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iMobcow.—Rasslan troops have
repnlmd a gigantic German-Fin-
nlsh offensive extending the en
tire length of the Ruaslan-FInn-
Ish border and have cut off ad
vance German tank columns In
the direction of Minsk, a Soviet
war communique reported early
today.
The communique, reviewing
the eight days of operations, ad-
miUed the loss of five important
|j , . Lithuanian cities—
.^iSuystok. Grodno, Brest-Lltovsk,
Vilna and Kaunas.
It claimed, however, that the
Red troops and air force had suc
cessfully smashed German plans
for a “lightning” invasion that
woQld capture Kiev, capital of
the vital Ukraine and Smolensk,
250 miles southwest of Moscow,
within a week.
Attacking the German high
command co.mmjinique of Sunday
as “boastful hurabUg,” the Rus
sian communique claimed that
the Germans had lost 2,500 tanks,
about 1,500 airplanes and more
than 30.000 prisoners.
The communique disclosed that
the Germans and Finns opened a
new 700-mile front from the Bar
ents Sea. at the northern tip of
Finland, south to the Gulf of Fin
land.
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VOL. XXXIV, No. 28
WA'Y, JUNE 30, 1941
WPA Offices Here
Move On Tuesday
To Winston-Salem
Three District Offices In The
State Abolished In WPA
Reorganization
Berlin Reports
Successes
A tVPA curtailment program
now in effect throughout the na
tion comes close home tomorrow
with the removal of the district
WPA offices here to Win,3'ton-Sal-
em. ,
The nine districts in the state
will be reduced to six, resulting
in the merger of the seventh dis
trict here with the sixth with of
fices in Winston-Salem into the
fourth district of 17 counties end
with district office in Winston-
Salem.
C. M. Crutchfield, of this city,
head of district seven, will head
the new district with offices in
Winston-Salem. The change takes
place Tuesday, July 1.
The district effide here has
been operating with a personnel
of 27. many of whom will l>e re
tained on ihe personnel of the
Winston-Sa em district office.
WiySESBORO-THffifi OF A CENTURY AGO
$1.50 In the State — $2.Q0;6iit of ^tate
36 '
A '
Enter Sei^e On
July E^eentb
Board Number .One To Fntw
nish 15 and Board Num
ber Two"*fr1h July'^"
Berlin.—One German mechan- i county office will be ma;n-
_zed column was rep-orted early jtained hero. George Forester,
todav to 1)0 charging headlong be- ; county supervisor, R. G. Fawcett,
yond Minsk into the heart of construction engineer. Miss 11a
White Uuscsia and toward Mos- Holman, assistant district super-
cow some 400 miles distant while visor of the Community Service
another pounded past Luck on program, and one .social worker
the way to Kiev, capital of the vvill be retained here,
fertile Ukraine. j Uounties in the larger district
Military experts here were j (,e Rockingham. Guilford
Wilkes county will furnish tbu
army 36 men through the selec
tive service act In July, It vtm
lerrned today from the two draft
boards.
Board number one with head
quarters in Wllkesboro will send
15 to Fort Bragg on July 18.
Board number two, which has
office in the city hall building
here, will send 21 on the seme
date to Fort Bragg.
This represents the largest sin.
gle call from Wilkes 'but It is
understood that there will not be
other calls' during July.
The draft boards will be busily
engaged with the second regis
tration Tuesday but the ta.sk of
sending out questionnaires is
continuing t o progress. Both
boards have long since passed the
halfway mark in local order num-
bens with mailing of question
naires, a number of which are be
ing mailed almost daily.
Men who have reached the age
of 21 since the first registration
October 10. 1940, will register
with their respective draft
boards on Tuesday, July I.
Military e-xpeii)" „ui ,,,
broaching the que.stiou whether I {^^.^ndolph. Stokes, I'orsyth. Oav-
Wue fted army had enough , jd^on. Surry. Vadkin. Davie. Row-
'^strength left to prevent the Ger- Al'.egliany. Wilkes. Iredell,
man advance from becoming a Ale.xander, Caldwell. Watauga
(and -^she counties. The district
The claims that Minsk, capital ^ ^-iH include all the counties for-
of White Russia, had been skirted . „,erly served from the office here
and Luck left behind in the twinig^cept Avery.
drives skirting northern and: xorth Wilkseboro, Albemarle
southern ends of the Pripet ^ Smithfield are the three
marches followed the high com- L^^ng in the state to lose district
mand’s release of the long-await-| offices. ' _ ^
ed series of communiques on , __
, “rz■” iKiwanians Hear
^ The communiques said German
divisions had sniashed
Women Of Moose
Organized Here
; '
Chapter Instituted On Sun
day Afternoon; Officers
For Year Are Named
Here is an interesting picture of a scene in of Wilkcsboro, which is now the Mack Moore
Wilkesboro, ca'utal of “The State Of M i;kes’\ farm. Mr. Benbow is shown in a buggy and is
taken ab'iiit a third of a century ago. Place of
the picture was the intersection of Main
street and looking nerth along the street on
the east side of the courthouse with the Tory
Oak in the 'backg-qpnd. R. L. EngUmd, auc
tioneer who is yet a tive in the real-estate
business, is shown standing on a hack and is
anrnnuncing the sale of the Benbow farm west
hr 'ding d map of the lands t,i be sold. The
late J. R. Henderson, father of J. R. and J. B.
Henderson, of Wilkesf oro, is driver of the
'•■vb f ~4 whji^ auctioneer is standing. The
rn T)«iia cf that date is 'H a
W*lVf«ilv’rn — -.
in the middle of the picture. N. O. Smoak
and J. B. Henderson were leading the b n".
'Irme of thoso at various places in the picture
'*c!i’ded N. B. Smithey (wearing white vest),
the late B. S. Call, J. T. Hulbard, father of T.
S. Hubbard, Sewell Webster on pony, Wm. A.
Stroud, W. E. Minton, ;7ie late L. M. Pharr,
’other of R, B. and \IL-E. Rb^r, F. C. (Tom)
Forester, and others who could be identified
by older residents. This is a reproduction of
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panzer aivisions I
through the Baltic front to the,
Minsk-Moscow road, surrounded; v
two entire Russian armies, and Delegates Report On Kiwan-
plunged through itus.sian-ocfu-[ International Conven-
pied Poland to the Ukrainian i
frontier.
The operations were said
, jTal J. Pearson
Of Convention. Opens store Here
tion Held In Atlanta
to
have cost Russia 4,107 plane.-,
'■|^33 tanks, more titan 40.000
^^tured men and vast quantities
of war Dooty.
Reports of the Kiwanis Inter-
nationrl convention held in .■M-
litnta were features of the Ki-
Iwaiiis program Friday noon
Tnl Pea’-son. "ho h ‘‘ ' 'e"
in i."sine.ss here for s“\er't yu-, ■
and is •> widely ' 'town merchan*
has opened a wholesale s^oro i”
one of the Pearson Brothers
buildings on Tenth .-treet.
The new store, whic'.i is now
open for Inisiness, will carry r
full and complete line of grocer-
Uecil Adamson was program iej, fionr, feeds, etc., at lowest
chairman and he pre,-ented Miss prices consistent with prevailing
_ J Qjj, Scroggs, D. J. Carter and market conditions.
Is Set By Roosevelt Paul Cragan for reports.
Year’s Draft Quota
R
Mr. Pearson invites hU many
formen customers to visit his
place of business, inspect the
new lines of merchandise and
onsult him a'>out D-eir merchan
M-«a noftd’. .-Ml patrunage will he
appreciated.
On Friday and Saturday
The county health offices in
the roiiiThouse will be closed or
both Friday aiul Saturday, Jul.
■Itli and .bill.
Banks Will Close
July *^ourth, Fifth
•u old phptograph kept by R. L. Elngland.
Both lanks here will be closed
on Thursday and Friday, July
4th and 5th. it was announced to
day.
Advance notice D given in or
der that no inconvenience may
result.
Govemor’.s I*roclaniat*on
“Whereas, J-.-.j 1941. a
State and National holiday, falls
on Friday: and
“Whereas, a request has been
(Continued on page eight)
Hyde Park, N. V. —The tem-
Miss Lois Scroggs reported she
was impressed with bigne.ss of
porarv
White House gave a clear ]^iv^■J^nis International. She
indication yesterday that selec
lees would be kept in military
training only a year, then be per
mitted U) re-enter private Lfe.
A presidential e.xecutive order,
signed Saturday and released
ye'sterday. .set at 900,000 the
number of men who may be in
ducted into the land force.^ of the
United States in the year starting
Tuesday. July 1. This is the max
imum permitted under the selec-1 officers,
live service la w. I speeches
joyed the visits to the big stores
of Atlanta, the teas given in hon
or of the wives of Kiwanis. the
luncheon at the East Lake Coiin-
tiy Club, the Barbecue and all
eise connected with the conven
tion.
Dan J. Carter gave a su timary
report of the entire program, be
ginning with the registration and
going through to the election of
He summarized t h e
of the Intern,itional
W liiam D. Hassetl. the Presi-1 president and other outstanding
dent's secretary, informed report-! speakers. He reported that our
ers that the War Department ex
pected to ask the selective
tem for new inductees “as the
training period of men inducted
during the current fiscal year ex
pires.”
Stores To Close
On July Fourth
Hoey
Following the usual custom,
stores and other business houses
in North Wilkesboro will be clos
ed on July Fourth, a • national
^^The^ holiday for Friday, July
fourth, it Is understood.
affect the half holiday adopted by
stores for Wednesday afternoon
and those which have been clos
ing on Wednesday afternoons
will he closed on Wednesday aft
ernoon this week as usual.
Revival Under W^y
At Moravian Falls
A series of reviral services be
gan on Sunday morning at Mora-
Ln Falls Methodist church.
^ pastor. Rev. J. M. Green,
g assis’ed by Rev. A. C.
presiding elder, who will
to the preaching. .
A cordial Inyltatlon Is extended
lU to ottsiid all the services.
own Ex-Governor Clyde
made the outstanding speech ot
the convention.
Paul Cragan. spoke on high
lights of the convention. He was
impres.sed with the courtesy of
the people of Atlanta, the uni
form goodness of the food m at
the eating pieces, the number of
crates of Coca-Cola drunk from
dav to dav by the convention, the
publicity given by the press wa-
phenominal. from this he had
prepared a large scrap hook of
clippings about the convention,
he Wi « impressed by the brogue
used ty the delegates from the
different parts of our country. He
stated every division excelled in
some one or more things. The
Carolina,s district excelled in
three things as follows: 1. the at
tractiveness of its ladies. 2. the
number of delegates present, and
3 the outstanding speaker m the
person of Clyde R. Hoey. The
representatives from a number of
the districts were highly and col
orfully decorated with hats, high
booU, white boots, arm bands,
canes, pilgrims aprons, etc.
In the business session prior to
the program summaries of com
mittee reports from the directors’
meeting on TTiursday night were
read by T. E. Story, secretary.
It was announced that the next
luncheon meeting will be' at
12:05 Thursday instead of Friday
ot this week.
Eldridge Speaks
At District Meet of
Masons Held Here
State Grand Master Says
Masonry Will Be Revived
In Conquered Countries
new chapter was admitted
into the Order of the Loyal Or
der of Moose on Sunday when
the Women of the Moose chapter
number 4 76 was Instituted here
with a large cla.-6 for the institu
tion.
The institution was conducted
by May Sanderson, of the Acad
emy of Friendship, Charlotte, who
took the place ot Mrs. Goldie
Smith, grand dean, who was un-
!able to attend on account ot ill-
J ness.
Mrs. Sanderson w.-'s assisted by
Graduate Regent M r s. Bessie
Lineberry and Senior Regent Mrs.
F. Pearl Smith, ail of Charlotte.
After institution and initiation
the following officers were se
lected to sei-ve during the follow
ing year: Mrs. Jane Mount, grad
uate regent: Mrs, Vera Gaddy,
senior regent: Mrs. Annie Bess
Hudson, junior regent: Mrs. Clara
Ca=hion. chaplain: Miss Vivian
Kerbaugh, recorder: Mrs. Gladys
,). t.. mil tn, lr„ of Konda,
King of Health in the county’s
contest among' 4-H clubs, is a
most j-ctivc club meniiier, as
these pictures show. Above is
shown the l.’S-yeor-otd boy with
|.i. father and County Agent J.
B. Snipes as they inspect the
com project being carried out
by J. E„ Jr. The com Is of
verj' uniform growth, Wilkes
tVmnty WhRe variety and with
a favorable .season will yield
about 80 bushels. At the time
of this picture drought had re
tarded growth of the com to
, some extent. Below Is shown
the county agent and the club
member as they inspect his
broiler project. Some of the
4.50 broiler * Just, ready for mar-
ket are shown in this interior
view of the brooding house. J.
E-, Jr., said he wipected to
make a net profit of ®40 from
the chl*eM.—
Dwi^t Nichole, ‘
Masons of the 33rd dfstrict
gathered in North Wilkesboro
Thiir.=day afternoon and night for
a district meeting. iveniauKn,
John W. Nichols, district dep- of Lenoir, treasurer: Mrs-
uty grand master, presided. In Bessie Clo Kerbaugh. guide: Mrs.
the afternoon an officers confer- p^ye Hayes, assistant guide; Mrs.
ence was held under direction of L,orraine Cook, sentinel: Mrs.
John H. Anderson, of Raleigh, yj Buchanan, argus.
gri nd secretary. Dr. C. P. Eld-
ridge. of Raleigh. ma»t worship
ful grand ma.ster, was also pres
ent.
A general meeting of Masons
of the district was held in the
evening in the new lodge hall in
the Reins - .Sturdivant building.
Grand Master Eldridge was the
principal speaker. He spoke, very
interestingl.v of the principles ot
Masonry ?nd pointed out how
Hitler in Europe ha,? clo.sed all
Masonic lodges i n conquered
countries. “What is had for Hitler
must be good for the people.” he
said.
He predicted that Masonry
wuold be revived in Europe and
that it would survive, grow and
continue to be a very beneficial
organization.
Officers present for the rtter-
noon conference were given a
banquet dinner by the district
deputy grand master and ladies
of the Eastern Star assLted in
Tlie meeting was carried out in
a UIO.H excellent manner and
closed with a buffet lunch and
social period.
Meetings of the new or.ganiza-
tion will be held on the second
and fourth Fridays each month.
Moose Picnic And
Weiner Roast July 1
North Wilkesboro lodge of
lyoyal Order of Moose will hold
its first annual picu’c and weincr
roast a t Pine Rid.ge picnic
grounds on highways 16 and 18
near Moravian Falls Tuesday,
July 1, seven p. m.
All members and their fami
lies, ?lso the women’s chapter
and their friends and families,
are cordially invited to attend.
Those who do not liave means of
transportation are asked to be at
tb*) Moose Hall on C street at
6:30 p. m.
serving.
Practically all lodges were rep- QaraCfeS To CloSC
resented in the district meeting, _ —
which was described as being very
successful. Among the visitors
In
Friday, Saturday
order to give workmen
was Prof. Carr Wright, of Boone, brief holiday vacation. 12 garages
district deputy grr.nd master of' and auto parts dealers will be
the’40th district, and a Mr. Red-Jclosed on both Friday and Sal
mon, of Snow Hill.
Emp'oym«nt Office
Closes Fourth, Fifth
The North Wilkesboro branch
office of the North Carolina Em
ployment Service will be closed
on both Friday and Saturday,
July 4th and 5th.
Claimants required to report
on either Friday or Saturday are
asked to report on Monday, July
6.
Mr. and Mrs. Edd P. Gardner
had aa their guests last week-end,
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Kinzer'and
son, W. R. Jr., of Mt. Airy.
day, July 4th and 5th.
The firms who today issued the
double holiday closing notice
were Yadkin Valley Motor com
pany, Motor Service Sales com
pany. GadJy Motor company. An
te Parts company, Wilkes Motor
Supply, Landis Tire and Parts
company, Barber’s Garage,
Wilkes Auto Sales, Bill Johnson
Garage, Williams Motor company,
Tull Motor company.
Wrecker service will be main
tained as usual at all times.
Next Cripple clinic wtU be held
at the Wilkes hospital on Thurz-
day, July 16.