Must Give Evidence of
A Amoui^t Livestocic
Slaughtered
All butchers and local
ft
I
slaughters in Wilkes county
who hold permits from the
United States Government
to slau^^hter livestock are
being asked to submit by
August 2^ 1943, evidence of
the amount 'of livestock
slaughtered during the pe
riod upon which their cur
rent quotas are based, it was
announced today by Dr. M.
G. Edwards, chairman of the
War Meat Committee for
Wilkes county.
Xhis requirement Is in accor
dance with a ruling of the War
Food Aaminiatratlon. Purpose of
the ruling is to estahlish a more
uniform system of permits and
quotas and also to adjust those
quotas already issued in such a
way that they will be standarized
in all sections of the country. Be
cause of the rapidity with which
the permits originally were is
sued. the policy in granting the
quotas varied somewhat from sec
tion to section.
The new requirement is con-
ilned in FDO 27.3. Submission
,jf the evidence must be made to
the County War Meat committee
of the County War Boiard where
■the permits i^ere Issued. The evl-
4«nc«; wMch will form the basis
of any necessary adjustments in
quotas or quota bases, may in
clude: The applicant’s books or
records or statements of persons
from whom he has brought live
stock: grading certificates or in
spection records: or any other
evidence which the applicant con-
sider.s relevant.
Officials emphasized thrt in
furnishing slaughter records. lo
cal slaughterers and butchers
should realize that total sales of
meat are of slight value as evi
dence because it is difficuit to
segregate the amounts purchased
from amounts slaughtered hy the
applicant. Only the amount of
livestock owned at the time of
slaughter should be offered foi
consideration. Likewise, planf
capacity is of little significance as
evidence since very few plants
operate for an e.xtended period at
capacity.
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Flight Officer Hale Jones Is
herc^ on leave after spending
nine months in Ehigland with
the Royal Canadian and Ameri
can Army air forces.
.\fter spending two weeks
here with hi.s jiarents, DK and
Mrs. W. F. Jones, he will be ;is-
signed for further duty.
night Officer Jones volui.-
teered for service with the
RCAF early in the war and was
commissioned during the latter
part of last year and accom
panied Canadian forces to Ehig-
lund. where he transferred to
the America air forces In June
this year.
Althougli lie 1ms not been en
gaged in combat, Plight Offi
cer Jones, has had many inter
esting experiences In the ser
vice, especially while overseas.
Ernest D. Watson
Safe After Battle
Ernest 1). Watson, Wilkes
man who was a member of the
iTcw of the U. S. S. Helena,
cruiser sunk by the Japanese In
the Solomons engagement'sev
eral (lays ago. Is safe and well.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. O.
M. Watson, of Summit, received
a wtegtam from him ’gaiJ'Sil'!
Vo other details were given. Mr.
Watson expressed his opinion
that his son was rescued with
160 other members of the
Uclenr crew on ,7uly 17.
London. — Red Army troops
have captured Olazunovka, an an
chor point of the German Use at
the southeast corner of the Orel
Salient, and'have broken across
the Oka River at several points
notheaSt of the city in a new gen-
enal advance from 2 1-2 to 5 1-2
miles, a Russian special communi
que said last night.
Despite German resistance
which increased steadily, and the
handicap of pouring rain and
sticky mud, the Russians Swept
forward to take 30 villages end
towns Sunday, the special com
munique reported as recorded
from the Moscow radio.
The biggest specific gain of the
day was the capture of Glazunov-
ka, which broke the salient at the
southwest side 33 miles below
Orel. In Saturday’s fighting the
Russians hed taken the big de
fense point of Zmlevka, 12 miles
nor the Glazunovka.
But In addition the capture of
several villages on the west side
of the Oka northeast of Orel
meant that the Red Army had
smashed another German line
there and was in position to drive
down the’river.
Three Wilkes Boys
Two sons of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Church, of this city, are making
good rec^ds in army service. Pvt. James Edward Church, left, has
been assigned to the engineering school at the University of Mary
land. He entered the army on- November 21, 1942. _Cpl. Harlan
Church, right, is a member of a group in advanced, training in chem
ical warfare and is stationed at Camp Sibert, Alabama. CpI. Church
entered the army on February 24 this year.
United War
Relief Fund
Returns to Camp
Mrs. Cox, Aee 97,
Taken By Death
Mrs. Millie Carolina Cox, prob
ably the oldest resident of Wilkes
county, died Thursday at her
home In the Ferguson community.
Mrs. Cox, widow of the late
Montgomery Cox, was 97 years of
age She is survived by two
daughters. Mrs. T. B. Walsh and
Mrs C P- Horton, also five
grandchildren, eight great-gmnd-
"^hlldren and two great-great-
gfandchlldren. .
Funeral service was held Fri
day at Dunklrt church.
Three Wilkes seventeen-year-
old youths have been accepted by
the U. ^ Navy and have been sent
to the Naval Training Station at
Great Lakes. 111., it was announc
ed this morning by J. E. Huff
man, specialist recruiter. These
three are: Aaron Jacob White of
I Honda and Fred Lee Hall and W.
W'. Parrish, both of North WMlkes-
boro.
Recruiter Huffman will be at
the post office this week on
Wednesday ?nd Thursday only.
He will have one opening on Wed
nesday for the Naval Air Station,
Jacksonville, Fla., and will have
openings tor three colored seven
teen-year-olds desiring to go to
San Diego. Calif.
Recruiter Huffman is also
anxious to see high school grad
uates who finished high In their
clrsses who have not yet reached
their eighteenth birthday, and
who are interested In joining the
Naval Medical CSurps.
JThe minonarwrar Fund
committee anncUnced today
through T. E. ,Story, chair
man of.}Wilkes'County War
Relief Fund campaign tha^
the friends of Luxembourg,
Inc., has been admitted as
member agency, and will re
ceive funds from the $133,-
000,000 which is to be
sought in campaigns this
fall to render service on the
military front and the Unit
ed Nations Front.
! Work of the Friends of the
Luxembourg at present consti-
Tax Prepayment
Is Reported Good
Cpi. Hayden B. Jolnes recent,
ly spent a furlough wltli his
jwrent.s, Mr. and .xtrs. R. E.
Joines, who now live at Lenoir,
and has returned to Camp For
rest, Tennessee. CpI. Joines is
en|i;aged to Miss Madge Shu
mate, of North Wllkesboro
route one.
Farmers Vote For
I Quotas On Tobacco
! The vote in Wilkes on tobacco
'quotas was 469 for three-year
'control and only four against. Re-
I suits from all the tobacco belt
! were not available tbday but it
' was presumed that three-year
I quotas have been voted by a large
majority.
'onaty Accountant J. Mack
— re^wts prepayment of
1'
S county taxes to be good,
until the las* of the week, a
I urfxotimatliut $43,000 had
B reetdved by the county ac-
ntant from taxpayers who
e paid their 1048 county tax
irder to receive the discount.
• aoMmnt Is mndi
■ the amount--paid as of a
iiM. date last year.
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New Press Bou^
For Journal-Patriot
tutes relief to refugees from that
country, now occupied by Axis
forces. Refugees from Luxem
bourg are scattered all over
Europe and mony are in Latin
America and Cuba.
Other Participating agencies
are: United Service Organization,
United Seaman’s Service, W$r
Prisoners’ Aid, Russian War Re
lief, Inc., United China Relief,
Inc., British War Relief Society.
Inc., Greek War /Relief Associa
tion, Inc., Polish War Relief, Inc..
French Relief Fund, Inc., United
Yugoslav Relief Fund, Belgian
War Relief Society, United Czecho
slovak Relief Fund, Queen Wll-
helmina Fund, Norwegian Relief
Fund, Refugee Relief Jrustees,
Inc., U. S. Committee for Care of
European Children.
At Camp Edwards
Pfc. Willard H. Ma.sh ha.s re
turned to Camp Edwards, Ma.ss„
after spe,pdlng a few days with
hi.s parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. \V.
Ma.sh, of North Wllkesboro.
Annual Report
Of Wilkes Public
LibraryGiven
Report Shows Much Acti
vity and Large Circulation
During the Past Year
In the NfUFy
I Will Be Used In Newspaper
Department to Print The
Journal-Patriot
luit In Progress
1 ,
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Mrs. Virginia Spain-
irn of North Wllkes-
progress last week
resumed si the city
IT morning. Attor-
rj wnS Bpiiolnted by
Its to hear evidence.
Bont, by agreement.
>wer is suing the
for alleged water
roperty located on
The Journal-Patriot is toj
'be printed soon on a new
j press—a b'.g No. 1 Miehle,
j which has just been pur-
,chM^ from the Dodson
I Printers’ Supply Company of
Atlanta. ^
This new pr«M will lake
Ahe .place of the Crsoiston
drum - cylinder whidh him
been in use a number of
years and it is expected ftbat
it will be installed witbui
,Uie nest'jsixty days*
Miehle press weighs 11
tons which is small as com
pared to the presses used
by the larger dailies but is
much larger than those used-
by the average weekly or
semi • weekly newspaper.
This new press will print
four pages eight-columns
size, but no increase in the
present page size of the
Joumal-PatTMt is anti^s^
ed thtt:-6me^;
With
the new prus,’'an even be|i>.
ter newspaper service vdQlt
be reacted Hie Journal-
Patrkrt’s nuuiy subscribers
adwertiMrs.
tiie instaHatim 6t
Miss Lizette Stone, librarian of
the Wilkes Public library, has re
leased report of library activities
tor the fiscal year which ended
June 30.
The report of the libr,-ry show
ed .that the librnry ended the
year with 4,262 volumes, of which
number 1,582 were added during
the year.
The total number of registered
borrowers during the year- was
2 822.
Circulation of the library total
ed 31.758. of which 15,288 were
to adults and 16,470 to juvenile-
The library, which is located in
the North Wllkesboro town hall.
Is open every week day on the
following schedule: Monday
through Frldpy 10:00 e. m. to one
p. m.; two p. m. to five p. m. On j
Saturday the library is open from 1
WEDGE DRIVEN
INTO CENTER
OF AXIS LINE
Allied Headquarters, In
North Africa. —>■ Csmadisus
troops drove a wedge into
the center of the last Axis
lines in Sicily today despite
fierce resistance while the
British Eighth Army launch
ed a new attack on the ram
parts of Catania and Ameri
can forces swept eastward
to attack the enemy’s right
wing.
The full power of Allied land,
air and sea might was being
marshaled against the 2,000
square miles of northeast Sicily
which still barred the doorway to
Europe.
.Light British naval forces bom
barded Taormina, 20 miles above
Catania where they found coastal
guns firing inland in possible in
dication that the Allies had flank
ed Mt. Etna on the north.-
R. A. F. Beauflghters and
American A-36 Invaders kept the
ports of Messina and Mllazzo un
der almost constant attack and
naval units were roving the Mes
sina Straits without encountering
enemy surface opposition.
Fljrtng Fortresses, ranging on
their deepest mission Into Italy
from North Afrl», pounded Bolo-
MDOGUOIS
L(sii'dm.—Premier Benito
MuMolini, dictator of Italy
for 21 years, was forced
from office last night along
with his Fascist regime and
was replaced by Msurshal
Pietro Badoglio, one of his
bitterest enemies, who as
sumed leadership of a mili
tary government and an
nounced that Italy would
continue fighting. '
King Victor Emmanuel, to
whom Badoglio had been an inti
mate friend and staunch suppor
ter throughout the Fascist re
gime, assumed chief command of
the armed forces.
The King’s ‘‘acceptance of Mus
solini’s resignation’’ was an
nounced by the Rome radio and
recorded here.
Hours afterward, no German or
German-controlled radio had an
nounced the fateful news.
AXIS CRACKED
WIDE OPEN—
It seemed certain that the Axis
had cracked wide open.
’There was no Immediate word
of Mussolini’s personal fate—
whether he had simply retired,
whether he was under some form
of -arrest, whether he sought to
from North Africa, pounded Boio-_ 1. .u. . n „
gna in the northeast for hourr th>. coifn^ry, possibly to Ger-
without the Italians putting, up a
tighter plrne or flak burst
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Ally. MarionAllen
Is Speaker Friday
At Kiwanis Meet
nin€ ft. ni. to three p. id.
Cow Tails Cut Off
'Smi diifs, biifs retameil 4o tiie
temti stiitiou at
mL after
-Merc ’witb Ills Mker,
Baihecn, of Witter. Biun^w
jBMtaMro .y^uBtoeied Sur Mr*
-„viw i« PobnMwy Ute fmr.
Mr. and Mrs. Thurmoji
SpaAs, well known re^'-
dents of AntioA town
ie, ship, would be weiT gUd
^Mued to find out the nar- ’
tv or oarties guilty of cut
ting off the taftt it'***
covrs "taMi' Tuteftsy
'"Slirifr PonuInMr ^
ntromous "7^
"no wpiust# lift biwB
UP ttariH todsy, otnenn
North Wllkesboro Kiwani.s club
on Friday enjoyed an interesting
program.
The club members also enjoye'i
the presence of a number of dis
tingiiished guests.
Capt. Richard Johnston, hen'
on leave from fighting Jups in
the South Pacific area, made a
short talk expre-sslng appreciation
for the support this community is
giving the men on the fighting
fronts and in the army camps.
Program Chairman Genio Card-
well presented Mrs. Fred Hemn-
hill, who sang “The Rose of Tra
lee” ond “Beautiful Dream Land"
He then rsked his guest. Rev. A.
C. Waggoner to present th'*
speaker. Attorney W. Marion Al
len. of Elkin.
After his usual humor, Kt-
wanian Allen read the objects
from article II of the Kiwanis
Constitution, and then made a
very splendid and patriotic talk
with these objects as « basis fo.-
world living. He Indicrted th"**
there are now approximately 118.-
000 members of this prganizatio-
In 2,200 clubs in the United
States and Canada and that there
are 45.000 of them in the Caro
llna District and all of whom have
,.'s their first matter o1 Interes:
and importance, the winning of
the war at the earliest date poss*
hie. KiwSnian Alien stated th"
the morale of Kiwanians is a
reat influence in butldins e com
mnnity wide morale that '.vlll ri'^
\“se'(surably in '4.he winning of
eonfllct: He thinks it Is im
portent that we should be inter-
psted*now and making plans as fe
how we shall make the world
peace after the flghUng la over
Our democracy must be preserved
and the other peoples of the eart*-
must be lifted to higher levels o'
Hying.
’ Geests were as follows: J. C.
Pelns had Nrvy Recruiter Jo.-n’
Huffman: Gordon Finley had Pf"
Gordon Ogilvle; S. V, ToufHu«ir
bad Ray'Srilllvan: Pat WAllama
had Joinmand«r Paul Anderaon
a&jf >8.: T. S
many or neutral Switzerland.
Six days before his eclipse,
Mussolini had conferred in
Northern Italy with Adolf Hitler,
while American planes were
bombing Rome, and apparently
his fate was sealed by the refusal
of Hitler to go to his support with
troops, machines and arms to de
fend Italy rgainst an expected in-
, vasion.
News of the great overturn
swept Europe and even Russia
gave it" first place in its bro:yl-
ea.sts to Russian provincial iiew.s-
paners. rrlegoting its war com
munique to second place.
LEADERS MUST
DECIDE FATF—
It was now up to the King and
Badoglio, trying to rally the
napickv Italian neople to the royal
standard, to decide the nature
and extent of the fight they would
put up as heads of a non-Fascist,
Italy for-Itallans Government, be-
fnro they gave the unconditional
surrend-r whfeh faced them in
the end.
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The Bureau of Agricultural
feconomics has reported that in
come from fi rm marketings was
1,393 .million dollars for May
1943 as compared with 993 mil-
lon dollars for May 1942.
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Rations
B; CauStfl bad XI
vatQftan Looft .titerdit, ot Brlatol,
TtBB.; f B* HK baiOpt Bleh-
gdl johOBlOB au4 A. ®. J^pbwttor
'■nmtf Cardvdl ted Rev. A. C,
,Whi$6aeti, Ufa., l^d H«mphlU
bb It***
BLUE STAMPS—
(For canned, frozen nml «a
tain dehydrated foods)
Stamps N, P, Q, becam- »'■>«-
tiv« /ply 1 and remain sa an
til Anffost 7.
COFFEE— „ .
stamp No. 22 in War KaCloK
Book One, good for one ponn«
of coffee, became valid Jaly 22
and Is good through Aug. 10.
GASOLINE—
“A” book coopon* No. 6 good
for three gaDons each and mniu
last till November at.
RED STAMPS— _
(For meat peodneta, eannea
ftoh. most edible oOs and cheee-
•).
Red Btampe P- Q. K.
fjbpd dvougfa July SI.
S. are
bsftt-ilteteod ter—»
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tee •
valift Atee I
_ I'Ancmd fS
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