>n Come Off Press
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Local M^^M^ve
For Beiio(Hida lsl«
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' Among tbO focsl n
liare >«ft WU^^octlnty 4ritlitij
,ijle DMt feir. im formwork, on
|Ot«himont pr9^ts ^ Bermuda
’♦ere: .eJydo ICwniBtJi
iMMihoniT, Rkyaa^ 'iWlea, ftMler
^lier, John iVette Jr., and *d-
ward Woods.
Jakli J. Oeviny, acttag pnblk! printer, and LeM Hendersen, price nd*
■Mrtialir (rigfct). the first sheet of ration cards leaving tfas
prawn at the government prinUng office In Washington. The prlatlug M
war rsttw beaks No. 1 is the biggest government printing Job in histerj.
The books, if stacked, woald form a tower IS miles high.
THIS CITY GETS 12,981 GALLONS IN MONTH—
Huge Quantities Of Liquor
Billed To Dealers In Wilkes
PASS RESOLUTION—
CityCoi^cHIn
Meeting Tuesday
Ask Rood Dam
RguresFor One
Whtdesaler Only
Part Of Amount
Gsdloiu Bill«d To One
Dealer At Purlear By One
Wholesaler In Month
Have Lisfhts So
Blackout Can Be
In One Minute
By order of Theodore Johnson,
state chaiman of civilian de
fense, all lights most be so ar
ranged that they can be blacked
oat at a moment’s notice, W.H.
McElwee, chairman or the coun
ty civilian defense council, said
today.
(By W. T. HOST, in Greensboro
Daily New*)
Kaleigh.—Greensboro and High
PUlat, twin metropolises of the
state's cosmopolite county, Guil-
fotd, jlptnppd W P«
cent tedjWk bociUet dpsw^ fur
TO PAY FOR WAR-
Treasury Adcs
DouUe Tax
Point Out Benefit and Say
Power Could Be Used To
Make War Materials
Commissioners of North Wilkes-
boro in March meeting with Mayor
K. T. McNiel passed a resolution
asking the construction of a flood
control dan? on the Yadkin river.
The resolution, directed to the
senators and representatives of
North Carolina in congress, stated
that power which could be generat
ed from a dam could be used to
manufacture war materials or in
other industries.
Protection the dam would af
ford agricultural lands and'indus
tries in the Yadkin valley was al
so pointed out in the resolutions.
The board, composed of A. ,P.
Kilby, Ralph Duncan, H. M. Hut
chens, R. G. Finley and J. R. Hue,
transacted routine business for the
month.
ii^eadway
Honikide - Cabea'.Tj^Be^''Biipid
Ffrat rf N«*t' Wwbfc*, Jbdfe
J. H. Cl«tne«t Pranding
10B%
Vo|.
ramtewK^ayMBl^iiNiffietioa
• Despite the deep , snow which
dings tenacioasly tn out country
sides and to many of the county
roade, supafior court in Wilkesboro
has been moving along very weH
this week and many minor cases
have_been tried*
Judge .1. H. Clement is presiding
and Solicitor Avakm E. Hall isj
prosecuting the docket. Trial of
criminal cases will continue through
next week and the~1hird week will
be for trial of civil cases with
Judge Leff D. Johnson, of Clinton,
presiding.
Six homicide cases, five of which
originated since the last term in
December, will be called for. trial
during the early part of next week.
Following were judgments in
cases tried this week:
L. B. Howard, violation weights
end measures law, verdict not guil-
Beoeml w«
oomjfimp'- eiimfoyf Apinivivimawi-
1^ TOO people^ aisk Thmaffiqr «t
Bnoob '.HriKlv ^ -
meot anhoMimii tlw 100 pes^
oOiit' emiiltemak«g.anidBr" Im»
■ f-
Tho^aetlcm of sjlm easyfaqroee
wSm' mthwlg vo^mta^ aoA
SUPfiku well die aptadM
pmtriotita of dMoe yaople.
Tbfa iedm Unit kKt«aMi44daat
in tbto cbnusaink^ to cJatw this
Meo(dk ■
B^iqjjloyeea of Vllkea Hoolnry
Mills hMt«.'WhtMNm eoweptlosi,
supported every patriotic move-
meut under why locally.'’
U'^Canididllkte
Tiipi X** Boone Rereale Many
^ InlfrBitmg Facte Ab^mt
thU Week’s Blixunl
ty.
Hege FerguSon, colored, assault
with deadly weapon, judgment con
tinued until next term on payment
of cost Hill Allen, white man in
dicted on the same charge, was ac
quitted.
Tru^ bills charging murder were
returned against John Goss, 'Wil-
nier Byrd and Robert^ Chatham in
separate cases.
Arnold Gilreath, yiolation pro-
MARCH 9 Tf} 14—
Girl Scoot Wedc
To Be (^rved
In N. W^esboro
Emkibit of Work By Girl
Scottto Will Bcr Sboum
On Monday Afternoon
BCpraentatlye W. O. Bnrgin
of l/oxtugloii, who has filed as
a candidate for aaoUter term in
oongreas from the eighth dis-
tilce. BepraeatatlTe UerglB'g
auBOanoemeat as a candidate
for (he Democratic nomteathm
wa« mede In > Washingtoa
Tmaday.
Girl Scouts hew wiU observe
Girl Scout Week March 9 to 14,
it was announced here today.
A special feaiture-Cf the obser
vance wm be an mdiiHt of work by
diri Scoots, wkieh vrill be in the
hibition law, four months cm wads bqfldkig of the.-Pres
stispended.
Averv PilHngton, op«mti« q»r
' ’ itlis mph
bytprian rimreh on. M(mday_ ^tarj-
noph, March ' —‘ — -
iht-
IN WASHINGTON—
Bnrgin FUffi As
C^didate For
'(^ngress In 8th
botlited communities tn nortil-
weeWrh North Garoliiia today
wow still digging oat from the
heevy sadwfaU and OUssardMoiu
day, Monday night aad 'Fueadky.
With bfialpment needed to q>ea
the main highways in the moue-
talnfe, andnr yesterday had liot
beea cleared from many -or the
secondary roads In Wllkoe and
opening of the county school iy»-
tem was postponed until Monday
I Of next week. North 'Wilkesboro
schools reopened Wednesday. .
Snow here ranged In de^b
from 11 to 13 inches. In Boons
the average depth was reported
at about 22 inches but that waa
not the half of It — the heavy
winds Monday night and Tuesday
drifted the snow to great depths
in many places, closed the roads '
and isolated the people.
The same held true for Ashe
and Alleghany counties and fOr
practically all the mountain aec-
tlon of the state.
Highway 421 to Boone waa
opened at seven o’clock 'Wcdhot*
day evening.
eagiheer Zeb
Highway divtsibB
V. Stewart paffido*
filly directed the
B^een tltem, Grmnriiow ^
have been receiving
WashiiiitMi^lfaiiob S. —- Secre
tary of tiie .lSwMmry Heniy jSfor
Jr.,
that krill'
High Point
about "IfiOO gaflona monthly from
joat one of the 2,600 liquor whole
salers in the country. This one
house, which furnishes a sort of
barometrical basis of calculations,
untfl December, 1941 had been the
only dealer whoae figures are
available for public use. It is _
one of the biggest whisky coi^r^ another $2,M2,002 000 more a year
tioDB of the country^lmt i extendinif the Social Security
be pretty good to furnish North payments.
t?t^site^^or‘*N:Ser^2^, ^ So-
gallons of whisky,’afid Tor Decern-|■C'8l becumy payments
ber- brag drinking month of the
genthan
cheaper to win frian to lose, today
asked Congress to double income
taxes of persona earning under
$10,000 a year and increase other
levies to raise an additional $7.-
600,000,000 annually in war reve
nues.
The Treasury Secretary recom
mended that Clongress also raise
INDIES
wMC 5
Sng’
ills-'
year, it sold to dry territory 69,
976 gallons. Of the November ship
ments, Greensboro got 4,415 gal-
loas and High Point 2,836. But
these towns dropped dizxily in De
cember. Greensboro used only 1,-
876 gallons of this one wholesaler’s
■product and High Point only 1,026
galkms.
Again should it be sard that
these illicit operations in the state
represent only one foreign liquor
house. There may be many such
sales made by other big dealers.
A new co npany has come into the
utafts’a illegal liquor liqfior com-
' mSK«. One company sold 1,423
in December, but these are
hat two of the 8 600 companies in
tlie eoontry which coidd be sup-
North (Carolina.
jAfcry gallon sold and reported
hytjila company came to dry terri-
figiy in North Carolina. North
Hm*fiboro, which struggled along
vfe'f,060 gallons in November,
12,981 gallons in Decem-
,, 'TNro dealers compete in that j
-Witodf dry county which voted
jafaihst the repeal of the 18th
yytwijlimmt in the ratio of 1,980
4,536 against it.
wnkesboro’s population in
. i{4f ina 4,478. If it Qhiminstc^
. the reader any it should be s.iid
w \thki Purlear in Wilkes county, with
-t"* pi^alstion of 50, received for
PSbeiriSer 2 392 gaflona and Cycle
tadkin, neighbor county, got 2,-
^XM7 from this one dealer whose
•^A^^wiewta counties totaled
WjnS. Cy^ has a population of
lift Htla, a Sorry town, uaed
item tBtt one hoose 1496, and Er-
'j^er, nriB sabtiih of Lexing,0n,
7,470 gaflsns few December.
■ Tbis s *g a rise over November,
Wllkk vied 6.7M.
Troy, Montgwmery county, with
ii 1,861 population, reasalned firm.;
It jmmstimes vailea reeeiras, 1^^
^sw senders. And its intake Is.
a around 6/WO
i. For Koerabar tt ****^[]j||
would in
crease Federal revenues by more
than $9,000,000,000 a year and
reach the goal of $27,000,000,000 j ■ , . .i,
, T. -J * T ,*. • u- today, and so imminent was thn
by President Roosevelt in his , , ., j.... j...
A m"ss movevent of all the of-
fice.s And foreign assets of the
Dutch In the Bast Indies to the
Dutch West Indies, within the
United-State®’ Carribean defense:
orbit, was disclosed last night as
the Japanese were fast overrmi-
nlng the last Dutch strongholds
in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Meanwhile on Java the Japa
nese have thrown back *he allied
line in some' seetor^ In their first
advance of consequence aince the
beginning of the invasion, the
Dutch command acknowledged
budget message.
Morgenthau described - the stiff
slice into the earnings of all
Americana to the House Wavs and
Means Committee, which will draft
the new bill. He said:
"The new taxes will be severe,
and thftir impact will be felt in
every American home.
"War is never cheap; but . . . it
is a million times cheaper to win
than to lose . . . Our task is to
make the tax program an instru
ment of victory.”
Morganthau said that the nation
island’s peril I bat the defenders
already had completed most of
the job of demolishing all upon
It that would be of value to the
enemy.
Alliw Fight On
But stripped ‘hough they were
of much of the Dutch fleet
strength and oatnumbered aloft
and aground, the allied forces yet
fought savagely on—holding the
offenaive in their unbroken ag-
greosive spirit, tragically un.^ble
though they were to hold - It In
fact.
The move to the Dutch Wea*
can halt inflation only by coupling, Indies announced by the Aneat
the steep taxes with complete ra
tioning of consumer goods. He
satdr •
"The sooner we come to
plete rationing the better.”
news agency embraces arrange
ments endorsed by the Nether-
mpfiths
Tended oil ^IQfifnent »f $50 five,
driver's licera related.
Oorge Shew, .operating car
intoxicated, four nionthg.
Gordon H. fkihier, operating carj
while intoxicated, four months sns-j
pended on payment of $80 fine,
'driver’s license revoked.
Conley Faw, larceny of meat, 12
months.
Gwvn Bussel, reckless driving,
.oravpr for judgment continued on
payment of $14 for Charlie John
son.
Frances Jarvis, violation prohi
bition law, four months susoended
on osvment of $60 'fine and cost.
Bill Smith, larceny of tires, 18
n'onths.
T. G. Whittington, operating
car while intoxicated, four months
suspended on payment of $60 fine
snH Payment of $60.26 for D., S
XVhHlev.
Ijawrence Brooks, violation pro-
Mhition 1--IW, four months suspend
dl on payment of $25 fine.
Ouin'-v Ode'l Clearv -operating
car wHle intoxicatcd,.f*ul‘ .moiqths
so'shended on p8vment’’ol' $60 ^e.
Ves'-al Faw. riole*tbn nrohibltion
law. four months; Mrs. Vesta! Faw
in same case, four months sus
pended two years.
Carl Boyd, operating car whilgi
intoxicated, four months.
.Albert Wiles, operating car
Preawfit Rv||reaenUthre Will
Be To 5ttccvp|i
the important higfaM^
the snow plow thro'j#h, Jth%* j
big drift about eight tnllea (
of Boone.
' Tw» representa'lraa of
Ratriot .went to
ekiMbtt, w-m
.nitarosthig srHciffi w*H
pd. Girt Scouts are asked to wear
tbeir uniforms.
Are Not Beaten,
Says DnMii Queen
London.—Quneen Wilhelmina de
clared defiantly tonight "We are
not beaten and for us, the straggle
is not at an end.” in a personal
message to the embattled Nether
lands East Indies.
"In order tj help the East In
dies in the great struggle we shall
do the impossible since we know
tbat only he who accepts surren
der is beaten.”
Baptist Pastes
Meet Monclay 10:00
All Baptist pastor* in Wilkes
county are invited to attend the
reguUr monrhly meeting of the
WiOte*, Pastors . Conference at
ROInw'^StuIrdlTan’ 'a ,iphf Ilhi Upn-
day MlJh m* Saving
THote).. ^ progH^s na^ been ar-
, raiig^ for mo»lngd^ aftqrr
|noaft
I — J
. -iSflflnftA —ftmgnktwnaa ‘Wil-' terhoon fw, 8mWnui|
D. Burgin of Lexington, yes- tlon about worst bUiihriS J«
tfixday formally tossed his hat into that part of the sUta slnoa 1»J8
the ring by announcing that he and possibly the worst In half , a
.wiU'bh a candidate for re-election century. ,
as j^ireoentative from the eighth Although the enow, had meltbd
North Carolina district. slightly and had settled terafi
*T am -today filing with the state depth, many drifts were tan ffiaf. t
board of elections my notice of deep and at some places od the
candidacy,” Bui-gin stated yester- highways were more than 200
day. "Since I came to Congress I yards long. Crews wl h giant '
have endeavored to serve to the snow plows and with smaller
best of mV ability. I have support- equipment were working from ,
ed President Roosevelt’s foreign Deep Gap toward Boone and
policy as welL as measures for our from Boone toward Deep Gap.
national defense. This I shall con-;T7iey met at seven o'clock near
tinue to do. The only future we [Grand View Service station,
have lies in victory, and we must In Boone the winds of high
achieve it.” i proportion which followed the 22-
The one-time mayor of Thomas-’ Inch enow had drtfed snow on
ville and meinber olj the state - the south side of Main street to '
house of representatives, came tola depth of ten feet. Snow was
Congress in 1938, when he was]higher than the windows and
elected by a narrow margin of 6,- i doors of the business bouses aad
670 votes. [narrow trenches had been shovol-
He was re-elected to the 77th' ed through the drlfis to the doer*.
Congress in 1940 by a majority of giving the scene the appearance
29.647 votes. (of igloos of Eskimos. The town
Burgin is a member of the
House foreign affairs committee.
MayGetFack
About Prisoners
while intoxicated, four months
lands exile government In Lon. gusnended on payment of $60 fine,
dtfh for the transfer of operat-/) Fred Shumate, violation prohl-
loaal bases bition law, foUr monrim.
Girl, Rian Leap
From Window
# Prisoners of Red ™ Ru^ia
Want JTo Lo^te
Fottr Registrants
Wilkea draft boantn»mb«r
wants to locate Lana Alton
Larry 0»'e Whitley, Don
The Wsr and Navy Depart
ments announced jointly today
that a Prisoners of War Informa
tion Barean and an Alien Enemy
Informatton Bureau have been
established ,in the office of Pro-
voat Marshs 1 Ooneral in the War
, department.
bad had no newspapers since Mon
day and the two visiting newtga-
per men from here carried 'hbia
their first newspapers' since the
blizsard. .No coal had reaehe(|
the town and many families won
out of fuel, being forced to buy-,
or borrow from ’'righbora uatO
such rime as rddi tonal suppilea '
may reach Boone by truck.
Loaf bread supplies were .ex
hausted and Boone hoaaewlra
were making more biscuits than.'
formerly.
At many points along the high-.
way the wind had ttown all snow
from nerrhy fleWs, The .snow Wfifi
i^.4'
New York—A young woman and
a* man leaped from the fourth floor
nf a rooming house off T7miM
Square at noon today after gn ar
gument which a third person
sought to halt.
They landed on ai* extension o''
the third floor 16 feet below. ’The
woman, Kay Harris, former dancer
and now a waitress, who said she
came hoiw from Youngstown, Ohio,
wfis taken id Builevua Hospital
with a poeaibto spina frsctiire. -
Her companion, Richard Nar-
esrro, who came here from Dayton,
Ohio, suffered an injured a^e but
refill medical attention. Police
srid Leonard Kaker, superintend-
^t of the building, bold them he
..heard the pair aiimibg in Miss
gaBona ..a Bfarria' rbom and entanfid.-
-Osttoway IUorin»,,’and Jd« Daniel*]. >4toong their duties I**® deposited by the high vjieed wlml
MetiMn. Any tofoirinatfiqn i^ut | effiteetton a^ dlssemliiatlon of ^ highway and latai
b^^prefiMoit ^ lalbftoaUon from raviagg, leveHng the svtaoe of,'
eotMndDg AmericaM. either oi
*frhQ
tadfthcAf tminea trill ha. turned
aver tq «« dlatrlet attorney for
inveatigatfen. _ -''..'-.Si’
Mr. Coffey Make*
Hi* Skoe* Non-Skid
' C. D. Coffey, 8r; ha« neb risked
dangerous fMla on «now and
ice this wnek, Hifiafi weaf-,
bp .chains, ; .
By placing • »
antomobllw ehattt-' fir^ad - Ms shoe,
he has beqn eertalg pare
ling. Tke^deriee .wfla* waU anf
aocorapUsbbe thr^Olw* Jeealts.
IlyEfiT.
Srimson ordan Amy vaednated
boffit-ttefipiared
-safiMFll^M.
ptotara. J«t raribrad trmt toaien, Mmmw a
priaiasrs keffif autrehed M Ifea^Hipr of a stMd
IF tw vailaat iffil itfffiy st ~
■ kfiofe the' pmt'Om.yiim''
Flt>EUS
FRieih class
Ori church jprill
night, 7:lf, dt’
T-,--
mili'ary w cifvilian status,
have, been captured or Interiiad
by the enemy:
' AH request* for inlonnatlon
and, .corroepoBdence reletive to
Aswricans who have . been cap-
tur^ or Interned by the enemy,
thqfald ha addressed to:
. iiftifHtJtfDa Darawi American
fiMrioft 0«ce of tHa Provost
MtamM aemeni. War Depari-^^
tfasUMglni. TK'"0--
■nm two bgraas axpect-to «t-
ekangg taftmfia'tefc with- enemy
countries, throndh the Interna-
tj^f'Xtod 0riiM eommittea .at
(tojMpra, m sacordanee with thn
Ofisgya pri*»«» .o*
rea^l^ of 1»*6;
date very Uttls tafonnation
left
ftg«fBlUd>la f* memhar* Me
Dfidtad autea amed foraa takj* ^!l*
IP 48 elriliaaa la the
the eonniryside.
The wind, after Mowing the
snow off the ffylds. .pl^add^i
ddbt froia the froeen aad;
posited It OB the.tspow,,^.gi(^^
places giving it an anufihdl
color.
Highway foKos worked
to clear the hiriiwaim TwosM$
lemmee ' crews helped
enffiloyaes ei jW-,'
ersw* worked d%
whUe ptoWB wont, .
k«^ dritiM fib, oth^'
inio'aaow i®ft
msTOMMsd in, Boone,
son 4*d other towaez |
driver: o> a local
waa -Mnurfed' w*%'
drifra 'ih''M9dihb(-;'