Allied Bombing For
Past Week Sets
New Record
R. A. F. and American
bombers during the past
week dropped a record num
ber of bombs on German
war industries and military
ba^s in Germany and occu
pied countries.
Last raid reported was last
nigbt, when a large fleet laid
waste to Wuppertal in the
Ruhr valley industrial sec
tion of Germany,
At the same time V. S. and
other allied bombers based In Tu
nisia have heaped destruction on
enemy base* In Sardinia. Sicily
and ports of the Italian mainland.
Here are pictured the three sons of
Mr. and Mrs. S. U. Reynolds, of this city,
, in the service. At left is Pfc. Phil Rey
nolds, who is stationed at the army air
base at Moody Field, Ga.; middle. Pvt.
Benjamin H. Reynolds, stationed at New
Orleans, La.; and Pvt, Eugenh Reynolds,
who at present; is on desert maneuvers
in California. Pvt. Benjamin H. Rey
nolds was confined to a hosp'ital in New
Orleans for several weeks but has great
ly improved.
Now In Africa
REDS DOWN PLANES—
Biggest news out of Russia is
the Soviet claims that they de
stroyed 456 German planes last
week to bring the month’s total
to more than 2,000 while losing
only 518 of their own planes.
Spasmodic activity on nwny sec-
ton of the Russian front were re-
WS8 claimed by either
ilMit naaifwliyiAt
by either side.
ATTU IS TAKEN—
Jap resistance on Attu island
in the Aleutians was broken yes
terday as the U. S. flag waved
triumphantly over the island.
Twenty days of fighting were re
quired to exterminate the Japan
ese there, but Americarscasualties
were described as light by the na
vy department, which directed the
campaign.
CHINESE WIN BATTLE—
War news from China, where
Japs last week launched a fierce
drive toward Chungking, took a
turn for the better yesterday
when Chinese recaptured a town
which the Japanese had described
as the gateway to the Chinese
capital. Chinese reports claimed
2,000 Jap casualties in a decisive
victory.
FRENCH TO UNITE—
Good news for the Allied cause
came today from Africa, where
General DeGaulle and General
Gitaud were reported meeting ro
bring about unity between all
French forces fighting against the
axis.
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Big News About the City-Picked
Up By a Journal-Patriot Reporter
• Thursday afternoon, for the first time since estab
lishing the route, we made the rounds with one of The
Journal-Patriot’s carrier boys—Dwight Wiles—now in
Detroit working in a war plant.
We saw much—big and little things—worthy of men
tion in print.
Starting out in the business section,, we delivered pa
pers to our near neighbors, and then on down the street.
Everywhere in the business section, folks were busy with
the day’s work, and soon getting ready ^to close up shop.
Soon we finished our job in the business section and
began operations in the residential. We noted the at
tractive conditions in which lawns were kept—hardly a
yard that needed mowing—the new flowers of the
sprina coming up out of the ground to soon add to Ae
-- *- ' beaottfttl
attractiveness of North iWUkesboro's
-
stroef over to’
Charles W. Jtmee, son of
Mrs. G. ('■. Hamby, of (Iwni-
pion, is o.k. in N'orlli .Africa. He
says he likes the country al
right but longs to be back in
tlie states. I’vt. Jones receiv
ed his basic training at t’amp
1/ce, Va., and Port Riley, Kan.
He lias been in service since
Dee. 1, 1»4I.
Masons Of
District In
Meet Here
Memorial
Service Held
Those who died in wars
that America might be free
were honored Sunday even
ing in a memorial service
held at the marker on Memo
rial Avenue.
Rev. Louis J. Yelanjian deliv
ered the principal address, in
which he pointed out the price
less privileges which Americans
enjoy.
The speaker suggested that as
a memorial that a fund be estab
lished to loan to worthy students
In college, Which would he a last
ing memorial from year to year
and would accomplish much of
lasting benefit.
W. C. Grier, Legion comman
der. was in charge of the service,
dk^lvreatlis In honor of those who
vwaied in the American Revolution,
-^Wur Between'The States, Spanish
Amerima War, World War num
ber i gad World Wfr number 2
'f w»n piMOd on the marker by rep-
resonUtive organlaatlons.
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William Clawson, farmer at
Murtaug^, got ^ immediate re
placement for his missing gaso-
. line ratiOT ‘ hook. He told the
iti' Wid he was plowing and, pimto.
The book waa ip>ne. ‘‘Must have
plowed it sader”, he said.
Grand Master State
Lodge Is Speaker
For Event
North Wilkesboro lodge
number 407 was host Friday
evening to Masons of the
33rd district in what was de
scribed as the most success
ful district meeting ever held
by the Masonic lodge.
A feature of the meeting was
an inspirational address by James
W. Payne, of Salisbury, master of
the grand lodge of North Carolina.
Prior to the meeting ladies of
the Eastern Star here served sup
per to about 75 -Masons.
A brief session of the local
lodge was held and after words of
greetings J. W. Nichols, district
deputy grand master, turned the
gavel over to Grand Master
Payne, who installed district dep
uty grand masters for three dis
tricts as follows: R. B. LeVsn, of
Statesville, 29th district; J. T. In
gram, of Lenoir, 36th district; . J.
W. Nichols, of Wilkesboro, 33rd
district. Each responded with' a
brief but interesting address. T.
0. Keplar, district deputy grand
master for the 25th district, act
ed as marshal for the installation
and also delivered a brief ad
dress.
In addition to Masons from the
lodges within the district,^ theta
were several from more distant
poUits.
Reports were given duilng the
meeting which indicated that the
lodge continues to progress and U
accomplishing much within the
district and throughout the state.
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lOtil^ vrtHD airwcf ovwr w v,
we take a short cut through the yard (dplobert S. Gibbs,
Jr., our Duke Power man, and naturaUy we stopped to
look over his excellent garden, and ^lieve us, he had
the finest tomato plants we’ve seen this season. They
were at least two feet high, and some higher. Robert
has a fine garden and ‘enjoys making things in his work
• shop after office hours.
Soon we came to the beautiful new homes that have
recently been erected on the street ieaJing off from
Trogdon Avenue near the ^Voman’s Club building. The
attractive home of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Church, erect
ed not so long ago, and the newly remodeled residence
of Dr. and Mrs. John Morris. (By the way, Rufus Church
had spent the entire day chopping the weeds from his
garden—a good one, too.)
Soon we reached the residence of our good friend,
Mr. M. J. Beardslee, a most congenial tellow. Mr.
Beardslee was anxious for his neighbor, Charlie Hig
gins, to enter his garden in the Lion’s Club Victory Gar
den Contest. (We learned later from Lonnie Carpenter
that Mrs. Higgins signed up).
TTien we found several new homes had recently been
built on the street running West via Ed Long’s house,
and Mrs. J. E. Deans working in her garden. But the
surprise of the entire trip came when we caught Rogan
Rousseau mowing his lawn, and you could have knock
ed us over witlf'a feather when he told us he had a
garden, and wanted us to see it. We kinda got oveV
our sinking spell, though, when he told us that his neph
ew and-nieces, children of his brother. Judge Rousseau,
had been doing practically »11 the work in the garden,
which was in excellent condition and a fine showinjg for
the children. Rogan, incidentally, told us that his good
friend, C. A. (Buck) Hayworth, assistant state highway
engineer located at Boone, who lived here for several
years, recently got married. Miss Agnes Grew, daugh
ter of Mrs. J. B. Greer, Sr., of Moravian Falls, is now
Mrs. Hayworth. ..... ,
But we didn’t catch Carl Steele workmg in bis garden
or mowing his lawn. Carl, with Mrs. Steele, was en
joying the cool breeze of the afternoon on his front
porch, and entertaining his neighbor and former em
ployee, Merrill Wiles.
Well, as we said in the outset, we visited many attrac
tive homes and found many i^slendid gardens, (that
Lions Club Victory Garden contest is going over with a
bang, and the judges have a tough jdb y»ead of them—
City School
Finals Held
Thursday
School Received Cov
eted United States
Valued Award
WillC
Demonstra
North Wilkesboro schools
closed a very successful year
Thursday night with grad
uation exercises when di
plomas of high school grad
uation were presented to a
class of 47 seniors.
It was a patriotic program with
the students carrying it out on the
theme of the “Four Freedoms”.
Jack Anderson, class president,
presided and the seniors were
seated on the stage. Invocation
was led by Peggy Nichols and the
salutatoty address . wa%j^ Eem
baY' iibio* wist* oeltgnslflir" ren
dered by Annie Ruth Blankenship
and Lucille Casey. —
*Jack Anderson spoke briefly of
the commencement topic, “Our
Schools at War”, and presented
Virginia Adams, Jimmie Moore,
Frances Kennedy and Lewis Hill
Jenkins, who, respectively, gave
readings on Freedom of Fear,
Freedom of Speech, Freedom
Fram Want and Freedom of Wor
ship.
A “Schools at -War” flag,
awarded by the government for
carrying out war activities and
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Miss Addle Malone, home
sendee M>^ciaU8t of Dnke Pow
er company, who will oondnet
the food conservation demon
strations In the Food PtMdWa-
tion Worfc«h6p at the.
Recognizes Brother
In News Film Here
Mr. Lowrance, a resident of
Winston-Salem, was among; the
patrons of The Alien Theatre
Wednesday rtuniij^ the show
ing of a news film showing tlie
activity of U. S. submarines,
.iir. liOwranre recognized his
brother—a submarine ’om-
mander—in the picture.
competition ia going-to be so keen). We noted that many
fine citizens weire away from home for the even-
of our
ing attending the annual commeneement of their fjne
school, and paying a worthy tribute to Ae many fine
boys and girls who were ending their high school ca
reer to do their part tomorrow to keep America the
land of the free.
Yes, sir. North Wilkesboro is really a thriving little
city, and you find out lots of things going on if you just
stir about a bit.
Dr. Joe H. Carter
Fills Pulpit Here
Heard Bv Large Congrega-
tio At The Presbyterian
Church T esterday
Bolivia’s new Economic Council
has recommended that the govern
ment purchase and sell articles of
prime necessity to the public. -
Sale of memorial popples here j was very successful. > ■
Saturday by the American fiegiun The little .memorial .flowers,, ^
Auxiliary and volunteer, workers which are soM to commemorate tor at the air Mse there,
Dr. Joe H. Carter preached to a
capacity congregation at the
North Wilkesboro Presbyterian
church yesterday morning, this
being the second occasion since
the departure of the pastor. Rev.
Watt M. Cooper, whoMs now a na
val chaplain in Australia.
Dr. Carter, who is well known
throughout this, section of the
state, and especially in Wilkes
county where he served as pastor
of both the North Wilkesboro and
wilkesboro Presbyterian churches
for sometime, preached, as usual,
a strong sermon, and was heard
by a large number of people.
Dr. Carter came to the city
from Montreat, where he is at
tending the Presbyterian General
Assembly; ^
Dn and Mrs. Garter reeehily re
turned from Bacrameute.
ute, where tli^ attended tham^-
riiMEe of their son, Joe H. Jr., to
Miss Mary Sadler Neely,, of Rook
Hill, 8. C. Joe, Jr„ Is au Instmc-
Dr.
amounted to *)212, Auxiliary of
ficials reported today.
Veterans of Foreign Wars or
ganisation here also sold poppies
and the sale by both organiuations
the sacrifice of those who gave
their lives few their country, rep
resents a mesfis of nalsing funds
to care toT families of dlMbled or
deceus^ Tetttihs. ' 1^',
the marriage
Carter performed
ceremony.
While in the city Dr. Carter
was entertained in the home of
Mr. and lira. R. W, Owyn.%‘ .
awflKw^F. SthOid lit;
m., watt week.
’ a.
234 Cases
Of Liquor
On Truck
Methods to
Keep Food
To Be Told
Food Canning, Drying
To Be Taught For
Three,Day*
Wilkes Man Is Loser
Much Liquor At
Reidsville
Reidsville. — Firm disbe
lievers in “carrying coal to
Newcastle,’’ Rockingham of
ficers became suspicious
Plana for the county-wide
Food Preservation Work
shop to be conducted at the
Liberty Theatre on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday,
June 8, 9 sund 10, are rapid
ly being made and all indi-
cationiT point to a most suc
cessful three-day event.
Tbe event will be held under
the auspices of the Civilian Sier-
vice Corps of the office of OCD
and its principal purpose is to
teach people tbe best methods of
caaajhi^.and drying toad from vie- ,,
"US* sefter -tlcT*
growing season.
Miss Addle Malone, home ser
vice specialist of Duke Power
company, will conduct the dem
onstrations, which will be from
9:30 to 11:30 each morning. Miss
Malone has conducted many cook
ing school and other demonstra
tions here and is well known in
this part of the state.
Sponsoring the Food Preserva
tion Workshop are t!’.!’ Duke Pow
er company. Liberty Theatre and
The Journal-Kitriot. in coopera
tion with Mrs. Anni“ H. Greene,
Wilkes home demonstration agent.
Miss Malone in her demonstra
tion will show the best, approved
methods of canning with pressure
cooker, hot water bath canning
and food drying processes.
Efforts lire being made to im
press upon the people the urgent
when the driver of a lumber necessity of canning and other-
truck they had halted claim
ed he was enroute to North
Wilkesboro, center of one of
the largest lumber counties
fn the state.
They investigated, and under
several thousand feet of oarefully
,-rranged planks they found plen
ty of room for 234 cases of Black
Gold rye whisky.
The driver, listed as Junior
Greer, was brought to Reidsville.
where he is being held under 52,-
000 bond. Officers said be refus
ed to comment after his conten
tion that he was hauling lumber
to Wilkes county misfired. A com
panion, who was riding with
Greer managed to escape.
The truck driver was original
ly stopped on a charge of speed
ing and reckless driving. He re
portedly was coming from Bal
timore. The truck whs said to be
the property of Clarence Benton,
of Purlear.
Sheriff L. W. Worsham was as
sisted in making the raid by State
I^atrolman Fred Fleagle and
Reidsville police officers.
Aviation Cadets
Begm Training
Three jroung'men from Wilkes
reported^ Friday at Biloxi. Uiu..
^ b«i^'.tn3aing as ca;.
data fo' th».array air
Dstight Seltip^tfRaC
'mgt at Mir. and Mn. R: B. Beiiaa’
tkm, of Halls hHlii: Ralph Gnaw-
ford, son of Me. and, Mrs. J. M.
OrairioFd, of North’jWUkesTiOro;
and Bt:-D. Dahoy, Jr., aon of Mr.
add Mfa. E. D. Daaey,' of Iforth
WUkaoboro.'*
ProrioiiBly thoy hW;.^ipad all
’eacaminattOBS and woro aeoaptod
tor ariitlon cadet
wise keeping surplus garden food
and fruits for use after the grow
ing season, in order that greater
amounts of commercially packed
foods may be ;ivailable tor armed
forces of the United States and al
lied nations.
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Large Crowd At
First Service In
Revival Sunday
Services Began Sunday Nigbt
At First Methodist Cburcb
In North Wilkesboro
Revival services begam
Sunday evening at the First
Methodist church in this city
aund will continue through
June 9.
Rev. C. P. Bowles, pastor et
the Wadesboro Methodist church
here as gnest minister, delivered
an inspiring message on the sab-
Ject of "I Believe In the Church,”
to a capacity audience. Rev. R.
W. MeCulIey, of Lenoir, who is
directing music during the revi
val, rendered a M>ecial number. '
Rev. A. C. Waggoner, pastor,
announced that servlees will b«
held each evening,, eight o’clock,
except Saturday, . at . dHrirtk.
.ttiat a brW bw*iJb»|f,tep4ee^^
mf
boHMd at tin towa Bal|
day,
^adpal points bronght ont te
the^BieM«i« hy Rbv.-Mr.^Bo’aloa
in his msssage Snndsy'night oa
“I Bsttevo ln The Chareh” wers
as'toilOwa:^ 4 iK
> 1.—Bscaue of its hirtorte tra-
diUi^i. - The char^ has. bsen In
(CoBtlpasd o» ihgs etrtitl