LL Bkviis Gets
Medal, duters;
Oom Ok Pfiae
SOVIETS POSH
OUT 12 MILES
y» Man Making Excellent
Record on Bombing Raids
Over Enemy Territory
First Lieutenant C. E. Blevins
ht-s been awarded the air medal
and three clusters for participa
tion in several bombing raids
over enemy territory in Europe
and for the destruction of one
enemy aircraft.
Lt. Blevins, son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. C. Blevins, of Hays, re
cently was promoted to his pres
ent rank at an airfield in Eng
land, where he is based as navi
gator of “Carolina Boomerang”,
flying fortress piloted by First
Ldeutenont R. L. McRae, of
Greensboro.
Lt. Blevins entered the army in
April, 1942, and received his com
mission in April, 1943, after com
pletion of the navigation course
at Monroe, La. Recently he com
pleted the required number of
raids over enemy territory tb en
title him to return home on leave
from combat duty but he remain
ed with his crew.
The Fortress on which Lt.
Blevins is navigator, and all crew
members, were recently photo
graphed for news reel purposes
and will also be used in connec
tion with the Red Cross campaign
in March.
In an all-out offensive to free
Leningrad completely from t^o
and one-half years of siege, the
Red Army smashed 12 miles for
ward yesterday, seizing by storm
two key fortress towns and blast
ing through an intricate maze of
Steel and concrete fortifications
before running up against a sec
ond line of equally strong per
manent defenses ringing the city’s
suburbs.
A second drive, closely co-or
dinated with the first, ripped 19
miles across three strategic rail
ways in the Volkhov River-Lake
Ilmen area 75 to 100 miles south
of Leningrad in a broad outflank
ing movement.
Reporting that the Leningrad
thrust had captured the fortresses
of Krasnoye Selo and Ropsha and
in five days had killed 20,000
Germans, the Soviet communi
que dwelt at length on the Ger
man fortifications. Soviet in
fantrymen, tanks and mobile ar
tillery, it said, “broke through
heavily fortified permanent Ger
man defenses made up of rein
forced concrete pillboxes, ar
mored domes, blockhouses and
Inter-oommunioatlon trenches cov
ered by mine-fields, barbed wire
entanglements and anti-tank ob-
LOCAL MARINE TELLS OF THE
iRVASKM OF BOOeAMVILLE
Stacies”.
0. S. PLANES
RAID RABAUL
ScIimI Cafeteria
Is Opened Today
196 Children Served Hot
Li»nch on Opening Day;
Open House Friday
h
North Wllkesboro school cafe
teria opened today and served
lunch to 196 students.
Equipment for the cafeteria
was purchased with funds raised
by the North Wllkesboro Wom
an's Club. The establishment will
be operated by the city board of
education, which has employed
Mrs. Claude Gentry as manager,
and its operation will be In co
operation with the North Carolina
Child Feeding program.
A hot plate lunch consisting of
one meat, two vegetables, fruit,
butter, bread and milk is served
for 15 cents.
Open house for public inspec
tion will be observed at the school
caifeterla Friday night, 7:30 un-
nlne o’clock. Ml school patrons
are invited. ^
Money can buy bonds.
Eight Japanese merchant ships
were caught in Rabaul Harbor by
a strong force of American planes
and blasted with 1,000 and 2,000
pound bombs, despite intercep
tion by 100 Zeroes, General Doug
las MacArthur reported today.
Twelve Hundred miles to the
northeast other United States
bombers hit Knsaie in their first
raid on the Caroline Islands, bul
wark of Japan’s mld-Paclflc de
fense line.
Torpedo and dive bombers,
heavily escorted by fighters, hit
three ships squarely with their big
bombs in Rabaul’s harbor. The
boats exploded and sank. 'Two
others were left in flames and
probably sinking and the remain
ing three were damaged.
In the accompanying air battle,
between 18 and 33 Japanese
Zeros and 12 American planes
were shot down.
This was the first mention of
the use of 2,000-pound bombs by
South Pacific bombers. It was
their second big raid reported this
week on shipping at the New
Britain stronghold. Monday, Mac
Arthur reported, seven cargo
ships, a cruiser and a destroyer
Larg« QiaDtities
WhKt Arrived to
^ 0^ for Food
Nm« Carloiula Here end Five
More On Way; Good
Quality Wheat $1.39
Wilkes county Triple A office
is receiving large quantities of
wheat to be aold solely for feed
purposes, S. L. Turner, Triple A
executive officer, said today..
Mr. ’Fumer said that nine cars
have arrived and five more are on
the way. The wheat is of better
quality than the government
wheat which had been received
here and poultrymen and stock
raisers are urged to fill their
needs now while the wheat is
available.
The price now is |1.39 per
bushel. Parmere may make pay
ment at the Triple A office in
Wllkesboro and secure the wheat
at the railway yard In North
Wllkesboro.
Labor Recroitors
Norfolk, Langley
Field Are Here
PriNofABeiid
SheiMBnyHew
Wflkee Quota I» $843,000;
County Organiiation
Beghu Work
Seek Workers Many Tirpes
of Work at Navy Yard
and Air Station
were bombed there.
Report Clerk of
Court Published
Account of Funds Held By
Clerk of Court Listed On
Pages Six and Seven
Today The Journal-Patriot is
publishing the annual report of
Olerk of Court C. C. Hayes.
'The report, made as of De
cember 1. 1943, as required by
law, lists the funds held by the
clerk of court in the cases on rec
ord and for the parties Involved.
Persons who discover by the
report that funds are being held
for them should make a notation
of the docket number and cose
number before calling at the
clerk’s office for the funds.
^ gpewwr McGmdy, Jr.,
tna zwoeatty * »»
iKb wttR his pawata Mr.
^ Speaoer BfcOnidy, la
at Grand lalaad.
at aa amy air twae.
McOrmilr’* ** ^
f Vaii
Pvt. George D. Miles, son of
Mr. and Mm R. F. MSea, of
Badleal, la bow atatSoaed at
camp Fanntag, Texaa. ms wife
Is the former Miss Jeanette
Sfamaate, of Hays. PvA MBes
eateeed sewlee la. Mettamher,
IMS, at Feet gackam, 1. O.
CORPORAL W. JAY HUDSON
Buy Bonds To BocAMKk4Hi^Ao[|
CpI. Hudson Describes In Letter Home;
Wilkes Men Fighting Oaliantiy Abroad
Jap planes, Jap dive bomber^ znipers, cut-throats,
jungles, swamps, water neck deep, mosquitos, fever,
sores, stinking dead Japs, and earthquakes. Those are
some of the things fighting men like W. Jav Hudson,
pictured above, are going through. f
The Fourth War loan campaign, which l lgan Tues
day, gives you opportunity to back up those figfitmg
men with your dollars, at no risk to yourself or your
Labor recruiters from the Nor
folk navy yard and from the naval
air station at Langley Field have
arrived at the North Wllkesboro
bnanch of the U. S. Employment
office for an indefinite stay to
secure skilled and unskilled labor
in the area served by the local of
fice. ^
The representatives are Stuart
M. Pervlance, of Langley Field,
-Raymead- K' ZIOTia «sd -Milton B.
Claud, 01 tlia mavy yard.
They will accept men and wom
en, skilled and unskilled, for the
many types of work available.
Good housing conditions are as
sured workers and transportation
facilities to and from place of
work are assured. Those accept
ed for work will be furnished
transportation from North Wilkes-
boro to Norfolk or to Langley
money.
Following is a letter received by Mr. and Mrs. Dan
Hudson, father and mother of Cpl. Hudson, which de
scribes his part in the victorious invasion of Bougain
ville island:
“This la my first letter in a
long time, so I’ll try to make it
good. I really don’t have a good
excuse for not writing before, but
you might call the following an
excuse.
“If you remember, Bougainville
was hit and hit hard sometime
back. Well, I was there with the
very first bunch. The Japs open
ed up on us with all that they had
and I sure thought for awhile that
there we had bit off more -than we
could chew. When all those Jep
planes dived out of the sky on top
of us things looked bad, hut the
marines with their machine guns
just didn’t miss. Some of the Jap
planes were too high for the boys
to shoot down, but our own planes
dived in on them, and you should
have seen those dog fights. The
Jap planes always came down in
flames It Is no He about Jap
planes exploding in mid-air for I
have seen more than one do just
that.
Tt was another great day for
ns marines, but not for all, be
cause some didn’t even get to
shore.
“Well, we got In and the action
really started. One bunch of
marines was cut off and the nips
were going to town on them. Then
the word came down that they
needed our help, and yon should
have seen us going into action.
We really did a job on them, all
right.
Not long after we had been In,
the Japs got the bright idea to
lend troops behind ns. I was in
just a vei*y few yards from them
as they came in., We let them get
In and then we opened up on.
them. Another sad day for the
Nips!
, “The dead Japa lay on top of
the ground tor
oonld even bury them. Boyt,
What a Btinklng men! Hi(»e daya
will live In my mind Jonver.
For the first tew daya ira jewes
In Texas
mud up to onr waMti.' We
on flel4 ratfona voOk mo SPt .tha
(Conttnaor cm faM ia«r>
Pvt. Ooy B. Poteat Is now
stationed at Oamp BarkMey,
Texas. He entered service in
September, 1948. His wife and
small son, Obailes, wiio form
erly lived here, are now mak
ing their home at Union Grove
with Mrs. Poteat’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. F. Lawrence.
Farm PlaBRing
Meets Planned
Three home demonstration clnb
meetings are scheduled for next
week meetings will be for
arm planning to meat food goals
days, heforo wu}«ad men are also aakad to attend.
The'maetinim 'rrtll he held aa
Hunting CraMc ehUi «a
If^jaay at tescon’a ataM. t«o p.
in the swampa ond’lit mnter fJOraath at Hendram'g atafe,
i.' • iiwiTiii
WadiWBdmr at two p. v.; hMhat-
at hoots hf-
Friday at two p. m. - ,
Lt. Ralidi I. Bowman, son of
Mrs. Ralph Bowman, Sr., of this
city, has sncoeesfally completed
the Army Air Forree advance
flying'school training at Gaud
ier, Arizona, and has been com
missioned a second lienteriont.
Lt. Bowman is a graduate of
North Wllkesboro hlgdi school.
He also attended the University
Of North Carolina and Los An
geles, Ualiromla, city College
before enlisting In the air corps.
He Is a pilot.
Polio Campaign
Gets Under Way
In The County
Half of Funds Raised Will
Be Used To Help Victims
Infantile Paralysis Here
Field.
Girl Scouts Selling
Bonds In Campaign
Members of Girl Scout troop
number 2 in Wllkesboro will sell
War Bonds during the Fourth
War Loan, Miss Mary Charles
Alexander, troop leader, said to
day.
The girls plan an intensified
campaign.
RATION NEWS
FUEL OIL—^Attention of all
users of fuel oil is called to the
fact that supplementary fuel
oil rations cannot be issued to
those who are using fuel oil in
greater amounts than their al
lotment provides for.
SHOE BESTRIC’nONS—Ra.-
tionlng boards cannot issue
shoe stamps to men In service.
Men in service desiring to pur
chase shoes should obtain buy
ing permit from commanding
officer.
TRUCK GAS—Truck opera
tors who fail to call for their
first quarter gasoline coupons
will have their ration deleted
for the amount of time elapsed
since January 16.
SUGAR—Book 4, stamp 30,
good for five pounds, will ex
pire March 31.
GiLSOIilNB—Coupons No. 8
,ln A book good for three gal
lons became effective Nov. 9
and will expire February 8.
SHOES — Coupon 18 in the
sugar and coffee ration book
valid for one pair of shoes has
no expiration date. No. 1 air
plane stamp (n 'book three be
came valid November 1 tor one
pair shoot.
POOD—Brown aUmpe, Book
3, R, S, T, U, expire on Jan. 2P.
Green stamps. Book 4, proceee-
ed foods, D, B and F exi^re on
January 20. O, H, and J ex
pire February 20.
Organization for the annual
campWglU'to raise funds' ’With'
which to fight infantile paralysis
In Wilkes county has been com
pleted under the direction of C.
B. Jenkins, Jr., county chairman.
While no President’s Ball is
planned this year, opportunities
In many ways will be presented
the people of the county to help
raise the quota of $920.
Of that amount, $460 will be
used in Wilkes county for reha
bilitation of infantile paralysis vic
tims. During the past year many
cases have been helped materially
through the use of funds raised
in the January, 1943, campaign.
A report on the activities will he
given later from the records of
Mrs. W. R. Absher, secretary-
treasurer of the county organiza
tion which administered funds to
the cases as certified by the coun
ty health department.
Miss Janie McDiarmid has been
appointed chairman of the cam
paign in Wilkes by Mary pickford,
national vice chairman in charge
of the women’s division of the
campaign.
She has appointed the foll^^wlng
women workers in Wilkes: Mrs.
R. C. Jennings, Pores Knob; Mrs.
M. F. Bumgarner, Millers Creek;
Mrs. Jim Somers, Wllkesboro:
Miss Clara Ogllvle, Oakwoods;
Miss Zelle Harris, Roaring
River.
•V
’The Foartk War Loaa cam
paign is now under way.
During the Fourth War Loan,
which opened ‘Tneeday and will
continue through February 29,
people of the nation are asked to
loan 15 billion dollars to the
government for financing the war.
Wilkes county’s part of that
amount is $843,000.
W. D. Halfacre, who successful
ly led the first three War Loan
campaigns, Is again chairman.
With purchases by banks not
permissable in this campaign,
raising the quota means the com
bined efforts of all who oaa hay a
War Bond of any price from
$18.75 up.
It Is required that more than a
fourth of the quota be in the form
of small bonds purchased by indi
viduals.
It is the patriotic duty of every
persons who can buy a bond to
buy now, while the money is so
badly needed to finance the
knockout blows against the nazls
and Japs.
.And not only the war bond
buyers help the all-out war ef
fort, they help themselves.. Buy
ing bonds wards off inflation,
which is disastrous in its effects,
and it provides future savings at
good Interest rates for those who
buy.
Mrs. Edd P. Gardner and Mrs
Gordon Finley have charge of the
house to house canvass in North
Wllkesboro.
For the county the district
school principals will be district
chairmen. They will name au
thorized workers, who will take
subscriptions and money for
bonds, which will he mailed direct
to purchasers by the Hank of
North Wilkesboro.
With this organization a contest
will he waged among the districts
in the county and the public will
be informed through this 'news
paper of the standing from time
to time.
People who are buying regular
ly on a payroll savings plan are
asked to buy an extra $100 bond
before February 29.
See your bank or postofflce to
day.
BUY MO”.E WAR BONDS
Why delay?
State Guard Te
Enlist Members
North Wllkesboro company of
the State Guard twill put on e
membership drive Saturday.
An officer of the company will
be In the armory over the Rex-
all Drug Store Saturday from ten
a. m. until four p. m. to take ap
plications of men who will enlist.
Men from 18 to 45 may enlist In
the company and a daulflcatlon
of 4F is not a bar to membership
in the guard unless there is some
crippling disability.
A supper 'will be served the
new members of the company af
ter drill Monday evening.
CHEATWOOD TWINS IN SERVICE
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into thq-iervio*
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