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e r^ oashe s s Mai SeleicM For
Draft Call Fi^y;
Iterlln.—'Many American real,
denta of Berlin made arreage-
nenta last night to telephone
each' other freonently and were
urging friends to call often at
their homes and offices as un-
tsertainty spread as to who would
4iw arrested next.
The name of the Rer. Stewart
Herman, pastor of the American
Church, of Berlin, was added to
the list of tfnlted States cltisens
called in by police for an unex
plained and awarently routine
questioning.
(Herman, of Harrisburg, Pa.,
.^as struck on March 27, 1936 by
workman who thought the pas-
>r showed a lack of reverence
jioT the Nazi flag. Herman failed
to salute the flag during the
* minute of silence ordered
throughout Germany that day.
The worker disappeared when
ho learned Herman was an Amer
ican. Propaganda ministry spokes
man expressed regret for the in
cident.)
The purpose of the .Americans
In keeping in touch with each
other was to be sure someone be
side the police would know of
any future arrests.
If someone is missing any
length of time, the assumption
would be that he had been round
ed up and friends can try to do
something about it.
The-e isn’t much to be done,
however.
Persons taken in custody usua -
'ly are not permitted to use the
telephone or notify anyone be
fore being taken off to .station
hy officers who protest they don t
know what it is u'l about.
13 Go From Here
Wilkes Men To Report Fri
day Will Be Inducted At
Fort Jaekion
Wilkes draft boards have made
selections of men to fill the se
lective service call on Friday,
April 11.
Wilkes boerd minrber one will
furnish four. They are: Robert
Childress. Wilk^boro: George
Wellborn. Ronda; Arvil Robert
Johnson, Boomer; Lester Louis
Harris, Hamptonvllle.
Wilkes board number two will
furnish nine as follows; F.verette
Herman Wood, Varnle Richard
son. Edgar Levett Transou. Grs.-
dy Odell Church, Claude Bowers,
Paul Martin Sexton, Jack Dillon
Marsh. John Albert Hinshaw, Er
nest Ru.ssell Harris.
Selectees from both draft
board areas will be inducted at
Fort Jackson, S. C.
On April 14 Wilkes board will
furnish five colored recruits.
Three will be from board number
one. They are William Henry
Harris. James Edward Harris
and William Herman Jones, all
volunteers. Draft board number
two will furnish two but their
names had not been announced
today. The colored men will .go
to Fort Bragg.
Belgrade Burns
I k After Three Big
Luftwaffe Raids
Zurich.—Greek lines were
Wilkes Over Top
In Raising Funds
re-
poned earlv today to have held
firm under the baptism of fire
with which Germany launched
her blitzkrieg agaln.st Greec'e and
Yugoslavia while the Nazis said
their dive bombers had left Bel-
grade '*a sea of flanies.
I BritiP’h Tommies were fiKhting
,iklong.side the armies of the little
I Balkan nations.
The Greek high command ad
mitted certain withdrawals to
avoid bloody sacrifices aiid the
cracking of one fortification a-
long the German-violPted fron
tier with Bulgaria. But i* claim
ed that on the whole the Greeks
stood adamant, giving a good ac
count of themselves.
Adolf Hitler’s vast Balkan
^rmy of 500.000 or more troops
and'fleets of terrifying -Stuka”
dive-bombers, striking at dawn to
touch off the Balkan powder keg.
smashed simultaneously across
the northern frontiers of > ugos-
lavia and Greece while Italy’s air
force attacked southern Yugos
lavia. , ,
Under the impact of three day
light bombings. which tre.tted |
Belgrade to the same merciless
devastation which Warsaw and
Rotterdam suffered, the new
Yugoslav anti-axis government of
Gen. Dusrn T, Simovitch was .said
iby the German radio to have fled
Pfom Belgrade to a temporary
capital in southern Serbia, behind
^^0 S0rt)iiri mountains
where the real big test of the Nazi
Reichswehr’s invesion is e.xpected
to come.
County On Honor List Read
Out At Democratic Din
ner In Raleigh Friday
Wilkes was one of the counties
which went “over the top” in
raising Demoonitic * campaign
funds in connection with the
Jackson Day dinnar-beld Friday
night in Raleigh. There were 30
counties who=e Democratic or
ganizations had that record and
were so honored.
Those *rom Wilkes attending
the dinner were J- R- Rousseau
chairman. J. G. llackett. \v. H.
McRlwce. C. T. Doiighton. W. A.
McNiel, Carlyle Ingle. F. C. For
ester and Watson Brame.
Wilkes quota to raise was $150
i-nd that amount was easily ex
ceeded. J. R. Kou.sseau. chairman
said.
The feature address at the din
ner was delivered by Senator
Scott W. Lucas, of Illinois. His
address was hi.ghly praised and
enthusiastically received by the
large crowd at the dinner.
Wilkesboro Town
Contest May 6th
No Primary Held Today Be
cause Number Candi
dates Insufficient
North Wilkesboro
Loses First Game
North Wilkesboro high school
baseball team, with many of its
members playing their first game.
lost to Taylorsville here Thursday j ^ ^ Cranor and L
afternoon 7 to 3. The Lions went
into the lead 2 to 1 in the first
inning but the visitors, aided by
gome errors, took the lead in the
5th and went on to win. Brook
shire. pitcher, and Hunt, catcher,
works well for the home team
and Elledge played a grand game
in the outfield. Smoak and Ad
kins were the Taylorsville bat
tery. The North Wilkesboro team
plays Boone there today and Tay
lorsville at Taylorsville Friday.
Today was primary date in
Wilkesboro but the primary was
waived because there was not suf
ficient number of candidates for
primary contests.
The contest will be in the elec
tion on May 6. when the voters
of the town will select a mayor
from two candidates and four
commissioners from six who filed
notices of candidacy.
The mayoralty race is between
B. Dula. J.
F. Jordan, incumbent mayor,
withdrew from the race, leaving
only two candidates.
The six from whom tour will
be chosen for commissioner it;
the election are i’r ”■ T 'id’b
ell, Wm. A. Stroud. .lames Lowe,
W. E. Smithev. Sheirian T. Col-
vard and George Kennedy.
J R. Henderson, town clerk, is
registrar for the election and
registration books will be opened
on April 12. 19 and 26 for new
registration of voters for the
town election. A total of 118 reg
istrations were made during the
Wilkesboro High
Loses To Boone Jjjg books were open-
With both teams playing their > ^ jbe primary date,
first game of t ie season '
Sr
Wilkes
U>ro lost an interesting game of
baseball Thursday afternoon to
Appalachian high of ^ne by
the score of 10 to 5. The game
was played in Wilkesboro.
Bingbam was on the mound for
Appalachian, while Adelman and
MWley did the pitching for
WlUeaboro. Beach received for
and Dennis and
H^i^hire caught the game for
will Play a second
pime tn the^near future at Boone.
Red Cross Meeting
J. H. Whicker, cliainnan of
the Wiike.s county chapter of
the American Reel Cross, has
called a meeting to be held in
the city IwU *» ■* P-
April 16, 1941. for the purpose
of electing officers of the
chapter, selection of a roll call
chairman, adoption of budget,
and such other bxudness as
may fwx)periy come before the
meetUig.
Publisfted Mondays and ’niitfsdsyB
1^ LBiu
Leader Passes
■9
(School Childraa Excel*
lent Wmii In'- Sellinf.
Easter Lilies
A ‘Big Shot’ for Uncle Siun
S. Q. Myers, owner of a chain
of hotels, died Tuesday night
In Lenoir. Sir. Myers was a na
tive of Wilkes and has many
relatives and friends here. I’Yi-
n‘ral senice wa-s held Friday
afternoon in Lenoir.
, Bale of Easter lillies here Sat
urday to raise funds to aid nn-
’ derprivileged crippled children
netted the aum of $66.15, it was
reported today.
The sale of lillies was initiated
Si turday by a parade by the i
North Wilkesboro high school;
band and other high school chil
dren on the streets. In the sell
ing the senior girls were captains
and girls of the sixth, seventh
and eighth grades did the sales
work.
Meanwhile the sale of Easter
seals is progressing rapidly and
good headway has been made biut
the committee is renewing its ^
appeal for generous support In |
purchase of seals In order that
liie goal for the county may be
reached.
U. S. NAVY
Bum
15 Battlesh^s 17
6 Aircraft Carriers 12
37 Cruisers 48
159 Destroyers
Submarines
104
166
81
20 From Wiikes
Left On Friday
For Ft. Jackson
Another Call On April 11
Will Take 13; Five Col
ored To Go April 14
Wilkes county’s contribution
to Uncle Sam’s fast growing army
Friday was 20 selectees who left
by bus for Fort Jackson to be in
ducted for a year’s training.
Eight were from Wilkes board
number 1 and 12 were from
hoard number two area.
Leader of the board number
one group was Charlie Comb.5 and
the others were Henry Anderson
Onley Crmpbell. Slede Andersor
Church, Oilen Craig, Ernest
Walker. Gny Bumgarner and
Frank Oambill.
The 12 fro*n board area niini-
ber two were: Romulus Carlton,
leader, Wade Osborne, George
Yale. Talmadge Patterson, Iredell
Wadkins. James Lex Meadows.
Grant Lawrence, I.eRoy Transou.
Richard Gray Collins, Woodrow
Wilson Cooper, V'on Myers, and
Presley Adams.
Wilkes board number two will
furnish four and board number
two nine on April 11. They will
go to Fort Jackson. On April 4
board number 1 will furnish two
colored and board number two
will furnish three colored.
Seize 150 Gallons
Of White Whiskey
Hickory. -'Ipril 4.—The Cataw
ba county .sheriff’s department to
day announced the seizure of a
150-gallon load of white corn
liquor in the eastern part of the
county last night.
Howprd Segraves of North
Wilkesboro, booked as the driver
of the 1935 Ford coupe, ;;iive
$500 cash bond, it was st”,ed.
pending trial in county recorder s
court April 15. Segravas was .ir-
rested and his car confiscated by
deputies John Cline and Cha-lie
Fulhrlght following a short
chase. This was one of the big
gest white liquor hruls made by
county officers in months.
Ask For Bids For
Wilkes county board of com
missioners today advertised tor
dd.s on plumbing at the Wilkas
■onjity jail.
'rite bids will be opened by the
hoard on Vpril 21, ten a. m., and
ill be received until that time.
Failure to install new plumb
ing in the jail was one of the
acts charged in the indictment
of the present and former boards
commissioners by the grand
jury in the March term of court,
when Judge F. Donald Phillips
ordered the solictor to draw bills
of indictment against members
of the county board.
Brother Of Mrs. J.
W. White and Mrs.
J. E. Spainhour Dies
.Ifr. .‘itanley Sydnor Passed .Away
A'esteislay In Richmond
Hospital
The*NorUi CaroUiw, (gbove) first new battleship of the V. 8. navy
in 20 years, is to be commissioned April 11, five months ahead of
schodnle, has nine 16-inch guns, which can fire a broadside of 20,6M
poimds for 20 miles. Its displacement Is 35,000 tons, the biggest In the
D. 8. navy. It was laimched June 13 at New York.
“GoToCltoch”
Drive Contmuei
Tboi^ April
Building Civic And Fraternal Organ
izations Backing Attend
ance Campaign
News tvas received here yester
day of the death of Mr. Stanley
Sydnor at the St. Luke Hospital
in Richirond. Va. Mr. Sydnor wa.
a brother of Mrs. J. W. White, of
Wilkesboro, and Mrs. J. E. Spain-
hour, of this city. He was also a
brother of the late W. A. Sydnor,
of this city. A brother, Mr. E. B.
Sydnor, of Richmond, Va., and a
sister. Mrs. R. B. Laffitte, of
Lloyd. Fla., also survive.
Mr. Sydnor. age 68. the son of
the late .!. L. and Ella Gatlin Syd
nor. had been 111 for two weeks,
having suffered a severffifldpalte
of paralysis. ’
Funeral and burial services
will be held in Richmond tomor-
at 11 a. m. Mrs Spainhonr
and son. Mr. Eugene Spainhour.
of Elkin, left today to attend the
.services.
Rev, H. G- ADen
Kiwanb Speaker
Interesting Meeting of Club
Held Friday Noon; One
New Member
Organization Of
Junior Chamber
Commerce Talked
Another Meeting Will Be
Held On Wednesday
Night at City Hall
A second meeting to discuss or
ganization of a Junior Chamber
of Commerce for North Wilkes
boro will be held ?t the city ball
Wednesday night, April 9, 7:30
p. m.
Tom Broughton, of Lenoir, met
with 17 young men on Friday
night and dUreunsetl Nlia'
All Members Of'
Welfare Board
Re-Appointed
Brame And Smithey Re-Ap
point Dr, J. G. Bentley
To One-Year Term
Program at Friday noon meet
ing of the North Wilkesboro Ki-
waiiis rinb received many favor
able comiiient.s. Genio Cardwell
was program chairman and Rev.
A. L. Aycock. Methodist minister,
introduced the speaker. Rev. H.
G. .Mien, of Statesville.
Prior to the program an inter
esting business session was held.
J. G. Gambill was inducted into
the membership of the club and
was presented the Kiwanis but
ton by A. H. Casey. The club was
informed tbrt Cabell Philpott, of
Lexington, had been selected as
Lieutenant Governor of Division
three and that he has invited the
clubs of the district to meet in
Lexington on the night of April
17.
The program opened with re
marks by A. H. Casey, who point
ed out that the club was charter
ed April 7. 1923. and with
organization here, outlining the
benefits the community and the
members might deriye from an
active Junior Chamber here, and
the date was set for the second
meeting, at which time a tempor
ary organization may be formed.
Considerable interest was
shown among the group present
and it was agreed that a larger
attendance of young business
and professional men between
ages of 21 and 35, Inclusive,
would be sought for the meeUng
to be held on Wednesday night
this week.
Mr. Broughton said that rep
resentatives of the Lenoir Jaycee
organization would have with
them some of the officers of the
State Junior Chamber at the
Wednesday night meeting.
P. J. Brame and W. E. Smith
ey, members of the Wilkes coun
ty welfare board appointed by
the State Board of Charities and
Public Welfare and by the coun
ty board of commissioners, met
Friday and re-ap,pointed Dr. J. G.
Bentley, of Pores Knob, as the
Increased attendance at chusch
and Sunday school services yes
terday was reported from the
churches of the Wilkeaboros and
from several rural churches.
Sunday was the first of four
Sundays in the “Go To Church’*
movement being sponsored hers
by civic and fraternal organiza
tions for the month of ApriL
’This campaign consists of much
publicity and personal solicitation
for people to attend church ser
vices during the month.
A brief survey of the churches
today revealed a general increase
which In some instances was 25
per cent above attendance at
former services. Meanwhile, the
campaign will be continued
throughout the month with the
sponsoring organizations endeav
oring to secure an increase each
Sunday over the succeeding Sun
day.
At the First Baptist church
here Sunday school attendance
was increased by 70 and there
was a capacity crowd for the
morning worship service and a
substantial increase in number
tor the evening service.
At the Methodist church there
was a capacity crowd for the
morning service and a larger at
tendance than usual at the eve.
ning service, when Rev. A. C.
Gibbs, district superintendent,
conducted the quarterly conferr.
Thns the i)K>ard is 6dm'
the same members as- have been
serving during the past two
years.
Mr. Brame was re-appointed by
the state board for three years,
Mr. Smithey was re-appointed by
the commissioners tor a two-year
term, and Dr. Bentley was re-ap
pointed by the other two. as the
law provides, for a one-year term.
The board met on Saturday
afternoon to orgarize.
One of the duties of the board
will be the election of a welfare
officer, whose term of office w'ill
begin on July 1 for an indefinite
period under the merit system
now being instituted in public
welfare work.
20 Magistrates
Named Tkis Year
Dr. McNeill Taking
Special Courses In
Philadelphia 2 Weeks
Ten Townships Get Magis
trate Appointments In
Legislative Act
Twenty magistrates In eleven
Wilkes towaships were appointed
by act of the legislature this
year, according to e certified
copy received by C. C. Hayes,
Wilkes clerk of court.
The magistrates, appointed for
term of six years, are as t^lows.
.Edwards, E. W. Smith, R- ^
'Harris, Clifton Prevette and J. W.
Dr. J. H. McNeill, promineni
local physician .'•nd member of
the .staff of Wikes hospital, left
Sunday tor Philadelphia, where
he will take a special course in
heart disease during the next
two weeks.
The course is being given under
auspices of the Americen College
of Physicians. After two weeks
in Philadelphia, Dr. McNeill will
proceed to Boston to attend ses
sions of the American College of
Physicians and "will peturn to
North Wilkesboro on April 28.
I -l) mem here. Sixteen of the charter e,'k, w. E, Horton ; Lew
Plumbing In Jail ,„emters ere still in the club, he.j^ p^^k, Jennie Blackburn; Mul-
said. MrsC Lucille Farmer sang ^ ^yjrs. Stacey H. Jones; New
Castle, C. W. Haynes;
School Holiday Here
wo numbers, “Beautiful Dream
land” and “Oh Sussanna.”
Guests of Genio Cardwell were
Rev, and Mrs. H. G. Allen, of
latesville. Airs. Cardwell and i
North
Wilkesltoro,
and Harvey Key; Reddles River,
Ta. Bumgarner. W. I. Bqmgar-
and'W. H. Nichols;
-- ner
Mrs. Lucille F; rmer, of this city; Charlie H. Dancy
Cleve Allen, of Atlanta. Ga., was' Ha^ves
" guest of C. 0. McNlel; Sample
—. Forbus and wife and Mrs.
Fred Hubbard, Jr., were with Dr.
C. Hubbard: Tom Grier, Cecil
Grier and T. B. Dy.-art, of Lenoir,
were guests of S. V. Tomlinson.
Mr. Allen spoke from the sub
ject, “America, The Favored Na
tion.” It is favored as follows:
Historically, It is the last of
the great nations to launch a
great government.
Providentially, Columbus fol-
Rock
Stan
ton, Miss Lucille Hayes; Trap-
hill, W. B. Hall and ^
Holbrook: Wilkesboro. Char e
Culler, Miss Frrnk Somers and
Miss Elsie Foster.
North Wilkesboro schools wiil
close on Thursday afternoon for
the Eaater holidays, Supt. Paul
S. Cragan said today. The school
will reisume work on Tuesday
morning, April 15.
B T. U. Meeting
Pomona Grange Meet
odist 'church for the momlns
service when Rev.'Mr. Gibbs con
ducted the quarterly conference
for the Wilkesboro charge.
The North Wilkesboro Presby
terian church auditorium was
filled for the morning service and
there wa.s an increase in the at
tendance at Sunday school and
for the evening church service.
At the Wilkesboro Baptist
church Rev. T. Sloan Guy, Jr.,
new pastor, greeted large audi
ences at church services a.s he be
gan his pastorate in Wilkesboro.
Twenty-Nine Join
C.C.C. Wednesday
All Eligible White Appli
cants In Wilkes Taken
Into The Camps
Wilkes Pomona Grange
meet at the courthouse in
kesboro Tuesday afternoon,
o’clock.
will
Wil-
four
P.-T. A.HereWin
Meet Tuesday, 3;lo
Johnson Infant Dies
Representatives of churches of lowed the birds and. missed the
the Bnisby Mountain Bpptist as-J North American Continent which
sociation are attending an assocl- otherwise might have been a
ational Baptist Training Union . Catholic continent. George Wash
meeting this afternoon and night in^on at one time was at the
at Wilkesboro Baptist church, point of enlisting in the British
The night session will begin at Navy but his mother persuaded
seven o’clock and there will be him otherwise. Bad he do.ne thhi
three representallves from Ra- we might still be Brltlsli subjects,,
leigb In attendance. 1 (Continued on page eight)
A program by the putillc schtml
„.„sir department win feature the
Prjenf-Teacher meeting to
afternoon, April 8, 3.15. The
program will be varied and wU
include numbers from the first
grade through high school and
by the high school band and
chorus. All school patrons are In-
rtted to attend.
Berry Lee Johnson, infant son
of Taft and Zelma Oakley John
son of North Wilkesboro route
three, died Friday. Surviving are
the father and mother, one broth
er and three sisters.
Walsh Infant Dies
^courage
owners.
tenants to become
Cornelia Jane Walsh, age two
months, daughter of C. B. and
Nell Parsons Walsh, of Boomer,
died on Saturday. Funeral was
held Sunday at Beaver Creek
church.
Twenty - nine Wilkes county
boys. 21 white and eieht colored,
w'ere enrolled in the Civilian Con
servation Camps last week.
The boys were examined at
the C. C. Camp at I.aurel Springs
and were later assigned to camps
in different parts of the slate.
Charles McNeill, welfare officer
who has charge of selecting boys
to enter camp, said that some or
all of those enlisted may have
an opportunity to serve their en
listment period at camps in the
western states.
The whites accepted from
Wilke.'s were Joshua Everett Car-,
ter. John Willard Elledge. Ray
mond Arthur E.step. Linville
Hook Greene. Virgil Ray Handy,
Roe Dana Haynes, Willard Ross
Hudson. Paul Vestal Johnson,
Gilbert Lee McGlrmery. Roy Lee
McGuire. William Darrell Minton,
William Ray Minton. Ray Stewart
Pardue, Arvil Edward Pender-
gra.s«. Everette Ray Roval. .Ar
nold Ra.by Shell, James Howard
Smithey. Clifton Wells. Everette
Trevis Watkins. Thomas Wood,
Dexter Philmore Wyatt.
The eight colored boys enrolled
were Rhomas Ray Barna-t. Earl
Lee Carlton. James Richard Fer
guson. Fred Leii Hackett, Joseph
William Hunt, James WilUam
McCurdy, Robert Baxter Thomas,
Isadore Wllboni.
Eiilistments in C. C. Camps sjre
now being received eight times
yearly instead of quarterly, the
welfare officer said. The twenty-
nine accepted in the quarterly
enlistment included all eilgiblM
who had made application with
the welfare office.
Weeds - is sin.