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All Asked to Take A
Part In Campaign
- To Get Scrap
J. B. Snipes, Wilkes coun
ty salvage chairman, today
called attention to the scrap
drive which began October
1 end will continue through
Nbvember 15.
Mr. Snipes said that the vast
amount of scrap metals collected
in the newspapers scrap drive last
jail is now exhausted and that
steel mills must have a bountiful
supply of scrap to keep up pro
duction of war materials on
schedule.
EJvery person in Wilkes county
is asked to participate in this
cam»tl«n by gathering scrap
metal and bringing it into this
city. C. A. Lowe & Sons, local
licensed scrap dealers, are prepar
ed to accept any amount of scrap
To date no arrangements have
been made for collecting and
hauling scrap from various parts
of the county and the people are
asked to bring it in themselves
i^Arhenever possible.
Fmenl Rr J. fl.
Moore On Tvesday
Impressive Service At First
Methodist Church; Urge
Number Present
Pfc. Hugh Gambill, left, was a member of American
forces who rid Aftu island of the Japs in three weeks of
fierce fighting, and is now resting up at a Pacific b^
outside of the combat zone. Parts of a letter describ
ing some of the action on Attu are contained in an arti
cle elsewhere in this newspaper. At left is Pvt. Earl
Gambill, who entered the army in August, 1941. His
last letter home indicated he was ready to embark for
overseas duty. They are sons of Mr. and Mrs. W. W.
Gambill, of Dockery.
Total 11,353,697.25
Through Monday,
October 4th
Total For Wilkes Going Up
ward Toward One and
One-Half Million
ARMY RELIEF
PICTURE TO BE
SHOWN OCT. 17
AT THE ALLEH
This Is The Army’ Premiere
At The Allen Sunday
Afternoon, 17th .
in the
number of
An impressive funeral service
was held Tuesday morning at 11
o’clock «t the First Methodist
church for J. D. Moore, one of
the city's leading citizens
presence of a large
relatives and friends.
The service was conducted by
the pastor. Rev. A. C. Waggoner,
assisted by Dr. John W. Kinche
loe, Jr., pastor of the First Bap
tist church. The funeral mu.sic oy
the quartet composed of Mrs, W .
D Halfacre. Mrs Tal Barnes.
Mrs Ckiude Dougl.ton and Miss
Ellen Robinson. 'fUh Miss Lois
Scroggs accompanist, was beauti
ful.
A large number of the employes
of the Home Chair Company,
which Mr. Moore founded, with
members of their families, occu
pied a spwial section of the
church, and members of th"
church board of stewards were
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RECRUITER TO
iHMT WAVES
llliEciJIATS
Women Now May Have The
Choice of Several Jobs In
Woman’s Branch Navy
#
Navy Recruiter Joseph E. Huff
man, who spends Tuesday and
Wednesdays at the North Wilkes-
boro poBtoffioe, said today that
bis duties in the future will r/e
’mainly to recruit women tor the
WAVES.
He stated that any woman who
enlists now may be a member of
the hospital corps just by asking
for that assignment and there are
other-types of work which she
may choose. The navy is seeking
eervlces of many women from age
20 to 38 in order that many men
BOW held for the type of work
which women can do may be re
leased for sea duty.
All who enlist will be sent to
Hunters College in New York city
for at least one month, after
which they will be assigned to Ok-
Uhome A. A M.. University of
'Wlaooasltt or some other naval
goina of the tyPo* of
to w*jra
L. M. Nelson, Wilkes county
chairman for the Emergency
Army Relief orgwnization, has
announced that the premiere Imno;
fit showing of- "This Is-The-
will be at the Allen Theatre on
Sunday afternoon, October 17,
three o’clock, and will be entire
ly for relief purposes.
Army Emergency Relief is an
organisation operating within the
army, and renders aid to soldiers
and their families in case of emer
gency.
All proceeds from the piemlere
showing will go to the Army
Emergency Relief fund end no
one will receive one cent of profit
from the Sunday show. Tickets
have gone on sale at $1.10 each
^.nd all civic organizations ars
asked by the chairman to promote
the sale of tickets.
The picture, which is owned by
the army, was mode from Irvin
Berlin’s famous book by the same
name and he donated the large
sum received for picture rights to
the fund. Every premiere showing
throughout the country goes for
the fund, and 50 per cent of all
profits from regular showing fol
lowing the premieres.
While the ticket price of *1.10
seems high, Mr. Nelson said, all
are asked to regard it more os a
donation to the Aimy Emergency
Relief, which it really is, and Mr.
Nelson also called attention to the
tact that money spent for tickets
is deductible when income tax re
turns are made.
Mr. Nelson said that efforts ore
being made to secure a military
unit to visit this city on the date
of the premiere.
Buys $2,000 Bond
With Silver Coins
Postmaster J. C. Reins
reports a purchase of a
$2,000 ■war bond Tuesday
with silver coins ranging
in denomination of one
dollar and less. This is
the most unusual sale of a
war bond reported thus
far from the local post-
office.
Miss Alda Grayson
To Speak at Baptist
Meetings Here 11-13
Miss Ald«i Grayson, a returned
missionary from Africa, will be in
North Wllkesboro the first of the
week to speak at three meetings
of the First Baptist church. Miss
Grayson, who is being sent out
from headquarters in Raleigh,
will speak Monday afternoon at
the church at three o’clock to the
Junior Girls Auxiliary and the
Junior Royal Ambassadors, on
Tuesday evening at the church at
7:30 o’clock to the Woman’s Mis-
Biongry Unioni »nd «)n Wedne^y
threl’^o'clSct iStSitae^®
Girls Auxiliary and the Interme
diate Royal Ambassadors.
Dokies To Meet
North Wllkesboro Dokies Club
will meet Friday evenlag, seven
o’clock, at the Brown Hou.se. Ail
members are urged to attend.
HIGHER PRICES
AUTHORIZED IN
SOFTWOOD
BUYING AREAS
Total of war bond sales
in Wilkes county during
the Third War Loan con
tinues to mount, reports
today showed.
The official report from
the Federal Reserve Bank
to W. D. Halfacre, Wilkes
War Finance chairman,
showed a total of $1,353,-
697.25 through Monday,
October 4.
It is definitely kndwn
here that some reports
were not included in that
total, due to the fact that
they had not been sent in
prior to that date. How
ever, all sales through tilis
ifrill ..county op the
the county. -
The late reports are ex
pected to swell the tetal
well above the $1,400,000
mark.
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Sister of J. B.
Snipes Succumbs
Pvt. James .Nidiols, who
volrntcpred for service In the
niarlne corps in December, 1.**
now stationed at some point
overseas In the Pacific wai-
zone. Pvt. Nichols Is a son of
Mrs. Violet Nichols Welbom, of
Honda. Before entering the
service he made his home with
his grandparents. Rev. and Mrs.
James T. Nichols, of Wllkes
boro, route one.
WILKES LIQHOR
CASE RECEIVES
ATTENTION OF
GOVERNOR
Governor Expected To Make
Statement About Affair
After Trial of Yates
According to Lynn Niabet,
Raleigh newspaper correspondent,
the Wilkes liquor matter which
started with qeizure of a vast vol-
PMMtt tatiw To:
as official Baleigb Is concerned.
In his news dispatch Tuesday
Mr. and Mrs. J B. Snipes and
children on Monday attended fun
eral services at Bynum in Chath
am county for Mrs. Jessie Snipes
Jones, 41, slstei- of Mr. Snipes
and who died Sunday at Watts
hospital in Durham,
Mrs. Jones’ passing was the
first death in the family of niiie
children.
Washington. — Price increases
for softwood lumber produced in
tlie Middle .Atlantic and South
eastern States were authorized by
the Office of Price Administra
tion in a price schedule thi:t raises
ceilings by $4 per thousand board
feet for white pine and hemlock
lumber and $5 per thousand feet
for spruce.
Timber produced in Maryland.
Virginia, West Virginia. Ten
nessee, Kentucky, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Georgia is eli
gible for the price boosts.
The Oi^i->gctliNi brings prices
for theser^tee in line with cell
Ings established for similar lumb
er produced in New England. N^
York and-' Tennsyiyrtiia, ■ wWf^
the increase was authorized Sep
tember 13-,^
The increase In prices will be
passed along to the consumer,'
OPA said. Advances In nroductloii
cost had 80 reduced margins that
the old miailmum prices were un
fair and inequitable, the price
agency reported.
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In Hawaii
Nishet carried the following com
ment about the case:
“UNFINISHED—So fur as Gov
ernor Broughton and Attorney
General McMuIlan are concerned
the Wilkes county liquor trial is
very definitely in the status of
“unfinished business”. The Gov
ernor has on his desk the confi
dential report made by agents of
the State Bureau of Invistigatioii
covering the whole pe.'iod from
the time of the raid at ’hil Yates’
farm in June through , the recent
trial that resulted in direct ver
diets of acquittal hs to Lieutenant
Lentz of the Highway Patrol and
Agent Guy Scott of SBl on
charges of stealing about 90 cases
of confiscated liquor. The ver
dicts ended the matter so far as
that specific charge ugainsi the
two officers is concerned, but
! neither the Governor nor the At-
ioriiey General regards the whole
case as closed.
“PENDING— Phil Y 'es, alle.g
ed owner of the Illegal liquor and
reputed to be one of the State's
biggest bootleggers, is still absent
from the SUte so far as court of
ficials can Bscertain. Indictment
18 pending against him. and since
so much of the S.B.I. report deals
with his connection with th'te case,
the Governor deems it improper
i^inake it public nV.this time. Af-
tpt Yates' apprehdxHSldn and trial
the tJoverpor '-a expected to. make
whoife .iF
■ Jalr,-■-
.'learned that the Council of State
South Africa’s Salvation Army
recently celebrated its 15th anni
versary.
Pfc. George Wellborn, son of
-tlr. and Mrs. R. J. Wellborn, of
Honda, has been In the army for
the past 2 1-2 years and is now
In Hawaii, where he has' been
stationed for many months.
.has taken ho formal action on the
i question of paying defense cost.
'of the two officers. In fact, th-
' proposition has never been pre-
; sented and a penny will get e dol
lar It won’t be. Informally, the
Council members think It Is
matter for the General Assembly
Mtwe bonds for victory
Australiaiib Push On
Toward Supply
Base
Australian focees driving
into the Raxnu River valley
in New Guinea have advanc
ed seven milM from Kaig-
ulyu to Diniqm ia their drive
to cut off the hji^crartant Jap
anese coastal st^lpljr base at
Madstag, It was announced
today.
General Douglas MacArthur’s
communique ssfd that Allied
bombers and fightors carried on;
raids on Garove Island, north rf
Japanese held Nqw Britain, and
Kavieng on the north tip of N?w
Ireland 150 miles Irom the Jap
anese base at Rabaul.-
Allled heavy bombers attacked
the Japanese main line of com
munication from Madang to
Bogadjim, causing extensive dam
age.
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Capt. Johnston Over
City In Bomber
daiy on u
via Waah
and on
one of the trTps piloted the
bii;. four-motH?ed bomber
over the city several times.
Capt. Johnston, a veteran
fighter of the Pacific area,
is now stationed at the
Dayton, Ohio, air base.
SNIPES HEADS
BOARD LABOR
MOBIUZATION
IN THE COUNTY
County Agent Accepts Ap
pointment From Governor
J. Melville Broughton
J. B. Snipes, Wllkew county
farm agent, has accepted the ap
pointnient from Governor J. M.
Broughton as chairman of the
War Labor Mobilization Board
for Wilkes county. '
At the outset of the “Work or
Fight’’ movement Instituted in
the state some time ago by Gover
nor Broughton, C. T. Doughtou
was named as chairman but he
did not accept apd Mr. Snipes was
recently appointed to that posi
tion tor the cownty.
1 In maklng:’;tlin appointment
Governor 'Broughton staged to Mi'.
;Snlpes that th^duty dC-tbe,board
will be to enforce the edrergenc^
regulations recently passed by tb"
council of state to compel loafei-
and idlers to accept work.
Work of the committee will be
In close cooperation with the U. S
Employment Service office here.
Membership on the board for
the county will be recommended
by Mr. Snipes and apppintmentv
will be made by (Jovei^W Brough
ton.
Mail Overseas Christmas Packages Before ISth
If you do not mail Christ
mas packages to men over-
The announcement was made No doubt this Is due to procrasti
several weeks ago that Christ-‘ nation on the part of the people
mas packages to men overseas, at home rather than an nnwili-
seas before October IS there must be mailed before October 16, ingness to mail out the packages,
ia no' assurance that the:hut apparently the public has! But now only one week re
packages will be received by ignor^ th. warning mains lor mailing Christmas
Chnatmas Day. Thu raJe.jj^ye been mailed.
few
work
work. roomMM. storekeeper,
gUM teaching.
fudie.
dMOdiBf.
packages packages to men overseas In the
applies to army forces. You It Is very important that the! Christmas mailing to men In
men overseas not be forgotten. It the navy, marines and • coast
means much to them to know that j guard may be any time this
their relatives and friends remem-' month, not later than October II.
bered them in their Christmas | ’ Pollewing are excerpts from a
shopping. [Postoftlce Department^lletln
The dally volume of mall be- relative to Chrlatmaa imiUbif:
ins received .at poetofflees fwrl “It wte expected thaVreldUvee
men overseas so fdr has been leas and triende wdald idell
than half the asMaat expected; packagee to the eervioe nten «Hf
have until October 31 to mail
packages to members of the
Navy, Marine, and Coast
guard.
That is the subsUiiee of a.
wamhif isMsed by the poet-
ofHpe d^Murtawnt.
women In the more distant sta- their being received on time,
tiens In the opening days of the I “It Is admlttedly 'difflCnlt at this
mailing period, and thereafter early date to r«4W|^'’,tii.at the
the volume of Christmas packages) period of Chrlstanuil .'ttatUng >s
would Increase dally. Eeporu'here. But this fact most be Im
coming from key centers give
ground for fear than many thous
ands In the armed forces will be:
disappointed ■ on Christmas day.
We must remember that, arms,
munitions, and sapplies take pre
cedence over gifts In the allot
ment of shipping space. Beeaxtse
mail from home and Chiistmas
gifts fiott home are so important
to jototi xnd sromen ovwaeaa, it is
pressed on the minds of the public
in order that the'bn^e men and
women at the battle/fronts may
not be deprived qa; gffgbtxMt of
the glfU from their'onea at
home. ' Everythingmwt
be done to majpt^^Itelitohe^’ho-
tureen toose thT ‘’the
present trying ,’y
_ liifr* «-
ma
Argentina
impototive that those who idgn to- ganiaed a K-
gdgd ghto do to at oacejo -wra'^.
'L--’
Drive On Rome Beins
Continued By The
Allied Armies*
The Alliea have annoane-
ed the occupaAkm of aaother
half-dozen towns above Na
ples and crossing of the Vol-
tumo River at an unspecifi
ed inland point, but there
was no indication Isut nig^t
that Lieut. Gen. Mark W.
Clark had yet thrown the
full weight of hu Fifth Ar
my into pursuit of the Nazis
toward Rome.
The American commander ap
parently had been giving bis Sal
erno veterans a rest and awiait-
ing the arrival of heavy supplies
and reinforcements before re
newing his sledgehammer blows
at the retreating enemy. Dis
patches BO far had mentioned on
ly Allied patrols fanning out from
Naples.
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Jobi W. HaU 0i
John W. HaU Us been named
on the North ’Wllkesboro board of
education, succeeding Emmet C.
Johnson, who has moved to
Varnsville. S. C.
Mr. Hall, manager of Davis and
company store and who is well
known here, was appointed by the
city board of commissioners in
celled meeting Tuesday night.
The term of Mr. Johnson would
have expired in 1947.
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R. C. Jennings, Jr.,
Is Now Improving
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Jennings, of
Pores Knob, have received a let
ter from their son, T.. Sgt. R. C.
Jennings, Jr., 'who was badly
wounded in action in the Euro
pean area September 16. The let
ter staled that he was getting
along fine, but gave no debuls of
the extent of the injuries he had
received.
T. Sgt. Jennings was a gunner
and radioman on a flying fortress.
The letter received yesterday was
the first news received since of-
ficlai notification by the War De
partment that he was seriously
wounded.
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. Brazil now claims it possesses
’•he g-eatest industrial possibili
ties of any nation in South Afri
ca. .
SLiUAR—Stamp 14, good for
five pounds of sugar until af
ter October 31. Stamps 15 and
16 now may be used to obtain
sugar for canning, good for
five pounds each, valid until
October 31.
GASOLINE—Coupons No. 6
in A took good for three gal
lons became effective July 22
4nd will expire November 8..
SHOES--Coupon 18 in the
sugar and coffee ration book
valid for one pair of shoes has
no expiration date. No. 1 alr-
nlane stamp in took three be-
nome.s vaiM November 1 for one
pair shoes.
FOOD—Blue stamps U, V
and W valid through Oct. 20,
X, Y, Z valid from Oct. 1 thru
Nov. 20. Brown stamps C and ^
D in book three now valid; ex- ^
ptie October 86.
F”RL OlL-7-New No. 1 co»i
pon, Ck sa dtsheet. good tor Ik '
callona (1 wnlt), expiree Jan. i
t; new Ito-IA eoapon.'Ulam S
■beet, SkAndtoas («;
naits). earibw jhWMuy ?: aear i
Bo. 1Ctato 4 shear.
«DQd. tor flkl^BdUkas
sirttB). exptye JuHBiry A.