yOL. No. 17
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Heroes of World Battle Front
h.~
At left is Dr. C. M. Wassell, through whose skill and courage 12
badly wounded men were gotten safely ont of Java, In the face ef invad-
Ing Jap hordes, and safely to the Australian coast. Capt. H. T, VHie-
less (right) went out to attack Jap transports off the Philippines. He was
attacked by Zero planes but proceeded on bis mission, emptied his bomb
racks on six Jap transports, then fought off 18 Jap planes for 75 miles,
bringing down 11, finally making a safe emergency landing with two
engines and rear landing wheel gone.
SERGEANT CARLYLE INGLE MAKES INVESTIGATION
Officer Says Big Theft
Ring Will Be Exposed
Thefts Totaling
Thousands May
Be Brought Out
Doctors Attend
I Medical Society
In Charlotte
North Wilkesboro Grocery
Company and Carl A. Lowe
& Sons Lose By Thefts
Several arrests have already
beep made in an investigation
which is expected to expose a
theft rin^ J.nyoiyljg. severaj|.t}»9.ii:^.
sa’^*"doUars here. Sergeant Carl
yle Ingle, of the state highway
patrol, said today.
Declining to divulge names of
thoee Involved until the investi
gation is completed, the patrol
officer said vast am9unts of mer
chandise have been stolen from
; North Wilke-sboro Grocery com
pany and Carl Uwe and S..ns,
principally by some of the em
ployees of the two firms.
He also said that the investi
gation to date has involved at
least two country merchants, who
purcha/sed the stolen groceries,
cigarettes, tobacco and other mer
chandise.
Sergeant Ingle said a. lead on
the theft ring wa.s discovered un
expectedly one night this week as
he was checking cars on a road
a few miles from North Wilkes-
horo in an effort to apprehend
some escaped convic's.
One car Sergeant Ingle stopped
had on a cargo of merchandise,
principally grocerw. and the
men with the car told him the
goods were from North liV iikes-
boro and were being delivered to
1 rural merchant whose name
! was not di.sclosed.
After some investigation the
car was allowed to proceed but
when another car loaded with
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Wilkes Medic-al Society was well
represented in the convention of
, the North Carolina Medical Socie-
jty held Monday, Tuesday and Wed
nesday in Charlotte.
Those from here attending part
or all the sessions were Dr. F. C.
Hubbard, Dr. John W. Morris, Dr.
J. H. McNeill, Dr. H. B. Smith
and Dr. W. K. Newton.
Duncan Active
In Saint Louis
7:30 TO 9:30 P. M.-
Scout Training
Session Tuesday
.“FumlamentaU of Boy Scout
Movement” Will Be Top
ic For Session
Isaac Dunoan, former Scout
master of Boy Scout troop num
ber 35 here and who went to St.
Louis a few months ago to take a
responsible position with a larg,.-
electrical firm there. Is now
Scoutmaster of troop number 71
of the Third Baptist church of
St. Louis, of which he is now a
member.
Before leaving North Wilkes-
horo Mr. Duncan, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Duncan, was active in
Red Cros« work here. He is now
first aid instructor for 4 5 air raid
wardens in the city of St- Louis.
AT COURTHOUSE
Democrats
Meet Saturday
County Convention Will Con
vene In Wilkesboro Sat
urday, 2:00 P. M.
At the last meeting of the
Wilkes District Committee of the
Boy Scouts of America plans were
made for a training session -jn the
subject ‘‘pnndamentf/- ' of the
Boy Scout Movement’’. This train
ing should be taken by everyone
who Is Interested or active in the
Boy Scout movement. It is now a
required course before anyone
can receive a certificate for the
Scoutmaster's Training Cour.se or
a Cub leaders Training course.
The course is designed to be both
Informative and interesting. In
addition to the lectures a sound
and color movie will be shown.
The entire course is covered in
kone two-hour period, which ■will
the given at the Reins-Sturdivant
‘chapel on Tuesday evening. May
19th, from 7:30 to 9:30. It is
the wish of the district commit
tee that all civic and church lead-
era. and any others who are in-
terMted In and come in contact
wHh onr youth, be present at
thlg session.
Deinoeratii of Wilkes county
will mee’ in their county conven
tion at the courthouse in Wilkes
boro Saturday afternoon, May Ifi,
2:00 o'clock.
Call tor the convention was is
sued recently by J. U. Rousseau,
cheirman of the Wilke.s county
Democratic executive committee.
Precinct meetings were held
throughout the county on Satur
day afternoon, at which time pre
cinct organixa'ions were set up.
At the county convention the
county organization will be per
fected and delegates will be
named to the state convention to
be held next week.
LEAVING SOON—
Gentry Will; Take
TVA Position In
Knoxville. June. 1
'Abandon Ship’ Drill on Atlantic, €o£voy
Manager Employment Office
To Take Position As Assis
tant Personnel (Mficer
B. G. Gentry, since 1937 man
ager of the employment service
office here, will leave North
Wilkesboro the ' latter part of
this month and on June 1 will 1
assume his duties as assistant
personnel officer for TVA at
Knoxville, Tennessee.
Mr. Gentry came to North
Wilkesboro ae manager of the
cmplcyment service office in De
cember, 1937, from Reidsville.
Prior to his joining this govern
ment service he had practiced
law in Reidsville and in Lynch
burg, Virginia.
He has been very active in civ- j N
ic and public life in North Wilkes-1 g
boro. He is chairman of the NYA
advisory council, secretary of the
WPA advisory council, president
of the Men’s Brotherhood of the
Norih Wilkesboro Methodist
church and vice president of the
men’s Bible class, and has been
actively affiliated with civic ar-
fraternal organizations here.
The position Mr. Gentry will
take with the TVA is a responsi
ble one. Today he said that he
will leave North Wilkesboro with
reluctance because he had en
joyed his work here and was ap
preciative of the splendid co-op
eration shown by local people.
Mr. Gentry has a splendid rec
ord in the employment service
and w'a.s often commended for
the record made by the branch
here under his management by
job placements and for finding
labor as requested by many em
ployers.
His family' will remain here
teJhporarliy.
Sin^n^r May 31
At Mountain Valley
.« t
K*-
stone Mountain union singing
will meet with Mountain Valley
church'two miles west of high
way 18 on Sunday, May 31, one
p.m. All singing classes and oth
ers who render gospel mnsic are
invited to tlike part in the pro
gram, J. A. Gilliam, chairman,
said today.
Registration Of
Auto Drivers k
Completed Todajr
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APPLY NOW—
2 New Aircraft
Courses to Begin
In Near Future
FINALS MAY 29—
Commencement
Programs City
School Outlined
49 Seniors At North Wilkes
boro School Anticipate
Commencement Season
LOCAL MEN—
Like Fishing
Boat—Buy It
Calendar o f commencefner.t
programs at North Wilkesboro
high school was announced this
week by Pan! S. Cragan, super
intendent of city schools.
Dr. W. A. Alexander, pastor of
the First Presby'erian church in
Charlotte, will deliver the bacca
laureate sermon in a union ser
vice at the First Baptist church
here on Sunday eveniing, May
24. eight o’clock. The high school
chorus will furnish music for the
service.
The final commencement pro
gram will be on Friday evening.
May 29. eight o’clock, in the
school auditorium. Members of
the senior class will pre.sent their
own program and high school di
plomas will be presented to 49
graduates.
The list of seniors given in or
der of their scolastic ratings as
compiled by senior class officers of U-boat warfare
At Sea . . . Ton are somewhere on the broad Atlantic aboard a nnlt
of the V. S. navy’s Atlantic task force, currently doing a job of convoying.
What you are now looking at is an "abandon ship” drill, in which the
ship’s personnel ga through all the motions withont actually going over
side. In the background are 'other ships of the convoy, (Approved by
y. S. navy.)
TODAY^S
War
News
MacArthur’s Planes
Smash 3 Jap Ships
Melbourne, Australia. — Oen.
Douglas MacArthur’e flying fort
resses and Catalina-Consolidated
bombers, opening a new phase of
their offensive, have sunk one
Japanese ship, damaged two, and
smashed 15 Japanese bombing
planes in atacks over a 1,750-
front, it was announced today.
Defensive fighters, newly arri
ved from the United States, shot
down two and damaged one of a
formation of Japanese Navy-0
fighters which vainly attempted
to raid the allied airdrome at
Port Moresby, New Guinea.
Mac.Arthur announced in a
general headquarters commiirtl-
que that his planes had sunk a
3,000-ton enemy invasion ship
and ob'ained direct bomb hits on
one of S.OOO'-ton tons and another
of 2.200 tons in. a punishing raid
On Atnbotna, Japanese naval base
600 milea north of Darwin in the
Netherlands East Indies.
Tokyo Threat To
Burma Base Mounts
Axis Raiders Sink
Three Cargo Ships
The U. S. Navy revealed 'Wed
nesday that three United Nations
merchantmen have been sunk by
Axis submarines—one off Africa,
one in the Gulf of Mexico and one
Sheet Metal and Riveting
Courses Begin At School
Here June 1 and 15
Value of Unit On All Ratian-
ing Cards Now Is
Three Gallons
Two new classes in aircraft
sheet metal and riveting will be
gin at North 'Wilkesboro school
next month, it was announced to
day.
One class will begin on June 1
and another on June 15. Wm. H.
Corum, instructor for the present
class which will soon complete its
course, will teach one class ^nd W.
Task of registering motorist*
for gasoline rationing ended to
day.
Beginning tomorrow, Friday,
May 15, motorists who bujf ga*-
ollne must use their radonlng
cards.
They may use the gasoline al
lowed by their cards as fast a*
they wish but when the card la
exhausted that will be all tha
gasoline they will be allowed to
buy before July 1, when a more
permanent system of gasolln*.
rationing will begin.
Trucks were not required to
register and will not have to hava-
a card to purchase gasoline. The
same applies to pickup trucks.
Rationing cards were issued la
five desses: A, Bl, B2, B3 and X.
The A card has seven units,
each good for purchase of thre*
gallons or a total of 21 gallons.
B cards were issued according to
B. Collins, industrial arts instruc-i necessary in going toTnd
tor m the c,ty schools, wdl teach ^ ^
the other.
ing and the other in the afternoon, | b3 for 19 units, or 57 gallons.
each lasting for eight hours daily.
All men interested in becoming
skilled. aircraftsheet jnetef- ' and
Japanese spearheads driving in
to Southwest China and toward
the mountain borderline between
Burma and Western India ap-
Beared to have been reinforced/in- . ^
.creasing the threats to Paoshan. "-'Yeting workers are my,ted to
important American operated air
base on China’s Burma Road, and Wilkesboro of-
Imphal, on the newly-built Burma-,f'ce of the U. S. Employment ser-
India mountain highway. I
The remnants of a British im-
' tions.
- j good for 11 units, or 33 gallons;
One class will begin in the morn-, b2 for 15 units, or 45 gallons;
Am •«% AV%a a ♦J- a iwm a Am I a m ^ a
perial army which fled up the j
Chindwin River valley of West
Burma, after its defeat in the
Mandalay area last month, seem
ed, however, to have escaped en
trapment and it was presumed a
majority of the British troops now
were near the Indian border
whence they can be moved to rail
heads in India proper, north of
Chittagong.
FEW CONTESTS—
$42 Army Pay
Is Held Likely
Washington. — The House stuck
to its $50 monthly scale for men
in the lowest ranks in the army-
navy pay raise bill but indications
were that the final figure would be
$42.
With House apn!;oval, given with
one dissenting vote, the measure
he Gull of Mexico goas to conference to bring it
within sight ot an Atlantic conformity with the rates ap-
town—while the Canadian 1 p^ved by the Senate. The Senate
two vessels leaders said
the plan was . to adhere to that
ment disclosed that
have been torpedoed in the St.
Lawrence River instead of one an-
nounred previously.
Sinkings revealed at Washington
and Ottawa brought to around 185
the cargo ship losses revealed in
this nation and Canada since the
war began. ’Two of the latest vie
Saturday Is Last
Day To Register
For Primary 30th
Registration Books Will Be
Open At Polling Places
Saturday, May 16th
figure.
Saturday. May 16. will be (he
last day to register for the pri
mary to be held May .30.
Registration books hrve been
open in tlie various precincts the
past two Saturdays and report.s
from some precincts indicate th'-**
-.egistr.ition has been unusually
light. In order to vote in the pri
mary. persons who have not reg
istered previously must register
on Saturday, Mry 16.
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X cards are good for any am-
onnt of gasoline necessary.
~ Jervice stations were buiy t»-
day as motorists said “fill ’er op*%
getting their tanks full befora
having to start on the preclons
cards.
Heavy penalties are provided
for violation of rationing regis
trations, one violation in particu
lar cited being transfer of gaso
line from a (ruck to a car.
Teachers did the work of reg
istering motorists, volunteering
their servicer, patriotically and
without pay a« they did in selee-
live service and sugar registra
tions.
FUNERAL TODAY—
M. J. Scroggs, 85,
Claimed By Death
M. J. Scroggs. age 85, for dec
ades a well knewn citizen of
-North Wilkesboro, died Wednes
day morning at his home at 509
C street. Death was attributed to
shock and toxic poisoning from a
fall on the porch at his home
last week.
Funeral service was held at the
residence ten o'clock this morn-
ling in charge of Rev. A. C. Wag-
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were
BIG PILE OF COPPER AT WILKES JAIL— „» * ra
METAL IN STILLS MAY GO INTO WAR GOODS
Johnnie Foil and Beech Blan
kenship. local business men. en
joyed a fishing trip during the
week-end around Norfolk and
Newport News, Virginia.
They liked their 22-foot boat
so well and hated so badly to
leave it that they just bought it.
On Saturday ^fternoon they
will launch their hoat on Oxford
lake near Taylorsville. Mr.
Blankenship said It will be the
biggest craft on the lake.
The boat is very conveniently
arranged and -has sleeping quar
ters, kitchen and many conven-
lenciea.
follows:
Margaret Rhodes, Mildred
Stafford, Meneta Wellborn, Hill
CaMton, Mildreld Blledge, Betty
Hill. Mary Anderson, Grace Mil
ler, Joe Clements, Jackie Frazier.
Christine Byrd, Margie Beaman.
Alma Elledge, Ruth Hayes, Ruth_
Lovette, Joyce Kilby, Lillian Mil-j
ler, Jeanne Moore, Rose Zell
Caudill, Elsie Hudson, Jessie Pos
ter. Mabel Kilby. Mollle Wilkins.
Frances Bowman, Wayne Gentry,
Frances Finley. Joe Hunt, Blanche
Hall, James Shepherd, Johnnie
Johnston, John D. Hall, Bryce
=!ebaBtian, Billie W. Estes, Ruby:’
V. Pardue, Jack Foster, J.
Joiues, Rosa Lee Myers, Louise
Kerley. Helen Wyatt, Vernon
Byrd, Bruce Hall, Holt Hudson,
Mildred Miller, Jack Hadley,
Prank McHone, James Anderson,
Jane Jones, Alene Lockhart and
Justus Brewer.
American vessels.
IN WILKESBORO—
Federal Court
To Open Monday
Judge Hayes To Preside
Over Regular May Term
United States Court
Attend Convention
Dr. and Mrs. E. S. Cooper and
daughter, Lelia Julia, and Miss
Janie Hudson were in Hickory Fri
day and Saturday. Dr. Cooper at
tended the two-day convention of
—BUY WAR BONDS—
The Lenoir county pig chain,
icu.iou cue v,eu.euc.eu ec startcd two yea^s ago with 14
[the North Carolina Chiropractors boys receiving Poland China. gUts,
association, which was held at Ho-|has been respoBalble for 21 add!
tel Hickory. v j tlonal boys receiving gifts. •
May term of federal court will
open in Wilkesboro on Monday.
jMay 18, for the circuit composed
of Wilkes, Ashe, Alleghany and
I Watauga counties.
I Judge Johnson J. Hays, of
• Wilkesboro. middle North Caroll-
j na district judge, will preside ov-
I er the term, which may be for
, twdCweeks.
tncluded on the calendar for
trial are many cases involving
alleged violations of the federal
liquor tax laws.