THi;
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THE TRAIL OF
FX,
tESS IN THE ,1'STATl
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VP
JNo>K«y Points Taken
fjfly Para^ute Troops
r ^n Invsision Of Crete
London, Thursday, May 22.—
Thottsands of German sky troops
plummeting down in force on the
Greek island of Crete by para,
chota -and glider plane were r^
ported early today to have failed
to gain any key points in their
audacious battle with British im
perial and Greek defenders.
Nazi shock troops also tried to
storm the island’s rocky shores
from speedboat troop carriers hut
Were repulsed. authorlU^live Brit
ish sources said.
Cairo dispatches said 1,000
naaU were killed or crptured in
the first day’s fighting Tuesday.
'Many of the German gliders
were reported to have cracked
Sip in landing. It was one of the
jniost fantastic battles in history,
Snarking as it did the first use of
gliderborne troops, and the use
of blit* tactics in an ancient land
of forbidding terrain where gue
rilla bands have battled down
through the. centuries.
Inforined sources in London
said there was every indication
that the attack, in Us third day.
was increasingly violent, with the
po8.sibility that 7.000 pt rachut-
ists were now in the battle.
Undersized Aircraft
Carriers Mav be Used
To Patrol Sea Lanes
Washington. May 21.—.A hint
that the United States is rushing
preparations to employ numhers
of relatively small \ lane carriers
to safeguard merchant ships came
today from Secret?ry Knox, who
said guardedly that the navy was
“very busy’’ on the undertaking.
Without explainin.g whether
.such craft might be u.sed except
under actual war conditions, the
secretary said that in connection
A'ith the controversy over deliv-
^€ry of munitions to Great Britain,
it was “silly’’ to dwell exclusive
ly on world war methods of pro
tecting convoys from surface and
undersea attack alone.
A speedy former cirgo ship al
ready is being rebuilt experiment
ally as a carrier, and a score of
new type “transports’’ and con
ventional piafin carriers are un
der construction or planned, but
Knox declined to divulge just
what steps were being taken to
cope with the problem presented
by Germany’s aerial blockade of
Britain.
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VOL. XXXIV, No. 17’
For mutual adv«ntftg«i;
db your buyidjr lit Norft;
Wilkesboro, the troflfaiig;
center oC.NoirtiiVietitetB
N(^h Carolinnr
¥
KUDllsn*?a McJIlu. » « nii'i I
iQ'tiia State
Public Aiilttance
Payments In May
Totalei^f,522.00
Aged Get $5,845; Depen
dent Children $2,167;
. and Blind $510
2.00 Out of amn»
WILL DELIVER
Needy Wilkes people received
a total of 18,522 in public assist
ance grants furnished by county,
state and federal governments
this month, according to record
of the Wilkes county welfare de
partment.
.This total represents a slight
increase over the emount' for
April, which set a new record
high for the county.
This month grants totaling $5.-
845 went to 692 needy aged peo
ple. The average grant was $8.46.
Aid to dependent children
■ grants were mailed to 161 fami-
jlies with 317 dependent children.
The total for that department was
$2,167, an average of $13.27 per
family.
Forty-one blifid received $510,
an average of $12.86 per case.
«*Seven Warships Hit
In Aerial Bombings,
German Pilots Say
Berlin. May 21. Gorman
t pmber pilot.-; claimod to have
e'lt a heavy Mow to tho British
fleet in the eastern Mediteranean
today, hitting one battleship, five
cruisers and a de.;lroyer. and
leaving four of them aflame.
In addition, one of the cruis
ers wa-s last seen to be listing
badly, said the official Germ: n
news agency DNB. which repott
ed the engagement tonight.
Exact location of the attack
w^as not disclosed, thut apparetit-
ly was in the neighborhood of
Crete, where the British fleet Is
reported to have repulsed at-
Vempted troop landings by sea).
The D. N. B. report came hard
on the heels of a German spokes,
man’s declaration that nazi para
chutists had occupied several
strategic points in Crete after
concentrated dive-bomber at
tacks softened the British reslst-
pnce on that important Mediter
ranean isle.
Fred Hubbard, Jr.,
Heads Jaycees In
i North Wilkesboro
t
I Officers Junior Chamber Of
j Commerce Are Elected In
j Meeting On Tuesday
I Fred Hubbard. Jr., was elected
president of the North ilkes-
boro Junior Chamber of Com-
i raerce at its May dinner meeting
held at Hotel Wilkes Tuesday
night.
He is a son of Dr. and Mrs. F.
1C. Hubbard and has been active
' in civic work here for the past
, few years.
Other officers elected were as
follows; James Ed Caudill, vice
president; Cha»leg^ Oar: JT.T sec
retary; Paul Green, treasurer; J.
R. McCartney. Russel Gray and
Cody Moore, directors.
' The officers will -erve for one
, year.
I North Wilkesboro Junior
' Chamber of Commerce. formed
in a meeting of fifteen young men
' held a few weeks ago. now has
'a membership of 47. Applicrtions
to the state and national Junior
Chamber of Commerce organiza
tions have r'ready been accepted
and it is expected that charter
night will be observed in the near
future.
27 Wilkes Boys
InC.
Enrolled At (jiMrel BpringS)
AH Eligibte Ypwsg Mra
Who Applied Acceded
/y'*
La^t liine Out
iS
Twenty-seven 'Wilkes county
boys were enrolled In Civilian Con-
' servation camps Tuesday, Otey 20,
Charles McNeill, .Wilkes welfare
; officer in charge of selection of
applications, said today.
1 The Wilkes men were enrolled at
! the Laurel Springs camp and those
I not needed there will be assigned
> to other camps.
I The welfare officer said it is now
I possible to place about all young
■men who are eligible to serve in,
the camps and application may be!
jHiade at any time in the welJfare'
] office for enlistment. Dates for I
j enlistments are now twice quarter
ly instead of four times yearly as'
formerly. |
I The Wilkes men wha enlisted!
Tuesday were Virgil Ehigene Ash-j
ley, Robert Fletcher Absher, Wes-I
[ley Shelton Anderson, Cecil Otisj
' Brown, Elarl EMward Brooks, J. D. [
' Brinegar, Jr., Raymond Lee Bal
lard, Hoyle Eska Billings, Drewie
I Aison Ballard. Eugene Wiley Bent-
!ley, Wiley Bert Clary, Carl Clin-
■i ton Dyer, John Barnes Ferguson,
I Bruce McKinley Hubbard, John
Big Hank Greenberg, (right) the
most valuable man in the American
, Icagne, looks wlstfnlly out towards
Quincy Higi,'ins, JulitiS Jay John- diamond before starting his last
ston, James Beckley James,' g,me prior to bis induction In the
Vaughn David Laws, Richard army. Several hundred friends came j contact in getting drunk when
ederal Cirftirt:
• 77
Youth .Gets Into ■
Trouble WMe '
Being Acquitt^
Msu:k Hufflnan Freed Oft
Liquor Count and Sen
tenced for Being Drunk
Mack Huffman. Wilkes youth,
got Ingloriously drunk Tuesday
because he dreaded to "face the
man” in federal court at Wilkee-
boro on a liquor charge.
“The Man.” as he referred to
Judge Johnson J. Hayes, who ia
presiding over court, freed Huff
man on the liquor charge ha
dreaded so badly but sent him to
Petersburg, Va.. prison for six
monthe for being drunk.
Huffman was indicted with two
other defendants on a liquor
manufacturing count and his case
was called Tuesday. He did not
answer and officer.s were sent out
to get him. He was totally drunk
but later he had sobered up and
the case was tried. Judge Hayea
directed a verdict of not guilty
because the evidence was insuf
ficient but he deemed Huffman’a
iTlmm’as Lowe, William Alvis Min- ’togay good-by.
I ton, Spencer Sheets, Sipencer'
j Coleman Shumate, Dean Ira
Rhoades, Charlie Clarence Watts,
J. C. Walker, Colbert ^Whitley and
Harold B. Parsons.
REV. R. PAUL CAUDILL
Baccalaureate Sermon To Be On
Sunday Night By Rev. Paul Caudill
Rev. R. Paul Caudill, pastor of , churches (J North Wilkeaboro
the First Baptist church at An-1 will pertlplAf^'.lft-^ke s^rxle^
North Wilkesboro
And Elkin Kiwanis
Will Meet Friday
North Wilkesboro,
Thomasville Men
On Wage Council
gtista, Gu., will preach the bac
calaureate sermon Sunday nigh'
to North Wilkesboro high school
seniors in a union service at the
First Brptist church, eight o’
clock.
Rev. Mr. Caudill, an outstand
ing minister, is a former resident
of North Wllkeshofo and as alum-
mis of North Wilkesboro h'gl-
school, where he graduatea i’
1924. He is a son of Rev. and
Mrs. C. M. Caudill, of Hays.
According to his plans as stat
ed here on a recent visit, he wil
rddress a graduating class in An
giist.a. Ga.. Sunday morning and
will come by plane to North Wil
ke-boro Sunday afternoon.
Pastors of the First Baptist.
Methodist and Presbyterian
North Wilkesboro end Elkin
Kiwanis clubs will have a joint
I meeting on Friday evening. May
123, at Honda.
nili lllluJ * If f ^ ilPIh'"" lit flltt*
the; rtpir ^Ikealioro el^sald todJy’
members of'the high school girls :
chon.-- un4er direction of Miss , i„ncheon here and ask-
Lttcille DuBose. school music | men.ibers of the North
teacher. . k i Wilkesboro club attend.
Invocrtlon will be by John . ^^5.3^
M . Kinche oe. Jr.. E rst Baptist
pa.stor; scripture reading-by Rev. !
W. M. Cooper, P>’«hytenan 1 will serve din-
•or; P'“l prayer by Rev. A. L. | entertaining program
S-ect' b^Ref Mn CaudilT will |been planned for the occasion.
be “Spiritual Rearmament.” Inf.ii | 117*11
Other programs in the com-. W|l|
■nencement of North Wilkesboro if lUVCJHIUl V 11 all
high school will be the hand con-j
cert on Thursday night and high
finals on Fridry night.
-chpol
■May 30. The program on
date will he presented by
graduating class.
that
the
Have A Revival
I Washir.gton.—The Labor Pe-
prrtment’s wage and hour divis-
I ion announced yesterday the ap-
! pointment of a committee to meet
here June 17 to investigate con-
' ditions and recommend minimum
' wage.s for the wood furniture
! manufacturing industry.
I Those named to represent the
I employees included T. Austin
i Finch. Thomasville. N. C.. and
John E. Justice, North Wilkes-
I boro, N. C.
McNiel Chairman
U. S. 0. h Wilkes
Is Nation-Wide Organixation
For Benefit Of Men In
The Army Camps
■W. A. McNiel. recently appoint
ed by Governor J. M. Broughton
as Wilkes chairman for the Unit
ed Service Organization, attended
a meeting of county chairmen in
Greensboro Wednesday.
Mr. McNiel, who was recently
informed of his appointment h),
Robert M. Hanes, of Winston
-Salem. stete chairman, said he
would announce plans for the or
ganization locally in a few days.
Purpo.se of the organization,
•which is nation-wide. Is to pro-
jrfiie places of wholesome reere-
1 for soldiers qear army
)8 throughout ihe country,
denominations are cooperat-
In the movement, which Is
cted to receive full support
all patriotic and public spir-
citizens.
e quota of funds to 'be raised
orth Carolina is $124,000,
fate’s part of a fll.OOO.OOO
Associational
W. M. U. Meeting
Here On Tuesday
The annual session of the Wom
an’s Missionary Union of the
Brushy Moun'tain Association will
he held on Tuesday. May 27. at
the North Wilkesboro Baptist
church. The meeting is to open
promptly at 10 o’clock and will
close at 3 o’clock. Unring the
noon hour a b; sket lunch will be
.served at the church.
Revival To Begin
At Moravian Falls
Revival .“-ervlces will begin at
Moravirn F’alls Baptist church
with the Sunday morning service
May 25.
The pastor. Rev. E. V. Bum
garner, will be assisted by Rev.
Clarence Gwaltney, pastor of the
First Baptist church at Troutman.
Hour of the day services will be
announced and evening services
will be held at eight o’clock
Everybody has an Invitation to all
the servicep.
Drivers who did not have the
right-of-way killed 3,000 persons
In the. United States in 1940
Gilliam Family
To Hold Annual
Runion June 8th
The annual reunion of the Gil
liam family is expected to he a
delightful feature of the day Sun
day. June 8th.
The reunion will he held at
the home of Mrs. 0. W. Gilliam.
Sr., and -Mr. and Mrs. D. ,S. Gil-
li; ra, of the Bethel community on
the Old Wilkesboro road five and
one-half miles southwest of El
kin. who will be acting hosts and
hostess to- the many relatives,
neighbors and friends who are in
vited, and expected to gather with
picnic baskets to supplement the
lunch which will he enjoyed by
all who attend.
Near this home service will he
held at Bethel church at 11:00
o'clock a. m. Many will gather In
the church where the late John
Gilliam and several of his chil
dren were charter members—-A
number of grandchildren and
great grandchildren worship at
this sacred place now.
At the home at 12:15 p m. a
brief memorial service will be
held for. John G. Gilliam, Vi^o
passed rway at his home in El
kin four months ago; Attorney
John R. Jones, of North Wilkes-
boro. will .=peaV at 12:30 and din
ner served at 1:00 o’clock p. m.
..Music will he furnished by
quartets.
Officers in charge of the re
union are: Chairman J. A. Gil
liam, North Wilkesboro; secre
tary, Mrs. W. H. Jones, Honda.
Perry Ch*ld Dies
Jimmy Perry. Inant son of Guy
and Cordle Watk ns Perry, of
"Vannoy, died Tue^-dsy morning at
the .Baptist hospital In Winston-
Salem and funeral service was
held Wednesday, three o'clock,
at Rock Springs church.
Mrs. R. M. Brame
Badlv Injured In
Series Of Services To Begin
On Monday Night At
Baptist Church
A series of revival services will
i-" 11 IJ T' J ' begin at the Wilkesboro Baptist
Fall Here lue8day pjjyfj.jj Monday night. May 26.
Rev. T. Sloan Guy, Jr., pastor.
prominent ^ assisted during the revival
Rev. T. Sloan Guy,
Mrs. R. M. Brame,
resident of this city, was critical
ly inii'red Tuesday morning in a
fall. She suffered a fractured ver
tebrae of the spinrl column.
Mr.^. Brame was walking on a
sill where their home, which was
damaged by fire. Is being torn
down, when she fell. She was
taken immediately to the Wilkes
hospital, where extent of the in
jury was determined. It is expect
ed that she will be confined be
cause of the injury for .several
months.
Organization Of
Poppy Day Units
Here Announced
Organization of the corps of
volunteer workers who will dis
tribute memorial popples here on
Poppy Day. Saturdry, May 24,
has been completed hy Wilkes
County Unit of the American Le
gion Auxiliary. The corps, work
ing under the leadership of Mrs.
Halfacre, Poppy Day Chairman,
will be on the streets throughout
the' day offering popnles to he
worn in honor of the World, War
dead, and to aid the disabled vet-
errns and dependent families of
veterans. The response to the call
has been most encouraging.
More than 25 women and girls
have volunteered for Poppy Day
service. All will serve as, unpaid
volunteers. ■ meaning that every
penny of the contributions made
from the poppies win go into the
welfare fund of the Auxflfary. ‘
The following have volunteered
their services through,day
' (Coattnned
by his father
Sr., pastor of Snow Hill Baptist
church. He has a wide reputation
as a minister and speaker and It
is expected that the services will
be largely attended.
Special .song services will be in
charge of the pa.stor. The public
has P cordial invitation to all
services.
Annual Reunion
Colvards June Ut
Near Jefferson
Annual reunion of the Col
vards, one of northwestern North
CrrOlina’8 most widely known
families, will -he held at the home
of Mr. and 'Mrs. Lynch Dent near
Jefferson in Ashe county on Sun
day, June 1. members of the fam
ily here announced today.
A most pleasant occasion is
anticipated and all Colvards and
their relrtlves h,nd r'ends are in
vited to gather to enjoy the day^
A basket dinner spread Picnic
style at noon will be one feature
ot the program to which all are
asked to have a part.
Charlotte Arrest
Solves Burglary In
North Wilkesboro
I
Young Men Held For Break
ing Into C, A. Lowe and
Sons Store Here
his case was supposed to be tried
was not to be tolerated and con
stituted “o'bstruction to justice.’’
Thomas Staten, formerly of
Florida, who previously had been
placed on probation at Durham
on an auto theft charge because
the state had .sentenced him oa
the same ofense, yesteday was sen
tenced by Judge Hayes to 18
months In Lewlstburg. Pa., prison
for -violation of probation. The
probrtion officer said that Sta
ton had been convicted and bad
served nine months for house
, umhla.
one of whom was employed in I Federal court has been in pro-
the engineering department at the ,gre>8 at Wilkesboro since Mon
city hall a few years ago, and a .day and scores of liquor law vio-
16-year-old girl "moll” were'iation cases have been tried. Sen-
turned over by the Charlotte po-1 tences have been meted out by
lice department yesterday t o Judge Hayes in the following cas-
North Wilkesboro officers and a'es: f
determined search was continii-j Chester Shepherd, ye.sr and &
Ing for a former Alcatraz convict day in Atlanta. Oa.. prison for
wanted as their leader in a series I violation of terms of temporary
of safe-crackings in North Caro-j
lina tow'hs, ■ I
Last night the local police were
expecting almost hourly to arrest
Robert Pitts. 30, scar-faced vet
eran criminal only recently re-
lersed from the Federal govern
ment’s grim Alcatraz prison in
San Francisco hay to which he
had been -sent because of his bad
conduct at Atlanta Federal pris
on.
Arrested here were DeArmon
W. Williams, Charlotte young
man said by police to have beer
employed a few years, ago at tht
city hall, Claude Wilson, and La
Rue Chester, the latter a slin
Hickory girl who had been report
ed missing tor several days from
her home. The three. North Wil
kesboro police charge, are im-
-plicated with Hubert Baker.
Charlotte, bootlegger now in jail
at Lenoir, and Pitts, thought to
be in the vicinity of Chrrlotte.
in the burglary of C. A. Lowe
& Softs at North Wilkesboro la.?t
Friday night.
The three were arrested in the
600 block of South Church street
Tuesday night as they sat in Wil
son’s car, a new Dod.ge the de
scription of which had been
broadcast by the city police, by
Officers C. A. Allen and J. R.
Herrin. It devbloped later that
the two officers, members of
CaptPin C. T. Brown’s shift, bare
ly miaeed Pitts who was with the
three -but had stepped into a
(Continued on page eight)
Home -Coming At
Liberty Grove 25to
Annual home coming seiwlw
^,11 he held at Liberty 6^^
tlst church on Sunday, May 25,
according to an rnnouncement
given out here today.
The day’s program will begin
at the Suntf^y school bour and
continue until In the nfternoon
Dinnqr »prea,l picnic atyle will be
a «>eclal feature at nooij and Wl
are requeeted to cam fcaakl* dla-
Ca$h Shortage
Here Tuesday
North Wilkesboro exix-rienc-
ed a shortage of currency Tues
day.
It was May 20 and both
banks cloeed for the day, which f
is a state holiday on the azmi-
veranry of the signins-rof the
Mecklenburg Independettce.
Atdvaace notice of the bank
holiday was not puMished as
u.-wal and the 20th found many
mendianto of rash. It
was semi-monthly pay day at
iioemM the local factorlM and
pag(yiidl efaecks Just had to be
enshgta VoM; of the available
ner tq add to th»t of was exbawWed
1 day'! osjoyindivt
probation.
Van Werl Cartor. 18 months in
niillicoMtP. Ohio, reformatory.
R. G. Cheok. ,8300 fine and
three years nrob.-^tion.
Clifford Vickers, year and a
day in Chillicotlie.
Harmon Sheets, year and a
day in Petersburg. Va.; Fred
.Sheets, year and a day suspended;
Horton Blevins, temporary pro
bation.
I.,awrenoe Trir'ett. year and a
day in Atlanta prison.
Clarence .Anderson. J8 months
Lewi.sburg. Pa., prison.
William Mack Joines, '18
months in Chi'licothe.
Grady Moore. 18 months in
Chillicothe,
Garley Thomas lyowe $50 fine.
R. G. Cheek, sentence changed
to fine of $300.
Young Thomphiiis, 90 days in
jail.
Hrrdin. Simpson, two years in
Chillicothe.
■Coy Prevette, year and a day
in Chillicothe.
Beldon Avon Richardson, year
and a day suspended and placed
On tem.porary probation.
Walter Barker, fined $150 and
placed on probation two years.
Albert Wiles, year and a day
suspended and placed on pro
bation two years.
Morris Crouse, two years pro
bation; Horty iCroiise, year and
a day In Lewisburg; Garnet
Crouse, year and a day In Chil-
licotbe.
Roraolus Billings, year and a
day in Lewisburg.
Sherman Rash, year and a day
in Chillicothe; Alonzo Rash, tern-
porary probation.
Richard Monroe Mathis. 90
days suspended until next term
of court.
Robert Grinton, not guilty.
In addition to those mentioned
in the foregoing accounts pt cas-
es, the following have been {riaced
on either tem'porary or term pro
bation; Grpver Tates, Gene Yates.
James Segraves, Mrs. Victoria
Stnrdivant. James Ed McClnre.
Glenn Holbrook, Charlie Hol
brook. Lonnie Combs, Roby Lan-
don Mitchell, William F re d
Mitchell, Wade Hampton, Leater
Gentry.
With the exceptioni of Cheeter
Shepherd, who waa.jwnt|KR^ all
who were placed on
probation at laat term of