Jultw A.. Rpataeatt, o{
tbi» city, hM Ued hi* notice of
. coadidiMsy wttb the etate board
St tdeottoat as a eaadidate for the
DMhoeratie aoifdiaAR>o for fdd|e
«(4h» Itth-ladlcial dtetrict.
flUng fe^ 4 l5 eesh and
notice' of candliiar wethe fled in
RaMlgh Tuesday by Judye Roa«-
•f this eitr. and Jutlge .T.
WUI Ptee*. Jr., of Marlon. Judge
of the 18th judicial district
Judge Rousseau was elected
to the bench In Norember, 1934.
and has served In manr districts
daring bis eight year term which
-irlll close in December of this
3 WEEKS SESSION—
March Term Of
Court To Begin
On Miurch 2nd
Two Weeks Calendar Crimi-
,al Cases Made Out; One
Week For Ciwil Cases
ON MARCH 2nd
Brier Creek S. C.
Association Meet
Leaders, Workers* Teachers
Asked To Attend Meet
At Shiloh Church
Iws aew desirsyers, the Bailer sad’the OhedwrdI, are Aowa aader
V.' .
Wilkes court for trial of crLa
inal and clril cases will convene
in Wllkesboro on Monday. March
The term will be for three
weeks with the first two weeks
for trlsl of criminal cases and
the last week foC trial of civil
actions
Judge J. H. Clement, of Win-
ston-Saiem, who is presiding ov
er courts of the 17th Judicial dis
trict for the first half of this
year, will preside over the first
two weeks.
Due to the fact that he will be
holding court elsewhere in the
district during the third week of
I eeuit,' Dotemor J.M. Bfoogh-
Jndige 1st D,
_ a.
.osar the thW week of Wllk«
'e6ii4.
The ealehdar of «rl»lnal cases
as announced by sOHcltor Are Ion
B. Hall
in this' newspaper.
A great majority of the crim
inal cases pwding trial or^na-
ted since the last term for crim-
iaal cases in December. Included
On the calendar are five homicide
casas of recent origin and one re-
salting from an appeal a* a for
mer term. The homicide cases
are scheduled for trial on Mon
day and Tuesday of the second
week.
Brier Creek BapMst Associa
tion for Sunday ^hool workers
will meet with the Shiloh Baptist
church on Monday, March 2, at
eight o'clock, war time.
Rev. H. S. Saute, of Danmark.
S. C., Rev. W. C. Tarlton, of
Cliffslde, and Mrs. R. T. Standi,
of Garner, will be guest speakers
and conduct the meeting.
All pastors end hunday school
officers are urged to be present.
As many Sunday School officers,
workers and teachers from each
church who can attend have a
special Invitation to t>* present.
coBstracUsn at the PhUsdelphia navy yards. Thdr keels were Utd as
recently as last September, and the amasing pregreas that has been
made can easily be seen. The veesds win sewt he laaBched, te add
uMfber threat te enemy U heats prewVaf srenaC egr stares.
hut are slightly less strict. In ad.
dltlon to the list of eilglbles for
tires, reghrtored taxicab owners
and farmens may buy new cars
un^er certain condltiona.
SNOWED ALL DAY, TUESDAY—
Ten-Inch Snow
>-and No Sleds
3Divisi(«s0f
Nazis Encircled
Amy Orders Men
A ten-inch saowfaII,4tapeBt of
the season, fell TuSeday, cafia- •
ing mingled joy and disapjwbit- ;
ment among the .j.
There were HW sleip in tawp. >
Merdtanta lui| sold pat dorbMF-
the .Iast mow gad eMtffMjsINh;
T.no.sleds apl,'
ihm snowfeH wi|g so rapid
that highway farces expericaoed
diffienUy. ia kaaping roads clear
«f «aaw :kat Botor traffic was
atalttjmes.
Wilkes saperin-
k«d inikea
The 16th German, army, com-
.prisisg at least three division*
o( 46,000 men.-hpabeen encircled
and smashed helpw Lake Ilmen
In Northwestern Rusela. Moscow
aanounced officially today. ,
Twelve thouiand German dead
already have been counted, a
apaeial communtQne said, and
vast atores of eqnipjnenf seised.
T!» action occurred In the
Siatayg Rnsaa region where red
The plume iaHie sky ever the mu-
aicipal airport at Kaaaaa City is
aet a "twister,** hot the fnaea traO
left by a h^hrflyiBc am^ putsnit
ridy.’ T3m pheh* was taken SO. adir-
ntea after the ilaae' passed ever th*
airpert. Grosuid reading was 1 abevt.
BoardNunJitf 2
Lists flcR Soon
To Be finb^ed
Wilkes selective., eeri^ board
niugber two has 4^lM0hd a list
to be
Ragar rationing will begin in
^the next few weeks, acoording to-
infonnatloB received here.
. .Teaehen will haadle the regiS^
tration of the people and will
give out the first supply of
stamps.
Although details were Iseking
"* today, it was learned that teach?
era of the county syatem may han
dle the registration of families'
and distribute the first supply of
stamps in the aftmnoons next •
week.
C. B. Bller, county saperlnten'^
dent Of schoote, said today that ;
be had received Instmctiotu to
that effect.
Last official information re.
eeived was that each person will
be allowed to bny 12 onneeaper
we^. When rationing heglBS
people who have more than two
pounds of sugar per person will
have to give up stanrpa to equal
the excess sugar on hand before
they receive their stamp supply.
I^pl'e who purchase sagar
must carry the stamps to the ?W-
tailera and no penoil ean yuiph-
ase sugar without the stai^
Alth'ouidt no -official in^
tion trim fpeilTed >rie,
■apply of sugar
tributsd by feachginr
bosi^ ' wl^.,..^
. - . Washington.—^Men ordered, intoi
may be fonnd elsewhere I army under the selective ser-
wil be * inducted the
ashriiiwg aairisB wiltfp trithiMt
letBp until dark ?%«Miay evta-
h>g.
thMsd
sUglKly^j
Tf!^
dioa wBli'
vice system -
same day they are given the aimy
physical examination, selective ser
vice headquarters announced today.
Previously, induction at army
reception centers has followed
about 10 days after examinations.
Selective service officials said the
Rfetkiati 8RM8tage
To Nation and Report On Tbe War
nuiw-
area a»as foBowS;
Tbiwe^fthir diflSoPT’iPf
the l»tk.itfdwtt«.S. (etlW^lfjber
sWrtsK-finitely were smashed, j Maaon Lake Rlchardaon, Cart
the announcement said. ' IBH Davis, Charles Garvey Itell.
Among the boo'y still being col-1 Charlie Glenn Higgins. Ruben
were
listed 1.800,000,Edward Bller. Howard Franklin
'ed, I regret to say, by Amerlc?ns
in and out of public life.
House k 387-7
Anti-Pensi(m
Wrshington, Feb. 23.— High- a‘'ed. llieae exaggerations come
k-ricvu.c I lights of President Roosevelt’s , originally from Axis propagand-
war department had assured them address to the nation tonight: jdlsts; but they have been repeat-
tfcat under the new system, in any' The broad oceans which have
rase waerc immediate induction been heralded in the past as our
would cause pndue hardship, the protection from attack have be-
registrant would be given an im- come tendlem baftleflelds on
mediate furlough to adjust his ci- which we pre constantly being
vilian affairs. j challenged by our enemies
Local selective service boards
wil continue to give “screening" Until our ftow of supplies gives
examinatoins, rejecting ■ the obvi- ut;i elear superiority, we mutt
ously physici unfit men. But to keep cn striking our enemies
speed up the induction procedure wherever and whenever we can
to meet the army’s needs, men rat- meet them, even if for a while
WT WS ^ ^ - J
rounds of ammunition. 14,600 j Laws,_ WllHam Crusoe Owens
l artUlery shells, 4,150 automatic j Herinan Vestal Hutchinson. Os-
(rtfies, 27 radio stations, and hun-, car.'MUrtln Shumat^ Homer^^rm
Washington.—In mood first ang
ry then boisterous, the House roll- meec xne army s neeos, men mi- meci luom, c*ou •» n/i » „
ed up a whopping 389 to 7 yote^^^ aceptable for service, instead we have to yield ground. Actually
yesterday for repeal of pensions receiving a notice to report for we are taking a heavy toll of‘he
for congressmen, making virtually | physical examination by the armed enemy every day that goes by.
certain that the law which had ^ forces, will be notified to report
plagued it for weeks soon would be f^j. induction.
wiped off the statute books. Under the new procedure, offi
cials said, registrants -will have the
same rights of appeal and of per-
soiml appearance before their lo
cal boards as they have at pres
ent.
Your government has unmisr
takable confidence Iq your abillyv
to hear the wore', without flln^-
iing or losing heart. You must, in
tuni, have complete confidence
that your government is keeping
nothing from you except informa
tlon that will help the enemy.
Actually, the vote was on .s
technical motion which will lead
to repeal, but they considered that
the effect was the same and they
eagerly called out a loud "aye "
when the long-sought record vote,
the first to be taken in the House
on the question—began.
The bandfnl erf “no” votes in-
etawled that of Majority Leader
INCormick MaSsa^osetts. The
ethers were Representative Boland
(D), Pa, Casey (D), Msss..
Flaherty (D), Mass., Moser (D),
Mitchell (D), ID., and Rogers
itmlowA
Many, afraid that we nvay be
stirklng our oerks oat, want
oar natlooa] bird to be tamed
Into a tortle. Btit W« prefer to
retain the e*0o as tt is—ffy-
ing high and .striking hard.
The number of onr officers
and men letBhd in the tMtock on
Peart .Hartwr on Peewnbee 7
wms %S40 an^ the wnaher
woumM was 046. Of all tbe
combatant ships based oa Pearl
Harbor — battleeh^, '-iMiavy
rraisers, light cmisers, algi^ft
carriers, deetroyens, snd’iihAia.
rlnes—only three were perma-
nentJy pot oat of oomnUsston.
dreds of trucks, railway cars and
horses. I
The triumphal Russian an
nouncement came at a time when
Spl^v. Horace Pstrlc Wood,
Charlie Burton Jarvis, Bedford
Frank Bauguess, James Roacoe
Byrd, Olen Bowers, Carmel James
the war fortunes of the united | Shepherd. James Everett Hayes
nations were at a low ebb in the)Lewi. Edgar
Pacific. ! vl“ Collins. Claude Bernard Hie
It came too
as Adolf Hl ler
sent his excuses to hb party fol
lowers In Mojuich who. were cele
brating the k2nd anniversary of
the Nazi platform declaration
there
No Passenger Car
Retread In March
Mn. Hanks* 75, Is
Claimed By Death
Mrs. Dossie Lola Ann Hanks,
age 75, died early Tneaday at her
home in the New Life community
of/Walnut Grove township.
Funeral was held Wednesday,
uooB, at Walnut Grove churca near
her home with Rev. T. E. Blevins
in charge- Burial was at Round
Hill chnrch ceraetery.
Sar*rivtng Mrs. Hanks are one
son, WcSanley Hanks, with whom
ehe nu(de hes home; three broth-
en. J. 0., F. G..and W. S. Drew-
sr; a^ one, sister, Mrs. Emma
Crooch. She was a member of a
smR known WiBns family, betng
a rfMAiter of &s 1^ Felix and
Sart^ Wilea Brewer.
Nine Jap Ships
Sent To Bottom
By U. S. Airmen
Vt'ashington. — The score of
American warplanes lighting in
the Netherlands Indies was
placed by the War,' Department
yesterday at nine or more Japa
nese ships snnk, 24 damaged am!
48 enemy planes destroyed since
January 1.
To this toll, six medium Jap
bombers were believed added
yesterday as a result of a raid on
a Japanose-held airdrome at Den-
pasar off the island'|of Bali. .A
formatlffh of flying fortress bora
bera executed *hls raid, scoring
several direct bits and returning
to their homo baae^ unscathed.
' Exrtoded Bali Blow
The summary qt losses inflicted
on the foe wa« given in a com
munique which grid it represefft-
eed incomplete es'imatea. Officials
said it excluded full returns from
the air and sea battle of Bali and
all blows dealt by the navy and
by torsos of other united nations
•tko HiffriM Ttaad Is fonffli'
i««ta4 gra«4»4dn^,^**'-
los« Mata tor it dates hMk to
MM.
1 know that I speak for -'he
mass of the American people
when I say that wo. 'reject the
turtle' policy anf^' will contihne
To date—and including Pearl
Harhorr-ws have destroyed con-
j^ilerrihly.'. mors Japanese planes
turtlejwucy an«-^ wiranne, ^ fiestroyerf of oara
increasingly the polh^T of cairy-?. ?
Ing the war to theiffumny la ils-1 - - .
Raleigh. — There will be no
rubber for passenger car retreads
for 'he remainder of,« February
and'the enthre ' month of March,
T; ^ i^bnison, state rationing ad-
mlnWtttor) said yesterday in an-
iiOtmciug hew strte rationing
qan*ae. v •
For the Iasi week in February
local rationing boards may Issue
oertlifeates for fetreailng 2.874
tires tor trucks only.
gins, Fred Bynum Byrd. John Al
len Parller. Royal West, Willie
Lee Keilah. William Pltztie Rlcb ■
ardson. Claude Eugene Johnson.
Buel Everette Sparks. Dymps*
Roten. Fornia Dock Carson,
Theodora Callofvay Bruguess.
Harry Martin Griffith, Ell Grimes.
William Na'han Sloop, Minton
McKinley Handy, George Thomaa
Blledge, Cicero ■ Hdll, Hester
Prank Blackburn, Cecil Otis
Brown and Walter Martin Elmore
Sea Disaster One Of
Worst In U. S. Annals
possible
On January fl ef year |- cctt
certain dshni e i;oa1s of produc
tion for airplanee. :t«aks..;:gttH.
and ships. Tbe JMi prop^gaAd
isU called thffm fantsSttB. S6i|tgh\
tant waters—ps fffT, as
from our horns grpuads
We already have a large num
ber of hom^iw and pursuit ^ J 7destroys
planes, manned by ***' nearlytwo moathf. later and after fttbetaJ ,. .. .nA the 6Jl8S>ton-^igh-
lots, a-careful surv^Tof the progwta ^ Hhdoraa ameadjd raUn*. ^ed
tact with the the fffiHS>v - - — - - - . .. . .. .-j-?,—wa «iitt *„» Pniinx were aaaoou w *
Attff^oaaaiids of
Waahingtorr.—One of the worst
sea disasters in United States na
val history—loss of a destroyer, a
sunply ship, and 189 officers and
„jen_was announced yesterday ^
^^/ratraadSgTote for March
will be 3 037 trpek tires. on tte ^e-lashed coast of New
ufavdsh Ti«wl itr^‘5F6 7,-ifoundwiwl-
rsr."
lie
h
les
weet Pacific-
American —troops -*hre today . In
that area engaged 1|}^ operation*
not only in the air but on the
ground as well.
Immediately after this war
s'arted the Japanese fprees moved
down on either side rf the Phil
ippines to numerous points south
of them—thereby completely en-
circlius the Istadds ' from north,
south, east and .wes*. •' t
Itf Donald Nelson and others
charged with reiqmnaihility fo.f
our prnductlott; I eaa~teil yoii
that these goals will he sitamed.
can’may no* ^ deTlvered with ter PoUw to Rieces
Wtreaded tires « suoh tires were by wW sad wave
Presence of snn spets Infinitely
interferffs with transiulfSiM of
lud wlto adeordlitg tojitt Boffid tfrabopMrtimdona
taffh- wttdfy '
the u. 3- Nffvirf Otaeryotory.
It is that eoaiirieto enr.trcie-
meat,with oofffirof 6i the tfr by
Japaamie laMVItalta aircnrft,
which Has poStaMtad l» t*sm
oMuUag' ewhefatafal- reinforoe?
ffitafs of msa'. Siffid.'ntatarWN
ta the ataltat tUsr.i'iHsrt at the
Ptkff^fteea.
Here mro tluxiB h||d> parpome
for every Ameldaut: I,- We
shall noC stop woglt tar a. s4n-
pde day* 9* We siiffil smt detasad
spodffl qpediia pIrtvfleFe
or tMlvoirfafcee tar amir Oae ffposs*
or oceopatibn. 8. We whan glre
OB cmaswNtaseea aad KodtCy fhe
rontiiie of oar lives u tmr eoa*-
try oaks ns to do eo.
inotlnted after mmary 19. an
less. Wtobaaer hto W‘flcetefor
purchase of the number of iO:
OBt tllO "YBlltclBa
Reds Recall
Jap Envoy
, And even hi these times of
‘wholesale losses of men and ships
on the high seas all over the
world, naval veterans here were
olrriOBsly deeply saddmiod by the
heroic hot mostly futile struggle
put op by the meh «f the Ibmxtum
and Pollux after timir ships ran
agruund in the storm.
Never-hetora bavr we been
eelled apoa for snofa a' prodigioua
London.—The Pagil-radio was
heard by the Enfted'-'FraBt Hsten-
isg poet yeetetagf hroadeaatlng a
report that Cbiiisliln*ln BetteUnln,
’Riumian ambaaaidor^' to J^ipan*.
had been recalled .pft, the gropnd
Gumbtril—thor say Mtat Jimson
ia s cenffmed t^ophile. i
Hostotter-^ «*y have been at
CiM bot I tSink m
4rteks ft drop now.
Iso little time In which to do 4b
^mueh: ^ -4?
^ '•Avenfer.*’ ‘‘Wttjea**'i
The oansequdMM fid the atUek “MarUier*' hofd
M. t^lffURIWitad bf.'elvUlitaff for
ealled apon for snofa a'prodigious that he would
effort. Never before have we hr* rttoA t?^>kyo. 1-
nfewest seaman freffh tifffff t»*n-
Ipg fflatloo, they (tl» n|
!foftar>.;,.lffngW .0*®
end A e«
^'fft peirtobil'
r' ffi th* NhTjr lDMa.^
■ ' -■ '■■■
K»
not Uk^y return to .Tokyo.
•nir^ris •»« tut
faotiAt-JffMBWe :\ml* wstatior
tiota
Application of Htnostone
farmlands of WHk.s. epunty 1*
Shown in a sta'e report received':
by Lawrence Miller, 'secretary of J
the Wilkes county AAA commit
tee. .
The report shows that 6,824.
of limestone had been ordered :»j
•his county through February 1* I
as compared with 1,388 tons on,
the same date last year..
Figures for the ent.re ^tdtoj
show that 146.189.6 *ong of-j
limestone and 7,163 tons of*
phosphate had been ordered oUjj
through,February 16 as comparedP
with 75'778 tons of lIme8ton#|
and 5,062 'ons of phoaphate at?
this time last year.
E. Y. Floyd, North CaroUn»|
AAA executive officer, said tWsj
material was mrde available
farmers through the Trlple-J
grant-of aid program and Ihatj
costs of furnishing It were d«
ducted from payments due til
fanner under the Agrlcnltur
Conservation Program
"By using thoM materials
legnmes and grfftoes,” he
"farmers are avalHhg 'hems
of an opportunity .40 atrtff fof
tty in their soil and at the
time earn extra ' credl‘8 toi
soil - building practice payment
under the conaervatlon program^
Mr. Floyd pointed out that
toining nj*rogen from the.
through use of legamee is:
uUwly fmporuet .wt this: .
since store? of conunerclal
tra'es are bring eaied hh*
focture of monitions. Udij
fiinteetone and phio^hate
ly Increase growth ' 'Of 'lejfil
he added. . .
He nid the thine, fo appV
to eeed lespedaia, and
men to secure their suj^pt
this popular l^i
as poetdhle. ■ '
DurtniTiha hast ;
OMPnofmataly in
elOgtaad in.. th«i.£te' wss;.
to wfatffr Iffgnmeo and, matj,
1,000,909 aerto to Btheo'tei
and gi»mm.
.if,