitentiary and Judge Phil
lips set the verdict against Mutt
Shew aside. He entered a man
slaughter plea and was sentenced
to the county home for four
months.
According to the evidence MuU
negro’s
of the
Athens. March 16.—-■Vt least
50,000 Italian soldiers in a f^ist ^ -
army of 120M00 were thrown o« She ^
of action and * «^ult which cau.sed the ne
personaUj - dirw - at death from concussion
aimed to smash the GreeKs
all costs -rea! 1 Court adjourned Friday after-
f own men bitterly called a rea‘|
maseacre.” authoritative Greek | n°on-
sources declared tonight.
The official Greek spokesman
asserted that Italkin prisoners
said the fascists were "turnlous
because the seven-day crffensive
in the Tepeleni sector was crush
ed at terrific low».
.hUMplf has gone
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I Industrial Arts,
Defense Classes
Countv Agent J. B. Snipes is shown he®,
fords which five children in the family of W. R. Hutchison at Ab-
shers have as their 4-H club projects this year year three «f
the children realized almost »400 Jrom thr^ baby beeves. The chil
dren plan to show five calves at the fairs this fall. (Photo by uwigni
Nichols).
Hutchk^Boys and Girl Making
Progress With 4-H Beef Projects;
Will Show Five At Fairs Next Fall
Four boys and one girl of the pound on the hoof. If they do thnt
family of W. K. Hutchison, farm- well this year, and they plan to
er of the Abshers community, ore do better, they will make a neat
making progress'on the 4-H club sum of money.
projects this year
This progress con.^ists of five
kaby beeves, some of which are
Mr. Hutchison is fully as much
interested in the calves as are hts
children. While they ere in school
napy »v»inv —- j - —«
already nearing the 500 pounds he watches after them and see to
nd bis authority shaken,’' the
w radio said in a broadcast
beard in New York by CBS. The
radio also laid the Italians suf-
fared “terrible losses. 1
A Greek army inferior in num-
.bers to the fascists
[burled them tack and
i thrusts had dwindled almost to
[local actions, the Greeks said.
Jitler Declares Aid
From Outside Can t
Save Great Britain
-edinM AffMit and State Su
pervisor Soend Afternoon
With Classes Here
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Berlin. March 16. Adolf Hit
ler declared today that no amount
of UddStional outside help foi
Britain can wrest final victory
from the r.xis.
Germany’s arm^'d forces, he
«Ud in a memorial day speech m
♦he historic Zeughaus, or army
»useu.m. will take the lead d.ir-
ing the spring and summer from
•the Ibdians. who bore the bnmt
through the winter, in wearing
■Britain down ?nd winmns
’mate victory.
Pacing some 150 field marsh
als. generals, admirals, higher
Staff officers and about 100 c.ab-
Inet members. relch leaders,
gHulelters, blackshirt and brown-
shirt chiefs and party btgwig.s^
the fuehrer spoke not in his usual
fervent manner, of a man trying
tTwin the German people over
to his viewpoint. Instead he spoke
catmlv. almost monotonously
as though he were once again
restating what his thinking is
^ accustomed to-Alerman vtc-
Hitler grasped both sides of the
replug desk and-wlth one ex-
So*-changed ’poeltion only
S turn the pages of bis manu-
That exception was when, w^th
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■“'n, po..r .. “7;
The national defense training
class and the newly est* hlished
Industrial arts department of
North Wilkesroro school drew
high praise Friilay afternoon from .
E. uM. Claude, special agent for |
the United States office of edu
cation, division of defense tr in-
ing. and from Q. E. Mathis, rs-
i sistant sitpervi-or of industr.al
education.
They spent some time with the
industrial arts class in the school
and the defense class in machine’
operation rt Meadows Mill com
pany plant.
Both were very complimentary
to W B. Collin.s. industrial urts
instructor and supervisor of de-
fepse cla.sses, and to E. C. John
son, defense class instructor.
Speaking of the industrial arts
department of the school. Mr.
Claude said: “This is one of the
beat school shops I have seen
I anywhere in the south, and i am
• piirticularly impressed with the
seriousness with which the boys
are going about their work. Mr.
Collins and the administration
are to be complimented on the
fine work being done in the in
dustrial classes.”
Both supervisors were well
pleased with the progress of the
defense training class under Mr.
Johnson. They were particularly
imprefieeJ by the 'act thrat none
of the 13 boys who started the
class had dropped out since its
organization early in January.
Local School Wins
HonorslnDebating
mark and may reach a thousand
pounds each by fair time next
fall.
Last year three of the children
in prizes i.it the county and state
lairs.
ThL year five of the children,
Glenn, Jesse. Robert, Paul jud
Mary, plan to show animals at
the fairs.
Their three calves last year
were sold for about 14 cents per
It thut they get the beet of care
and feed. When the children ar
rive home from school they take
that job oH hte hai).terAhg
lia^ a ■treat
majority of these'hre'toung here-
fords to ’be fed out, into ^ high
quality beef animals' He doe.5n’t
expect to get rich but by provid
ing grazing and growing his own
feed he is earning a comfortable
living for himself and family.
Churches of Citf ^i^anixe
Committee To HafiM .Funds
For The BnUdbif
Churches' of North Wjlke^orq ■
have launched a >. camptdgn to
erect a commuiritY house in the.
Woodlawn seetloii of-North Wll-
keeboro. ,
Need for a building of that
type in Woodlawn' boeaime evi
dent last summer when a group
of young oeople from the church
es thgan operation of. an inter
denominational Sunddy school
there. The Sunday school was
held under the trees because no
building waa lavalJable and the
attendance of chlldven'' ateraged
between.75 and 100.'->
A group of Ihterested citizens
petitioned the city .i^cjmmissloners
to act as sponsoring agent for a
WPA project in order that a com
munity building for use by the
inter - denominational Sunday
school and other community
meetings might be constructed.
Plans were made for such a
project, the total cost to be about
$3,500 and the sponsors share
of that amount about $1,200.
An adequate lot in the center
of the Woodlawn community was
donated for the community build
ing .by N. B. Smlthey. prominent
local business man. •
The committee to raise the
sponsor’s share of the coet, about
$1,200, has been organized and
the drive for funds will be car
ried out this week.
Rev. Watt M. Cooper, pastor
of the North Wllkasboro Presby
terian church, is general chair-
P' M. Williams is chairman of
the group 10
Appointees
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f Left: Ralph Austin Bard of C%1-
Icago, who was appointed assistant
Isecretary of the navy. Bight: Rob-
jert A. Lovett of New York, appolnt-
:ed special assistant to secretary el
Iwar for air.
Chief Walker’s
Name Forged To
Teleprams Here
w*
Did Not Sign Or Authorize
His. Name To Be Signed To
Telegrams Favoring BHls
House K^KII
To Rajse Ele^on
OHioals’Wages
Also Kills Storys BiU To R«-
' peal Commissioner Dis
tricting Act Of 1939
J. E. Walker, North Wllkes-
police chief, said here
r ajght that he did not
Greensboro Columnist Blasts Outside
Legislators For Trying To Run Wilkes
Tom Bost Says “Democracy Ceases By Such Processes To
Be a Way of Life, a Principle, and Degenerates Into
Pure Caprice”; Says Minority Denied Rights
Debiters of North Wilkesboro
high schmd as a unit won second
“Nn nower ana no slivi''" plate In the forensic tournarnent
. any point of the world Friday at Appalachian high
/.hfliiire the outcome of this, jn Bopne.
can change me England -r *-"
battle in any respect
will fall ”
About 25 high .=ehools in the
western part of the state were
repreeent^d in the tourney.
Egg With 3 Yolk, .,^-i'rr.riini‘ra
Mrs. Albert Church, ^ce
Creek, brought Se'among
The h;; from Nort'h" WUkeeboro
BaUirday. It was tbeji«^ wholpart were ,M,„er and
egg ever seen by ^ i
— ... » and when Mr^ I Billy Wade Estes, the latter
egiained n »
WnS 'loirM'an .IWrnaW. Ml..
Gourley, faculty member, ts coach
of the debating teams.
The query thl* year . debates
‘^V/hTof the egg was over
K winces. «2r*and of the “qoertlon of a policy of com-
"^M*lf inches in 1 pulsory military training for one
inches in lewh* | military training for one
—i wte ♦riU,«*on>
“.Mr 1.
— o»sa;siP» Ct Boope oo jfejab- ^a- -
ITider tl>e sub-title of “'This
Is Peinocracy” M’. T. Bost, Ra-
ieigli oolniniilst of the Greens
boro l)a»ly News, on Suinlay
commentefl as follows on the
treatment ju-coi-ded Kei>resen-
tative T. K. Story in tlie legis
lature FrUlay:
Until people in this country
understand that a Repuhliean
has Just ay mucli right to lie in
the general a-‘seinbly as a Dem
ocrat ha.s and that when a con
stituency seaids a Kepublican to
Raleigh if does .so because It
desires a Repnhlican, things
like EViday’s general as einbly
will happen and tiie rights of
nitnoriUes wilt be hdd in con
tempt.
For some rea.son some Deino-
cTats i n ronnties touching
Wilkes, likewise in Wilkes, do
not like one of the newspa;>ers
In Wilk€?s county. There are
kind.s o f legal advertising
which mu* be made in newss
l>apers. Generally the county
commissioners who are the bus
iness directors of the county,
phuy sucli advertising and nat
urally enough they lay
matter in papers that are
friendly to the commissioners
them elves. But Democrats de
manded that the sheriff of
\yHkes, who is a Democrat,
have the right to insert this
’ lepal advertising, and^that took
it away from Uie Republican
county commissioners. If there
is another county/in the state
whioli has any such arrange
ment nobody was thoughtful
enough to bring the evidence
into the assembly.
It was argued with much
fury and fome planslblUty that
the Wilkes shertff should have
the placing of this legal busi
ness. This officer, again it was
anRoanced, is the son of Farm
er Bob Houghton, one of Uie
most important men in the
United States govemmeut and
oqngreMman for 80 yeuw in
the ninth dMrkt.^ Nobody
1 canid Wnme an aOroaUe-'': ^
mmktwg of * a
nuinic name. E’anner Bob
Dougliton is a national figure
who has grown great lanjely
on his personal ability and
eliamcler. .A son of Farmer Bob
would be a faithful tru-stee.
The speech was very much
aimed at Fam er Bob.
But that isn’t in the sllght-
e.st wise tlie issue. Wilkes coun
ty sent a Republican to repre
sent 't and he ha': tlie rigiit to
represent U. Wilkes county
Democrats Ivave no rild>t to ask
the general assembly to punish
tlieir Bepublitan represenfa-
f've. .Any other view lacks lit
tle of a monstrosity. It nmkt'S
no difference how fine Sheriff
(*laude Dougliton is, he doesn’t
run the county’s flscail affa'rs.
Kepubileans Imve the same
rights in the as-sernHy that are
freely accorded the Democrats,
and the minority doesn’t get
them. Democracy . ceases by
sTich processes to be a way of
life, a principle, and degene
rates into pure caprice.
Mrs. Everette Will
Address P.-T. A.
Mrs. Ruth Vick Everette, sec
retary of the North Carolina Edu
cation Association, will address
the North Wilkesboro Parent-
Teacher associutton in meeting
Thureday afternoon, 3:16, in the
school auditorinm.
Ail school pc Irons and teach,
ers from other schools are invit-
in the t.irolneas section of the
with Wm. H., Duhllng and John
Walker as assistant*. W. K. Stu^
dlvrnt is chairman for the can
vass among, professional pe«Pje
with Paul S. Cragan and Mjm Ba
Holman as assistants.
ion is chairman for contact wlta
fraternal organizations. Carl B.
VanDemian is house-to-hmiM can
vass chairman with Mrs. VanDe-
man. Miss Ruth Webb, Miss Mary
Lane. Mrs. J. L. Clements and
Miss Margaret Faw as
Plan.'j are to conclude the can-
vass this WBck-
Women’s Defense
■Trsdning Class Is
Started In City
Home Economic* Teacher At
City School* Instructor
For Evening Cla*»e»
A defense training class for
women of North Wilkesboro and
surrounding communities was ^
gun tonight in the North Wilkes
boro high school. ^ .
The claas will meet fei
hour each Mondtiy an-fl
evenlnc, 7:30 o’clock, until April
3 and all wotnen and girls not
in school are Invited to enrolled
attend every class session pos-
^^***ETr3t aid. home nursing and
care of the sick will be the prin
cipal phases of the trrlning with
home economics teacher, as class
tastructor. The training received
will he a valuable part of ^he
education of
as well as being dwigned to be
extremely helpful in
emergencies. .
Some of the subjects will te
pmctlcal aids and appliances
in care for sick, proper (tare
aervlce of food*, common sen*e
methods of pr«v8tttittg
and accidents, home medicine
chest—what rt should contain
and how it should be used.
Women’s civic organlaatlon* of
the city readily gave their en-
sentiitives in
isage of two bills introduced
in' the .senate by Senator Harry
Miller, of Alexander epunty, not
withstanding the fact that it was
learned here thrt at least five
representatives had received such
telegrams bearing the name of
Chief Walker.
Asked TJiursday night whether
or not he had sent the telegrams.
Chief Walker said he had not and
had not known anything about
the bills being Introduced until
The state house of representa
tives on Friday killed two and
passed one of the three Wilke*
bills introduced last week.
The measure introduced by
Wilkes Representative T. E. Story
to repeal the 1939 law dividing
the county into three districts for
nomination and election of com
missioners, which •wus passed in
1939, was killed in a committee,
and the districting law stands.
A bill introduced by Senator
Miller, of Alexander county, to
allow the Wllkee sheriff to place
advertisement of the delinquent
tax list in whatever paper ho
chose and would compel the
county commissioners to pay
cltarges for same immediately on
completion of the publication,
was first killed in the house and
later recalled, passed and ordered
ratified into law,, over protest of
Wilkes Representative T. E,
Story.
On third reading Representa
tive T. E. Story sought an amend
ment to the bill as follows: “The
county commissioners shall re
ceive bids from all the local pap
ers end shall advertise the sale*
of tax liens on real estate in the
paper making the lowest bid.”
Roproeentatlve Story won hi*
light to WU the bUl, also Intro-
VS Atec tHA ot rice-
Raleigh flavoring registrars and judges in
Wilkes to five and four dollar*
respectively, and to *1
per day,
low them five cents per mile for
fttending each meeting and for
delivering elections returns.
The Raleigh News and Observ
er on Saturday morning carried
the following ijccount of the
fight for and agaia't the bills in
the paper’s “Under the Dome”
column:
Rescued
Grey-haired, soft-spoken T. B.
he read about them Thursday story, the Representative from
night, although the telegrams ' - ' ■‘*-
had been received in Raleigh
hours earlier.
After being informed’ that tele
grams bearing hU name had been
received in Raleigh urging p.’ts-
Wilkes, got the House to come t»
his rescue yesterday. He stayeS
rescued foj aLout two hours. Ho
needed help, too, becruse he i*
a Republican and two Democratic
bills affecting Republioan Wllkea
receiveu DlilH aiLVUClUA
age of the two senate bills rela. bounty were on the verge of sklp-
tive to Wilkes, Chief Walker* through to passage.
wired five house members that
he had not signed or authorized
First to be called was SB 3 23,
which was introduced by Senator
lie uau itA/i, -- -- I WHICH naa .p.*-. ,
anyone to sign his name to *he Miller. Democrat of Stony
telegjrams which they had i"® I point. That would have fixed thn
calved that day. i pay of Wilkes judges of election
It was not learned here imme- ^ jgj and tbe pay of reg-
dlately who forged Chief Walk-, ^t $5 a day for the time
. ,1... making returns and at
tending meetings called by State ^
and county boards Of election*.
The Wllkei registrars are Demo
crats and the bill would have
forced the Republican board of
commissioners to pay them at a
rate higher than that set in the,
general State law.
“’This bill WU8 introduced by a
■ Senator from outside my district
„ and outside my county.” Story
Is For Purpose Of Making House. “It looks *s if I
should have the privilege of in-
er’s name or who filed the tele
grams >bearing the forgery.
Registration Of
M Veterans In
Wilkes Is Asked
Survey of Civilian De
fense Possibilities
troducing bills for my county.”
Representative W. I. Hal.-tead
ed to attend. Mrs. Everette is one
of the beet known school author- ine ‘'^"1 which 1*
Itles in the state and local school «ehool. No
authortUee feel fortuw’te in be- s^nsored by
Inr able to secure her to.address ohi:Tge Is ma
the meeting. ' . bershlp. ^
. , U. 8. A., retired, a member of
IMPROVED I EpUcOpal" iiatlonal Mecutlve
During the pwt fe*Mye*rs, the o*
qualitT^ Bheepkepilty Watanga St 20tr A#fcri«in Legion homo defense
cesmty farmer* ha* Iteen lmproved Thur^ar o’clock! adiiSfltle*. 1![h*t thte mlselon will
^N* C. y. vii, on elglii)
The.present survey of civilian ^er'in
defense functions in modern war- asking if ” .'^^an hat
fare being made in England by the hill was
an American Legion mission is then
Sonlai?^. anT thousVnT of able hut Rep. Henry I^bson
unafflllated World War veterans, Surry, e
scheduled for Saturday, Fehru- f^^ had a
%hls' was the statement here number of telegrams flivoring the
today of Commander Lewis Nel- bill. Mull
So. .h, W.IW count, PC, V
No. 125, of this city, who has 31
started the machinery rolling for tabled the hi
t.n.1 ,o.l.t,.««n, »T. .
“The American Legion mission , there, ' hrtrodne-
Commander Milo J. Wam/ir. He ea . chariffG T Dongh-
Commiander Franklin D. Oliver ton, ^ (
and Major General Frank l-arker. of sal*^
• aWoll Ka fVnKltsIkttril*
of tax liens shall be pnBlfah*i.'^^
The county conimleeloiHirs ■would
hare been forced to_
of advectisement. ' ' "e Mt
Sheriff, Donghton 1* * K« .m.
Covgrmti&ax R; U Do»«htt)n ‘
Story made '
& (OonMnned oh f»g» .eigh*)-.