Will Recruit Women
For Army; Be Here
Three Days
Lt. Frances Palmer and
two corporals of the WAAC
set up a temporary WAAC
recruiting office today at
North Wilkesboro posloffice
and will remain there
through Wednesday^of this
week to interview women in
terested In enlisting in the
Army’s Auxiliary Corps.
Heading the recruiting party is
Lt. Palmer, whose home is In Del
aware and who was educated at
Greensboro College and Duke Unt-
Terslty. Before enlisting In the
service Lt. Palmer was a profes
sional singer in New York City.
With her are Cpl. Marjorie
Cuff, a Tulsa, Oklahoma, school
teacher before she donned the
uniform, and Cpl. Edna Caslln,
who was a newspaper reporter in
Baltimore. Md.
While here the WAAC’s will be
available for civic meetings and
between shows will appear on the
stages of the local theatres each
night.
- Lt. Pahner calls attentloa to
the expansion program of the
WAAC and the urgent need for
thousands of recruits for this
branch of the army. Many oppor
tunities are afforded recruits in
WAAC. Lt. Palmer said.
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Navy authorities revealed that 14 of the 19 ships named as lost or damaged at Pearl Higbor nave been
returned to active duty. At left, the smashed sections of the mala deck of the battleship OUa|oma are cov
ered with mud and barnacles after 17 months immersion. Bightlng her was one of the most spectacular Jobs
of salvage done in the harbor. The battleship had capsised at an angle of 15U4 degrees—leaving her
practically upside down. Upper right: A side of the hull of the capeised mine ship OgaU Is shown before
she was salvaged. Lower right: Two barnacled guns of the ArUona are shown alter removal from the ship.
Judges Will
NameGarden
WinnerslGth
Thief Loots Auto
62 Competing For $50
Cash Prizes In
Contest
I Personal belongings, including
! some money, were stolen from the
I car of Russel Gray. Jr., of Wilkes
boro, Saturday night.
l^r. Gray left his oar for about
\ ten minutes on the street in front
of the Wilkes Hospital w'hlle ne
visited his wife, who was a patl-
I ent there.
When he returned the things
had been taken from his car and
no trace was found of the guilty
party.
William Burke Is
Taken By Death
Taylorsville Citizen Was A
Brother of Attorney Har
old D. Burke
Taylorsville. June 10.—William
orter Burke, son of Attorney J.
Burke and Mrs,. Mamie Mathe-
gon Burke, of Taylorsville, died
at Long’s hospital in Statesville
Tuesday morning June S, at 4
o’clock, after an illness of four
days with pneumonia.
He was born September 23,
190S, and had been a member of
the Presbyterian church since
early boyhood, .\fter graduating
from Taylorsville High school, he
attended McCallie's School for
Boys in Chattanooga, Tenn.
He is survived by his parents,
one brother, H&rold D. Burke, at
torney of North Wilkesboro. and
two sisters. Miss Carolyn Burke
and Mrs. Elizabeth Burke Jen
nings, both of Taylorsville.
The funeral services were con
ducted from the Presbyterian
chtirch^n Wednesday afternoon
at 5 o’clock, and was in charge of
Rev. J. C. Bridges, pastor, assist
ed by Rev. Joe H. Carter of An
derson, S. C„ a former pastor, and
Rev. Mr. Ford, pastor of the As
sociate Reformed Presbyterian
church of Taylorsville.
Ti^«s«lay, June 15, is the
deadline- for
garden in the North Wilkes-
horo Lions Cluh’s victory
garden contest and already
62 have entered. i
Judges will visit all registered
Victory Gardens on Wednesday
m->rning, June 16, at which time
the three best gardens will be de
clared winners ojl the three prizes
offered by the North Wilkesboro
Lions Club. Judging these gar
dens and deciding the winners
will be a difficult task as there
are sixty-two or more real good
ones registered.
The judges are: J. B. McCoy.
John Boyles, and Mack Moore.
They will be assisted by Mr. ,T.
B. Snipes, Wilkes couunty farm
agent.
Here is a complete list of all
names as turned in to the com
mittee chairman:
North Wilkesboro:
F. P. Blair, Jr., B Street.
J. A. Rousseau, Jr.. 813 B St.
J. E. Buchanan. 309 D St.
(Continued on page eight)
Wheat Is
ReadyFor
Harvest
S,
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Pigs Purchased Through
Swine Specialist Taken By
4-H Members In County
County Agent J. B. Snipes last
week distributed feeder pigs to J 5
boys and girls, ’' he pigs will be
fed out as 4-H projects.
The pigs were secured through
B, V. Vestal, swine .specialist of
North Carolina State College.
Mr. Snipes placed pigs with the
following 4-H club members: Ray
Wilson. Tom Pardue, Lin Mc-
Quire. Jimmie Miller. Ethel r’ear-
son, W. E. Horton. Gilbert Eller,
Luther Osborne, Smith Rhodes,
Mozelle Snyder. J. G. Mayberry,
Jr., Bronda Bumgarner, Maynard
Yale, Jimmie Kimberlain and Rex
Whittington.
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Italian authorities at Grenoble,
France, have closed a French cafe
because its orchestra stopped play
ing whenever an Italian officer
entered.
Seabees Appreciate
Home Front Activity
Combine Owners Are
Aik^Mo. Meet
Those from the Wilkeshoros
attending the funeral service in
cluded Attorney and Mrs. Harold
D. Burke, Dr. R P. Casey. L. S.
Spainhour, Miss Florence Miller.
Attorney F. J. McDuffie, Attor
ney H. A. Cranor. Mr. and Mrs.
Graydon Watts, Mr. and Mrs. W.
K. Sturdivant.
Sunday School Picnic
Wednesday Evening
Sunday school of the First
Methodist church here will have
Its annual picnic Wednesday af
ternoon, five o’clock, at Smoot
Park, Wm. H. Duhlliig, superin
tendent, said today.
“rhe picnic will mark the close
of a v^y successful Dally Vaca
tion Bible school, which has been
In progress at the church. There
will be games and contests for
children and a ball game for
•dnlts. All ere asked to carry
pienie Ipneh for the event.
Sherman Price Conunents On the “Food For
Freedom” Issue of The Journal-Patriot
and Food Production in Wilkes
Farm conihine owners
have been asked to meet &t
the Wilkes courtheuse on
Thursday night, June 17,
eight o’clock, J. B. Snipes,
county farm agent and
chairman of the Farm Labor
Advisory committee, said to
day.
Mr. Snipes said it was essen
tial that the combines in the
county be used as widely as pos
sible In order to relieve the farm
labor shortage.
On Thursday night the combine
owners will be asked to estimate
the number of acres they can
harvest tor other farmers in- their
respective communities and the
swap-work phase of the farm 1«-
bo; problems will be used as ex
tensively as possible.
Wheat is now ready for har
vest and the extra duties of har
vest time will require the maxi
mum in cooperation and work
swapping among farmers'll all
crops receive the attention they
should have at this season, Mr.
Snipes said.
Already many farmers have
called at the office of the county
agent asking that a combine own-
be contacted to harvest their
London, Monday.—Russian air
planes and anti-aircraft guns de
stroyed 548 German planes during
the week ended Saturday to bring
a six-week total of enemy crafts
knocked out to 3,369, Russia re
ported yesterday.
In addition to the 548 planes
officially claimed during the
week, many more were damaged
or destroyed in tour nights of
massed attacks on -enemy air
dromes, the Russian Sunday mid
night communique reported as
recorded here.
Russian losses during the
week totaled 153, to bring the to
tal of Red Air Forces planes lost
in six weeks to 893.
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U. S. Pilob Pick
Off 25 Jap Planes
Washington. — Navy, marine
and army fliers.^in a furions do*-
^ wtf Islands 8cx>i^ their seeOBd
smashing victory of the week over
the Jap’s Solomons air force yes
terday by knocking down 25 and
possibly 33 enemy Zeroes out of
an armada of 40 to 50, the navy
disclosed yesterday.
Six American planes were lost
but tour of the pilots were res
cued.
On the same day army Libera
tors Intercepted two Jap Mitsubi
shi bombers 20 miles west of Bu
ka Island in the Northern Solo
mons. One was destroyed. The
other presumably escaped.
The communique added that on
the night of June 10 Flying For
tresses and Avenger heavy torpe
do bombers straddled Jap posi
tions in the Bruin area, starting
fires.
In the North Pacific meanwhile
five new devastating raids were
made on Kiska, last enemy toe
hold in the Aleutians. Liberators
and medium Mitchell bombers, es
corted by Lightning and War-
hawk fighters smashed at instal
lations. scoring hits on the plane
runway end main camp area and
bombing and strafing barges In
harbor.
er
wheat crops, and many of them
have volunteered to swap labor
with combine operators if they de
sire that arrangement.
3 New Sunday
Schools Formed
FLYING FORTS
SUFFER WORST
LOSS IN RAID
Lleat. Walter
atrams ant American favoritM at a
U. 8. baae In Bnna, New Gninea.
Toning screws sre 25 caliber car-
teidres. s
Schools
ToOpra
Aug. 16
Rev. B. F. Livinalon Orga-
^nlzes Three New Sabbath
Schools In Mountains
Sherman Price, a first class carpenter’s mate in tho
Seabees batallions of the U. S. Navy, has written The
Journal-Patriot an appreciative letter from some undis
closed point in the Pacific.
The letter of the Seabees carpenter’s mate, a citizen
of the Pores Knob community before he volunteered for
service', follows:
“Just received a copy of The Journal-Patriot dated
May 6th. It got here a bit late, but I read it and passed
it on to the other'Wilkes men. They were glad to get
the home front news.
“In the edition we see the pictures of our county
agent, assistant agents, Carl VanDeman, Mrs. Sebas
tian and Mrs. Church. It makes us from Wilkes in the
service feel just g bit proud of ourselves to see and know
the people in Wilkes are cooperating in the food pro-,
gram so well. '
“We will work and fight gallantly for we know our
people back home are fighting a home front just as im
portant as ours abroad.
“I am smding a clipping from the Los Angeles Times
showing what we got mto when we went ashore, which
might be of sAme iatarost to you.**
Millers Creek Home
Club to Meet 16th
Time of meeting of the Millers
Creek home demonstration club
has 'been changed from Monday.
June 21, to Wednesday, June 16,
on which date the club will meet
at 9:30 a. m. at the school lunch
room to view demonstrations in
food canning and drying.
Mrs. Annie H. Greene, home
demonstration agent, said today
that all clubs will have theae dem
onstrations and announced other
meetings for this week as follows:
Roaring River Tuesday, two p.
in. at home of Mrs. L. W. Smithey;
Moravian Falls Wednesday, three
p. m„ St community building;
BoJlner Thursday, two p. m., at
home of Mrs., John Andrews;
Roaring Gap Friday, 2:30 p. m„
at home of Miss Alma Woodruff.
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It is reported that the food
jshortage in the U. S. .is due large
ly to Increased demands on the
part of the public, whose incomes
have jumped from OO'to' 13S
Mon dollars a year-; -
Rev. B. F. Livingston, of this
city, missionary of the Amerioan
Sunday School Union, has or
ganized three Sunday schools
during the past two weeks.
Mud Creek Sunday school was
formed near White Top, Va„ and
Apple Grove Sunday school was
also organized near the Carollna-
VirglniaMine.
On Sun^iy. June 13, Rev. Mr.
Livingston organized a Sunday
school at Greene’s Chapel on ihe
Grassy Creek road in Ashe county.
Recently' Carl Nungesser. of
Knoxville. Tenn.. district superin
tendent of the American Sunday
Wilkes county schools will
open their first nine-months
term on Monday, August 16.*
That date has been tenta
tively set as opening for the
1943-44 term, it was learn
ed today from C. B. Eller,
county superintendent of
schools.
According to the tentative
schedule, there will be one week
for Christmas holidays.
■ The 1943 legislature provided
for a nine-months term for the
public schools of the state.
During the vacation-months ef
forts are being made to secure
the necessary supplieife for the
coming term and to get sch'bot
equipment in as good condition
as possible.
A part of the coal supply has
arrived. Some of the shipment
was temporarily held up during
Allied airmen dropped
five and one-quarter thous
and tons of bmnbs on mili
tary objectives in Germany
and enemy occupied coun
tries during the week-end in
|-{ the most intensified bomb
ings of the war.
So great was the raids
that a total of 30 big U. S.
bombas were lost durag the
operations.
With Pantelleria, Lampe
dusa and Unosa Isluds tak
en by the Allies from Italy,
Allied planes from Tunisia
are now laying waste to
ports of Sicily, large islsusd
near the southern tip of the
Italian mainland.
London.—Two large ' forma
tions of Amarlcan heavy bombers
down many Geipiaf
,t, bases at Bremen and Keil
yesterday in the greatest air bat
tle ever waged by the 8th U. S.
Air Force.
The two sky fleets flew unes
corted to the heavily defended
North German bases for the
double-barreled daylight attack.
The cost was 26 four-engine bom
bers, the most severe loss ever
suffered by the 8th Air Force in
a single day’s operations.
“The attack occasioned the
greatest air battle in which 8th
Air Force heavy bombers have yet
participated and against the lar
gest concentration of enemy figh
ters,’* said the U. S. communique.
I Bremen and Kiel, which ac-
I counted for a considerable per
centage of the Nazi war machine’s
U-boat production and servicing,
“were bombed effectively and
many enemy fighters were de
stroyed.” the bulletin said.
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One ship can transport 6,000
can
barrels of dried
about one year’s
500 farms.
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whole milk—
production on
Rations
the brief coal strike but was re
leased and has arrived.
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Two Loical Men
Taken In Navy
Two North Wilkesboro youths
were accepted into the navy last
Shool Union for the middle At-’ ^reek and will, report to begin
lantic states, spent a week here training tomorrow.
with Rev. Mr. Livingston. Mr.
Nungesser said he wps w6ll pleas
ed with work of the union in this
district.
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MEMORY SYSTEM—
, Jane —What'S the piece of
string around your'finger for?
Mabel—Oh, that. Well, that’s
a knot. Knots are In wood.' You
cut WMd with a saw. Slaw makes
me thiiik of see .wkiek
w^tea. So ttiis Is to «atnd aie
pound of coffee today, -
''p
Joseph Huffman, recruiting of
ficer who spends Wednesdays.
Thutsdayand FrMeys at ttie North
Wilkesboro postofflce interview
ing men Interested In enHsUng in
the navy, reported that' Joseph
Lee Clements, son of Mrs. J.- L.
Clements, of this city, bod Griff
Wilcox, also of North ’Wilkesboro,
were accepted.' ’"
II II Aniyf*"!
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BLUE STAMPS—
(For canned, frozen and cer
tain dehydrated foods)
Blpe stamps K, L, M are good
until July 7.
COFFEE—
stomp No. S4 te War Ratloa
Kook One, good for one pound
of coffee, became vaUd May SI
and is good Uirongh Jane.
GASOLINE—
“A” book coupons No. 5 good
for three gallons each each and
mast last till Jnly 21. ’
RED STAMPS—
(For meat prodnets, canned
fish, most edible oils and cbeee-
es). -V
Red Stamps “J”, “K",
“M”, good throngfa June.
SHOES—
No. 17 Stamp in War Rntiom
Book One good for one pair
through June IS. No. 18 good
for one {wlr shoes Jane 14 to
Oct. 81.
SUGAR—
* stamp No. IS, good for B
pouadn, tMoomee vaHd >aae i
and to good torongh Angnat IB.
Stamps Nos. T8 and 16 be
War BaMojo-Bodk fltoe no#
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