Warj^fetties
•S^ 23 JS^t. fa
New Gmnea Foray
General MacArthur Estal>-
lishes Headquarter* In
Australia For Combat
American and AnntralUa air
foroea dealt deraatatiim blows
to JapMeee shipptnjf near New
Oaiaea north of the AaatnUiau
coeet yeaterday, aceordhig to
Ut« war news dispatches.
Twenty-throe Japanese ships
were pat odt ot action in the
attacks while only one plane
was lost by the Americans and
AnsfraUans.
I^dfai^fk
SUfa qifaiwfaik’Bdifa Instrue-
tor WUltlw^infasly Ee
HotriiQh That Date
Five 'Move Town* Recaptur*
ed By Attadiing Red
-h ' ■ ‘ '
Force* Yesterday .
Momow. — More' than 3.50*)
ntms
Hitler Knows i
Defeat Near, |
WeDes States'
Pictured here i* the Bank of North Witkwboro build
ing. The bank thi* month is observing iti SOtb anni-
ver*ar>’ of service a* a financial institution to the peo
ple of thi* section of the state.
Germahs were reported today to
have t'.?en slain in a series of rc-
tlona ranging from Leningrad to
the Crimea and the Moscow radio
said Bei sirmy men bad recap
tured five more communities in
■he Smolensk aone.
Cutting off of the Rzhev-Vyaz-
raa pocket, where German g-rri
BEST RECORD YET—
Local Students
H^Uy Rated In
Music Contest
Washington. — Sumner Wrfles i
acting secretary of state, asserted;
yesterday that Adolf Hitler now i
knows that his downfall is near. |
WeQa made thw statement in; Xhree Honor Rating* 1, Two
. Mounenting on Hitler's speech in j
■Nifton Sunday. The Gemuin lead-t
cr predicted the “coMpiete de
.11, and One HI At Boone
On Saturday
stn^on” of Russia's armies next
summer and went on to say that
President Roosevelt not only would
fail to create a new Europe but
woold “brine ab^4he eoUapse of
We own WorkL*" '
• ..Awsr*',
"There was's-ttme, jWetleS to^ a boro entries were as follows:
press coftferepe®, When Rider could Soprano solo. Jackie Fraziet
, « J At-
Students of North Wlikesboro
high school made, the beet record
In *he achool’a history si the dis-
trkst mneie contest held at Boone
Sstai5^*t,
I of tw? Nftrth Wfikwi*
HAD BEST RECORD—
Wilkes Boy Most
Outstandmg At
Q. B;. •Mtsthirf.'IdireetOr
fense tihiiiing in North Carolina
vocational eduegtjon dfaieion of.
the stafil'tf- tslftcatlOnal “'sys'em.
has intoritied Paul 3; Cragan,
sopertateAdeiif of y.wthe NOrtli
Wilkeshorb* schools, that e good
instructor has been ob'alned for
the aircraft sheet .metal courses
to begin here.
The date of the opening of the
classes was j^tponed from
March. 2 'o Mari* ■16 and a sec
ond postponement was necessa
ry 'because some equipment had
sons hold out approximately hnif
way along the 2S0-m11e route «0''W not secured by that date
Moscow to Smolensk. Is a major ^ The letter U^m Ma his to
aim In current Russian ope.y:-! Cragan stated dedni ely that^the
tlons on the cen'ral fronr. ' J^^tructor wi 1
The Soviet information bureau,here ou April 6 and ‘hat all me-
' terials and equipment shoukd be
Opttted Toi
(falb»dk2,49?
t'liteii mm IforA WB-
Itasborol Wsa In infancy
said Red army troops killed 1,010
Germans to ovrrun a southwest
I defense position and levied heavy
j tolls In other ’sectors.
I (A .Morocco radio satlon
N _» j ! broadcast e Moscow report that
Y A lihnTAr I heavy fighting was underway
. 1 . rk. suburbs of Kharkov. Ger
man-held • Industrlpl city ot the
Donets Basin,
the capital.)
Baxter Brice Durbiim Hon
ored; Many Boys Trained
Fch* Defenae Industries
hurl a '‘monstrous He’* around the honor rating I
1 J A'L. ..A .A M W*vV «.
•world with devastating effect, but
gradually the wotld has become
aware of this technique and now
tbs lies come btick at him boomer
angs.
People have learned, Welles ex
plained, to pay less attention to
Hitler’s boasts and predictions and
more attention to the inadvertent
admissions of his own fears and
Tro'j
Alto solo, Billie Rudd
don. honor raMng II.
Tenor solo. Justus Brewer.
Jr., honor rating I.
Solo by boy with unchanged
voice, Dean Minton, honor rat
ing I.
Girl-; glee club, honor rating
III.
. Trio, Peggy Nichols, Annie
wrakenessts with which his speech- Ruth Blankenship ' ?nd Jackie
Frazier, honor rating II plus.
Brxtar Brice Durham, Wilkes
youth who entered .the Durham
NYA resident center on Decem
ber^ 2*., wsa.seli^tsd bs I he . most
ontatat^ng apoog;' *66 defense
industry trsinees there.
Young Durham is a son ot Mr.
and Mrs. Coy Durham of Lomax.
Mrs. Maude S. Miller, personnel
interviewer for the NYA in this
district, said today that many
who entered training centers a
few months ago are now em
ployed in defenj^e centers. Inclu
ded are . ten from Wilkes who
have gone to the ahipyeTds at
Norfolk, Va., and several have
On hand.
Announcement that the courses
win be held has attracted much
interest and already more than
60 men have reglatered with the
employment service office ea ap
plicants for" the training The
•I i.u«- courses will, begin with two
400. miles Utow i shifs. the first begin-
ininif? aboat three o'Dioch in the
'i . Mj. a«a^. „
Nazi survivors of ‘he south
western fighting, the site of which
was not specifically Rested were
Mid to have retreejSd.
At the uppw ono 9* ‘b* ha'tle
line, tin the - Lefilngrad' frttflen.
the ak>y^ ‘lalomanosjttetyaH
r^fprhlil^^MOr
tia'^
days affiM.;vs- .> - w »
Red IwiTy folroes \epetaUng
iDg the 'hilled stipplV line »o
from far, nor hern base*-—giiaS'l-
Archan^l and hiarraselng Finnish
German sea communications, al
so came In for official mention.
“Our ships In the Barents Sea’’
& communique said, “have sunk
two enemy iransports.one trawler
end a patrol ship with rn aggre
gate displacement of 16,000 tons
afternoon. After school ends
third eight-hour shift may ^
started.
I The Instructors will be from
aircraft plants and” those who
Italtft tbe course wilt us*; etfUfp^
meht sad akti^lgAdAAUoel with:
siW'Set tet''tuNwCiwUt
Tbe Bank of North Wilkesbeiw
.has eomplVted a half-eentary dV
'aarrlee which extends back t*
wltblh two years of the beginalag
ot ifiMb Wllkseboro.
The Institntlon opened for
buslnew on Mareh 2, 18*2, ,aai
bae enjoyed steady and progrea-
sHte growth since that date until
it has become the largest unit
bank in northwestern North Car
olina.
At the time the,Bank of North
Wlikesboro was organised the
railroad from Winsbon-Saleim had
just been completed. North
Wlikesboro was not a toyn—Just
a vitioge in an undeveloimd
country.
With a capital atock of only
120,000 and with only flO.OOO
of that amount actually paid in,
the bank opened In rented quar
tern In what was then the Disi-
J p p« I WJ 1 mette building on the south side
. t, rini6y ivas
w f Money In this part of North
P • J__a D AmIt'Carolina at that time was not
X 1 vSlUvll{ \gl DttlllV plentiful and those who had ac-
,1,,- • wr cumulated savings had them de-
ThiwAwTjf |t|£i YA2II*C posited elsewhere. But the young
inilXynMlC *Institution, guided by mm wh®
^ . held the confidence of the people,
James Edward Finley, an .out- grew steadily,
standing pioneer In many devel- First dlrec'ors of the BasAwC
opmen's In northwestern North North Wlikesboro.- tFSce ' T.v •-
Carolina and other parts of the Finley. Capt. J. T.
country, wee fjrom March 2,,1892, g. g, Blair, J- E. adtlv^W’-',
aatil '192* praaWnnt of the Bank jj. Ateher.'Of t|Mi
^ ^^»th; W«i»fborp». whhp
James Kdsrard FtiUey, who
died to 1928, wan president
of The Bank of North Wllhes-
boro from Ue beginning on
March 2, 1»»2, until shortJj
before his death. He made an
outstanding (donmr in many
basinees etiterprtseH.
course* »u*t born *** *" a isnceeenea tn^iq, 'wwsa-suijuweipi
ploymeni at any iN^rof the coun-j Worth Wilkeeboro'Is t.ualneas nnd^iwbferalonal «e». {
trv where they may be needed in u* aaa form work on The first stoekholdeis and dl-
J
born a*lf -’reared bh" a J •ngeended
try where they may be needed In : located. He dM farm work on
the aircraft Industry. these' lands now covered with
bulldlnga. streets and factorle.'*.
IHU father was A- W. Finley.
es abound.
The signtlicance of Hitler’s Sun
day speech, he said, is to be found
not in its boasts and promises but
in the fact that ‘‘there is implicit
in every word and every phrase
Bitier’s own recognition of his im
pending downfall and of the inevi- ntet. Parents with
table conquest of the German ar- were T. J. Frazier,
Members of the faculty who
accompanied the studen's were
Paul S. Cragan, superintendent.
Miss Louise Younce, Mrs. A. F.
Kilby, Miss Ellen Robinson and
Miss P^gy Nichols as accompa-
the Students
Mrs. R. P.
positions in Bleckstone, Va. i i U ' Ta
Mrs. Miller said that several j JOtinSOIl 1-0110 18
Wilkes girls have been accepted 1 Claimed By Death
at resident centers for clerical
nues.
Casey and Mrs. A. H. Casey.
-V.
Praises Soviets j
“The magnificent resistnnee of FIFTH SUNDAY-
the Russian, armies and the de
feats which they have inflicted up
on the forces of Hitlerism,’’ said
Welles, “have in great part been
responail/fe for bringin>; this to
pass. These are the very armies;
whose annihilation Hitler aiuiounc-' Ror.da Singing convention will
ed^jnany months ago.” '
As for Hitler’s excoriation of
president Roosevelt, Welles assert
ed *'it is only natural that the kind
of world in which President Roosp-
rir in » —
' Ronda Singing
At Bethel 29th
be held on Sunday, March 29, at
Bethel church, five miles south-
I west of Elkin.
1 W. H. Jones is chairman of the
— ... ^ ' convention, which will open at
wh and the American people wish ^ anj continue through
to five should be termed ‘a naw, gospel singers are
detestable, alien world’ by Hitler." t,, attend and take part
J)r. H*yt Btadcwell To
jin the singing.
and home economics tniining.
E'ta Gray Mayberry and Edna
Bell Miller of North Wilkesboro.
are at the clerical cen'er at Char
lotte. At the home economics
center at Ellenbe are Florlne
Coffey and Grace Combill. of
North Wlikesboro. and Beatrice
Burchette and Elsie Arlee John
son, of Hays. Mrs. Miller said
that there are vacancies for oth
er girls who Wish to secure sim
ilar training.
Boys going to the Durham
center in the last few days from
Wilkes to study welding Include.
Helton Holbrook, ot Moxley; Tom
Sam Handy of Abshers; Dwight
Martin, ot Elkin; George Pur er,
^f North Wlikesboro; Garvey
Settle, of Elkin route one. Those
going to the machine shop center
at Raleigh have been Tom Ed
ward Hendren. of Oilreath;
James Moody, of State Road;
Floyd aimpsca. of Dockery.
Three. Claude EIHb. of McGra-
Funeral service was held Tues
day pfternoon a* Falrplains Com
munity church for Edward
Franklin Johnson, elght-months-
i old son of Paul and
ichnmbers Johnson, of North
1 Wllkeaiboro. He died Monday
I evening. Surviving are the fath-
Dougfaton Files
For Re-electioo
The first sfoekholdem and di
rectors were fortunate In being
able to get the late James Ed
ward Finley as president of the
farmer and banker. He was a di j njwly organized hank. He was a
rector of the First National Bank rative of *hts community hnt at
in Charlotte, which principally that time was living on his Ilve-
Only Three Races
Democrats Inilfaated
So Far
Raleigh, M srch
jer and mother and one brother.
I LABOR ►
17.— Rep.
Robert L. Doughton. veteran of
nearly 32 years In the United
States house of represenUtives,
Joyce j the state board of elec
tions today for re-election ascon-
I gressman from the ninth district,
i Doughton Is unopposed so far
served banking needs of people
here before the Bank of North
Among. Wlikesboro wa-s organized.
In early manhood J. E- Finley
took the advice of Horace Greely
:—“Go west, young mnn‘' — rnd
went to Fort Worth, Texas. He
helped lay off 'he town of Fort
Worth, now one of the largest
stock Harm in Watauga county.
With reluctance he accepted the
1 position and came T) North
Wlikesboro. His decision doubt
less had much to do with the
growth and progress of the Insti
tution and all this community.
He .served ‘he hank as presi
dent with distinction until he
cities in the south central states. | retired in 1923 because of ad-
A United "states Depirtment of their Intention of seeking
and with hie .filing all of North
Carolina’s members of the house
of repreaen'attvee had slgnyied
•e-el
Agriculture survey recently com
pleted shows sharply higher farm
. wages for labor and larger mm-
i'bere of workers now employed
on farms.
ectlon by filing with the elections
'board.
Filing for state offices will close
at 6 p. m. Gsturday. So far. only ,
and was that town’s first tele
graph operator and depot agent
when the rajlro^I, reached ‘'he
towh.
He came back to North Can
lina and purchased the Meat
Camp farm in Watauga county.
He was operating that r^plend'd
farm when he was called back to
I North Wlikesboro to head the
newly organized bank.
Here he was a pioneer in manv
vanced age. He died In that yaar.
The first vice president of the
henk was the Ia‘e J. G. Finley
and the first cashier was D. W.
Greenlee, who left the bank In a
few years and was succeeded by
R. W. Gwyn. young man who
owme here from Elkin and had
begun work with the bank four
months after it opened. Mr. Gwyn
continueo a= the ershier of ‘he
bank until this day and Is one of
the best known bank cashiers in
Called To Se^^vice
A far oniv developments, giving of his time
at 6 p. m. i&turday. so ‘f • • merns to movements for good the state.
three races for Democra iF . - telephone, electric si.d J. R. Hix was elected president
b.rMf'eoPed. ^ . _
r4 H.r It'. th. o, „»
ve -.w —- — J IIUWC, X/I**uu^: Utswt wa |
Speak At First Baptist; fix. ■»«>’“>
.Examine urartees^ jj^^h
ta the absence of the pastor. After Induction Wlikesboro. left for Wilmington
-•-wba conducting evangelistic welding training. Eugene
Mrrices at the Celvary Baptist i«_A new Harrold. of Hays, la taking train-
i'S: “.r
aknrch in North Wllkeeboro will, registrants ihto the army be-
be supplied tWs Sunday by Dr. eff^Mve today. .
Port Blackwell, president of *** fmm their
Mars Hill Bagt lst College. Dr. have received notice THURSDAY FRIDAY
Blackwell ^ well known In this local boards to rejmr fer the THURSDAY, FKIPAT
seeUon of the state, and his visit army physical eMmlnaUon. and
to North WUkertoro Is anUclpat- it was usually about ten dr.ys af-
Swlfh interest by many. The! ter ‘bey
,lr«alilp services will begin at that they received their induction
tk® usual hours — 11:00 a. m. ; orders.
lotte and Mnnpby Dee Waugh,
colored youth, went to Rocky
Mount.
■ and 7:80 p. m.
tinder Dr. Blackwell’s leader-
;abip. Mars HIM College ha«i been
aalarged iby the aiddltlon of sever
al new bnlldlngs, and the student
body has increased consdderably
m recent years. A number of
ys and girls from North
kedboro and Wlikesboro have
the school at Mar* Hill.
A* eordka! tovltatioB is extended
m the auhlic to attend the wor-
” at th® Baptist
4p hear the segniomi
'v»i' '.iViiBgS
Under the new plan, registrants
will reoetve orders for immediate
induction, and the physical exam-
1 If » I
EducatiH* Are
Attendiog Meet
School anperlnt®B’d*nta.’''*prlncl
pals and some faoully wamliers
iaation will come after they are,from North ..WiliMFfboTO and
in the army. jwnkeS coun'y school*-are attend-
The change was adop’ed at ing the annual ses6tM of the
the request of the Wax depart- North Carolina Edjl^^on ^Ahso-
ment, which has agreed to grant elation. - -
Immediate furloughs to men who
need time to wind up their clvll-
of good
o. .1 I b.
1* in th^t th^ dev would com.
Marvin K Blonnt Jack Ed-{ '•> brqakfss*
Farde. b^h of ‘“e. come to
firs* district, and “ J ; -wlikesboro In time to do
r, Is oppoeed by "
ger, of Mt; Airy,
D.' C. Speas, of Winston - Salem.
In the fifth •«8trict. ? 'f ’e^/;» * '
Cajmerpn *|otri*pn,%. former
govertior, and phRefi Bttpes Sen-
ntor, « tebp^aidd for"the IlemO'
icratle nomination for represen
tative from the ttew 10th district
So far, only one Republican
has filed wl'h the stijte elections
• b^. SoBcltbr AYalon B. HpH,
to North
a doy’s
■work. Today that is easily ac
complished.
Before coming hack to North
Wlikesboro *o assume manage
ment’bf the new bank as presi
dent, Mr. Finley was a prominent.
citizen in Watauga county, where ^
ReuubTlcanlhe was chrirman of the county^
^ boerd of commissioners and of-1
ten rrferred t® as the “model;
of the hank, succeeding J. B.
Finley and he has ably served ‘he
h-'nk In that cap-city for 19
years.
After Us opening the Bank of
N.'rth Wlikesboro onerated for
some time in its first location
and then acquired Its own quar
ters on the southwest corner of
(Continued on .page 5)
ENDS THIS WEEK—
Cases Settled
fa Court Term
Y»lll»rtn«. 1» Nortt WI’Uct
irtct. 'bore ««ni Di..b to 0“
can* are expected to file | this city and nil
developmaiit of this city and
the deadline ^twdey. J comthunKleg In this Immedia e
The SUte section of the state, not only as
wlM meet here S*tu«laf. to ap
point election hoards for,the 160
.counties of the ‘alpte.
dan aSairs.
The convention op^e^tcligy
and wor«oatlnue throwlinMGiy.
Nme ot tbe sehoof* oa-Wtiit**
Botert Wood Finley, a aeoead
HeatenB®!) to the CT. B. Army
neawreo, ha® been celled te re
port. 9Mt ‘faageh 27 a6 FkatiHoa-
niffg, Gm. He roc ot red hie mill-
tn*y taalninfc fit DMldaon Ool-
-json Far nap'* Bos»«^
Be a regular on the ho®6„
fronts! Make regular
chase* of V. 8. Defenae, Bavlii#!
a haaker, hut as a public spirited
MUaen wHRiig to back ente^rl
ses aad derelapmen’s
to a)i the people
a
-a.
Boad* and 6fiamp*. j, ’
Muiic Recital
At School Today
Several cases hsve been set
tled In Wilkes superior court ^h’lil
week by consent judgments.
Judge Left D, Johneon, of
Clinton. Is presiding bvai; ®ourt.
this week, which wUr'iSid' fae
three-weeks March term.’
A divorce was g^ted inPtlin.
, - .Case of Durlns Bara-xsttm*’ .Item-
beneficial ^Dare. la the three- i^owtog ea^
‘ ea consent judgments 'ware e»-
twtoll)
Hairteon Andembn rerias'
Id BpttHng cbmpd^,
reenteta-lM*.
Keep ’em rolling- We ipMn
dpUariP. Bay U. 8. Savinga Bonds
are elosad, howevar, ,4^d’uul)#i»-;. tegs iu»d r«*utty-
tute teaiAera will gr**|da-q**r
claasea bf tuiwher* gUen^off
■A