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>XXXYHI, No. 79 THE JOUBNALJPAIWOT HAS MJliSBD THU TB^ OF PBO®ttBS*I!f THfi WATE OF WILKES" FOB OVBE^87 YEABS ? i- ■ ■--. ■ , r lhibBihoSTMondU^/ind Thm-tShij^ w^IRi CV 9WB0 Kuehdoe, As Visits Londoti^ I ptrFjjii^ Speaks ^^Rod CroM War Fund Cam- paign Will Open Here [>' On March 1st Dr. John W. Kincheloe, Jr., n^ call chairman of the Wilkes chafer of the American Red Croas, said in an address before the North Wllkeeboro Lions Clnb Frldar oTenlng that Wilkes coun ty’s qnota in the Red Cross War %fnnd drive next month has been $18,200. Jncheloe used “Drives end !is” as the subject for his Bs. He pointed out that drives and campaigns by military forces of our country necessary for success In com- and to the same extent and campeJgns are equally ssary on the home front. Red Cross War Fund drive. Incheloe said, will begin on bh 1. The national quota is $200,000,000, which represents an increase of 70 per cent over the quota for last year. Wilkes county’s quota of $18.- 200 this year is in line with the increase in the national quota. The quota for Wilkes last year was $10,000, and over $15,000 was raised in the campaign. Dr. Kincheloe cited the follow ing record of Red Cross accom plishments during the past year: U. S. servicemen given personal aid, 3,800,000 by camp end hos pital workers, 2,500,000 by chap ter home service; 5,000,000 pints of blood collected; 350 overseas clubs for servicemen and women; 60,000 nurses recruited for the Army and Navy; 65,000 volunteer nurse’s aides trained for service; tl$,000 persons aided in disas ters; .119J)00 persons aided In $1,090 oinriysrs of ITc. Andiie F. McNeil, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. McNeil, of this city, stationed somewhere In Eingland, has recently en joyed an e4d*t-day fnrlongh in London. While In london, he visited The American Bed Ooss and says he received ipach hos pitality. He has been in Eng land nine months and is getting along fine. The picture above was made in London. ELITE TROOPS OF GESTAPO’S HEAD ATTACK Powerful German forces, in cluding “Himmler’s own” elite S3 troops thrown into their first ac tion In Italy, are savagely attack ing the inviaslon bridgehead below Rome, and Allied headquarters said Fifth Army men had “adjust ed and nenaoUdated** tb#r PPsl- 0,000 garments made; 1,500,- 0 first aid certificates award- : 300,000 home nursing certi- floates issued; 5,300,000 prison ers of war packages packed; $77,- 000,000 foreign war relief distrib uted. The program at the Lions’ meeting Friday evening was in charge of Attorney J. Allie Hayes and M. B. McNeill. Attorney Hayes introduced the speaker. Prior to the program nine new memberu were taken into the club and were Inducted by H. H. Cobb. The new members are Staton Mc- Iver, Shoun Kerbaugh, J. Roby MeNelll, Claude Key. A. L. Foster, W. C. Prevette, 0. L. Gibson, J. C. Arledge and S. L. Turner. Oth ers who were recently received into membership In the club were Attorney Eugene Trlvette, W. J. Jester, Paul Greene and J. Mack RaiMs. J. G. Blackwood, form erly & member of the Lions Club at Cherryvllle, has transferred his L^mmubershlp to the North Wllkes- IP^ro club, which is now one of the Ijk^iaadlug Lions Clubs in this part ‘ of the state. Henry Lunsford Is Claimed By Death Funeral service was held Satur day at Shady Grove church for Henry Lunsford, age 70, citizen of the Somers township who died Tlinrsday at his home. Rev. L. T. Younger conducted the last rites. flvlng Mr. Lunsford are one br, Frances Lunsford, of and one sister, Mrs. Joe , of Hiddenite. fled, hut front dispatches indicat ed British lines had been shorten ed north of Oarroceto (Aprils), 21 miles below Rome, under Nazi counterblows. Community Meet At Mountain View By J. B. SNIPES, county agent; Mrs. .ANNIE H. GREENE, home demonstration agent; H C. COLV.AKD, assistant ctunty agent; JAMES E. ROLLINS, as sistant county agent. Mountain View community meeting is scheduled (or Thurs day, February 10th, at 8 o’clock p. m. at the lunch room. All community and neighbor hood leaders and other farm men and women who are Interested in building up their community are urged to be present at this meet ing. We are expecting au extension worker from the state office who will assist us in leading a discus sion on “How to Produce More Food and Feed Per Acre’’. We would like for all farm families to come prepared to pre sent their farm problems, so they can be discussed openly, which will be beneficial to all of u® V Duncan Child Dies Last ritee were held Sunday for Marie' Duncan, Infant daughter of Roby and Jane Davis Duncan, of Reddles River township. Idle child died Satnrday. interest Increasing; In Work Of Tlie ■Tri-Creek Soil Conservation District Names of subscribers to The Journal-Patriot are beinK removed from the mailing lists as the sub scriptions expire. Fdbru- ary 10 will be the last is sue mailed to subscrip tions dated 2-44 on the la bels unless renewal sub- scriptiohs are paid before that date. On March 1 all sub scriptions dated 3-44 will be removed unless renew ed. ^ -V- FBI Agent Makes Appeal to Save Youth From Ruin Roy L. Morgan Delivers A Stirring Address Friday Noon At Kiwanis Meet The Tri-Creek Soil Conserva tion District has • Just completed its best year since its organization, according to Mr. Paul Church, member of the Board of Super visors for Wilkes County. The District, an orgsfuzation of farm ers to promote soil conservation good land use, has completed 7 soil and jnbisture conserva- „8 covering 162,330 acres of _ id, he aaid. These plans include gp-h conservation practices as ter- ntdng; cn^ping; good ro tations; use of winter cover crops; woodland improvemKit to improve tbs stand and to obtain pulp Stood; and the establiriunsnt and tgptovwBent of pasture aild hay |M|nd Conservatioa psnctlces are ■ a great help to ffotaWs in facreas- b|g per acre yMdsiC as to xmdC {Mr .war gMlg IKiii ' (Bd figures showing that conservation farming has helped farmers in crease their yields from 10 per cent to 50 per cent per acre. Mr, (Jhurch also said- the District was making every effort to meet the demands of farmers for the serv ices of its technicians, but with the loss of trained technicians to the armed forces It was becoming increasingly difficult. If farmers c^plying tor District work would apply in small neighboibocd groups more work could be ae- complished with available techni-^ cal service. 'Hit DisMct is made up of WB- kes,.Surry, Forsyth, and Tadldhi Counties, and is contndled by a Board of Supervisors elected fay the farmers. The Boi^,qanabti of Paul CSiUTch, Wilkey Co0^: CL H. Hutdiens and JSjMb 'idu Coimtyr H;' B. S. Bam», Stttvy Gbo of the State Guard, to OapL John L. Wells, commander of ^e North WiikesDoro company of the guard, calling attention to the small number of members of the local company. The club was ask ed to encourage membership in the local military unit. Dr. John W. Morris was receiv ed into membership in the club. P. W. Eshelman presented the membership button after appro priate induction remarks. Program Chairman Gwyn J Gambill asked Joe McCoy to pre sent his speaker, S. B. I. Agent Morgan, of Greensboro. Mr. Mor gan brought the club an interest ing message on the subject: “From The Sandlots To Majors In Crime.” He said after the last war, the gangsters were in the main from the juveniles who were on the streets during the years of the war. He says It is not hair to charge it up to the returning sol diers at that time, nor will it be true to do so after the close of the present conflict He says again the criminals will come from those who are running footloose ,on the streets at night and in the places where they should not be now. He says Juvenile delinquency Is due In a large measure to the neglect of the parents. He told the story of Boy Mayes and his gang as they killed and robbed and committed one major crime after another un til they were captured and put to death. They were in the main from respectable homes and were juve- hile delinquents in the last war. He also told the story of Billie May Shybal, a beautiful girl end woman, who became one of our major woman criminals. She even tually came Into the tolls of the law. He says since the present war began Juvenile girl delin quency has. iiysreased 70 percent and hoy delinquency 26 percent. He urged the club members to exercise their Influence to save the youth. Guests Friday were as follows: John B. Justice, m, with his father, John E. Justice, Jr.; Carlyle Ingle with 8. V. Tomlin son; R. L. Morgan, J. B. Walker, C. O. Horton, W. C. Thomas, R. I. Driver, C. B. Grsybeal and Pa trolman Radcliff with Qwyn J. Gambill. V Pvt. Ivai Eller Is Woaaded If Aetioi l-CI hooks which were issued to men who have later been inducted and members of families of men who enter service are requested to turn in thlr books immediately. V Roy L. Morgan, agent of the Federal Bureau of Inveetlgaton, in an address Friday before the North Wllkeeboro Kiwanis club cited Increase in Juvenile delin- quehey and urged that the youth of the natipn be saved from crime and ruin. Prior to the program a number of matters of interest were taken up. Dr. A. C. Chamberlain called octteQtioa of the olob to the dirty McHre than 1,600,000 Boy Scouts, Cubs and their adult volunteer leaders will observe Bdy Scout Week, Feb. 8 to 14, marking the 34tb anniversary of the founding of Scouting in the United States. Since 1910, more than 11,400,000 American boys and men have agreed that— “It’s Great to be a Scout"! Locally the Boy Scouts are plaxming a number of Boy Scout Week events. On Fri day afternoon Scouts will tsJee over the city government. Window displays will portray the value of Scouting, and on Sunday night Scouts of troop 36 will attend the eve ning serrice at the Presbyteriani church in a body. According to a telegram re ceived iby his wife, Pvt. Ivan Eller was on January 14, wounded in action In Italy. - J Pvt BD$ir entored the servlee March 1^3,. 194S« and sailed for. ovenwaa in Sept«nhef, 1S4S.;.' V . ' III.M I' i Paper fieVe in Saturdays will begin Boy Scouts paper salvage in North Wilkes- boro Saturday, February 12. During the past several weeks a public demand (or some means o( disposing o( scrap paper in order to al'd the war eKort has grown In this community and the Boy Scout district organization has formed plans to care (or all paper saved in the homes and business establishments. Boy Scouts will collect scrap paper each Saturday. Those who have any kind o( scrap paper or cardboard are lasked to place the paper in boxes or tie it in bundles and place on the porches early Saturday. If there are those who need assistance in placing the paper where Scouts can pick it up they .are asked to telephone num ber 7 and someone will ho sent to scrap I assist. The need for scrap paper to re lieve an acute paper shortage is well known, and the Scouts are asking that all cooperate by sav ing waste paper and placing it where it can be collected. Scouts will work North Wllkes- boro, Wllkesboro and other com munities which have Boy Scout troops. Scout leaders point out that newspapers, old books, magazines —anything mode of paper—will be accepted in the salvage cam paign People In rural communities which do not have Boy Scout troops and who have any paper which they wish to put into the war effort are asked to leave the paper with Gordon Finley at Wllkeshwo Manufacturing com pany. SECOND RING ADDS 75,000 DOOMED MEN A new Red Army offensive an nounced last night in Moscow vir tually has doomed five Axis divi sions of 76,00X men at Nikopol in the Dnieper Bend, while a mid night Soviet hulletln said the rem nants of 100,000 crack German troops caught In the Smela pocket to the northwest were being ham mered steadily. 'Thus a year after the German disaster at Stalingnod the Rus sians had achieved within a week a potential bag of 175,0i00 Ger man troops in a carefully co-or dinated series of blows fore shadowing the liberation of all Southern Russia. ' , Forestry Essay Coatest Three .Airetted - ' In L^i^or Cases Two casea charging violatiaii of hitenial leyenue code Htpor^dans- es ivere reported yestsidayi by office of TTnited States HnrSlMt Edney Bidge, conxplaiitts having been fOed by the fdeohh\tn nnit Waltor Wabira ofeoantr,'»wi[l.h«o^ h«ffce J. W. Ontaj , coouniseioiKr, on * ufaeturfiig gnd pwneSBSg hotsd ^ oTfed^^g^ .-am- The following article was given out by Prank Hendren, Wilkes County Forester: The North Carolina Forestry Association offers three cash awards, a $20 first, a $10 second, and a $6 third prize for meritori ous essays in the field of fores try. The following regulations will apply: The paper must be the work of a bonafide vdiite high school stu dent and so certified by the prin cipal The paper must be not more than 2000 words in length pre sented on SlAzil inch paper, writ ten (preferably typewritten) on one side only. , A bibliography listing aU books and magazines or otim pqbliea- tions nsed as sooree material must be included at the end of the, ea- say. Bxceirptai and qnotations should be limited and mnst be in dicated. (The list of snggestod references below indicates the form in which the be made), : Papers must be in .the hands of the l^h Sehooi;;Oonmdt% of toe North Oto^>Hner?'JlEitoaegl]r og Science, Mumy . Obrir- gsan, N. C: State “ MawhlA^ " mbJeeb nmtter ’ mng draam from any b(aato.,.or 4 toe field of foieeS^ KtoM a science may be conddered htlnneg.OM Pagn g#«r|'^ Rfttioii Bookg Of Men Inducted Are To Be Turned In Rationing offleials point out that the law requires thatjration hooks of persons entwiag the smrvice must be turned In to the rationing hoards. ' A check is now being made of Many to Attend Lincoln Day Meet On Friday Night Wilkes Republicans To Be Well Represented At Dir- ner In Winston-Salem The big political event of the season for Wllkee Republicans will be the annual Lincoln Day dinner, which will be held on Fri day night, February 11, at the Robert E. Lee Hotel In Winston- Salem. N. B. Smlthey, chairman of the 'V^llkes Republican executive com mittee, said today that many Re publicans are planning to attend. Tickets may be obtained from Paul Osborne or Blaine Sparks. Republican leaders here report Uiat there Is much pre-campaign interest this year. Prlnoli»al address at the Lin coln Day d'nner will he by Sena tor James J. Davis, of Pennsyl- vaaia, for many years a leader in the Republican party in the na tion. rk-V- ' In Charlotte 16th Charlotte, Feb. 6.—-North Caro lina Republicans will meet In their biennial state convention here March 16. 'This date was selected by the state chairman, Sim A. Do- Lapp, of Lexington, after con sultation with other party leaders. Formal approval o( the selectiwn of Charlotte as the site is expect ed to be given by the party’s state executive committee at a meetin.g in Winston-Salem Friday. DeLapp said he hoped to be able to obtain Lt. Gov. Joe Han ley, of New York, as the keynote speaker for the convention ex pected to attract between 4,000 and 5,000 persons. BATTLE WANES AT KWAJALEIN; TAKE 3 OTHERS Capture of three more islands in the KwaJalein Atoll and virtual completion of American occupa tlon of this vital Japanese plane and sea base in the Central Pa cific was announced yesterday by Admiral Oheeter W. Nlmltz. Gugewe, BlgeJ and Eller Is lands have been captured after moderate resistance and in addi tion several undefended islands have been occupied, Nimitz’ com munique said. Eller Island also is known as Ebler Island. V. Mrs. D. £. Souther Funeral on Sunday Funeral was held Sunday, three p. m., at Shady Grove church for Mrs. Eliza Jane Go forth Souther, age 52, who died Thursday at her home in Sbmers township- Mrs. Souther Is survived by her hnahand, D. B. Souther, one daughter, Marie Goforth, and one son. Vestal Souther, who is In the ■army. Also surviving are three ^thers, N. P., C. , W., and S. J. Ckftorth, of Cycle. •V Cftlves Available' Wilkes 4-H olab members wisbr Ing'tQ buy psreibnd dairy ealsm nay get in touch with Snipes, eomty agent,. Cfitft* Prodwte oonpany ’tosipe, BAd hoMhlna fqr Mfqr; Th«. eo'tottr'hfMit M to atMon f einb SakM««ii$701,000 li FoiittWar Lon Canptigoli Wilkes Ntunarooe Pnrdiaaers Need ed To Put County Over $843,000 Quote With bond sales how totaling $701,000, Wilkes has $142,000 yet to go to meet the quota of $843,000 In the Fourth War Loan campaign, W. D. Haltaere, chairman, said today. Attention is called to the fact that the remainder of the quota must he raised through sale of bonds to individuals, because all the larger purchases are now In cluded iu the total. This means that thousands of Wilkes people must buy bones to back the attack and to keep Wilkes’ record in war financing up there at the top among all counties in the nation. The price of the smallest bond, $18.76, is not a large sum of money, but each bond purchased is that much added to the accu mulative total and the help of every person with the price of any denomination bond is need ed now. The organization set up tor rural areas U functioning well. School principals are district chairman and there is keen com petition among the districts. Ru ral people who find it more con venient may buy bonds from their district school principals or any authorized workers appointed by the principals. People are again reminded that they should buy bonds for three major reasons: to finance the war, td prevent Infiatlon and to pro vide future savings. There is no . fyrbfttaiyio.' If for nb reason, buy bonds for your own financial welfare and security. V- Casualty Total Set at 146,186 Washington.—The office of war information disclosed tonight th.it armed services casualties official ly reported since Pearl Harbor number 146,186, exclusive of the 7,700 American defenders of Ba taan and Corregidor starved, shot or tortured to death by their Jap anese captors. It reported 29,898 prisoners of war on record but added that the recent joint army-navy report on Japanese atrocities “makes the ac tual figures of those (prisoners of war) who have died substantially larger”. Army casualties as of January 7 total 109,434, OWI said, of which 17,480 have been killed, 41,533 wounded, 34,806 are missing and 25,615 are prisoners of war. Of the wounded 21,199 have returned to active duty or have been re leased from hospitals. Navy casualties total 36,762 to January 29, with 16,673 dead, 7,- 986 wounded, 8,811 missing and 4,283 prisoners of war. OWI said the army casualties include 12,500 Phillipine scouts of whom the Japs have officially re ported 469 killed and 747 wound ed. The remainder are assumed to be prisoners of war. In a report released January 25 OWI list total casualties of 142,- 289. ATTENTION — If any mem ber of a family enters urrlce the rotlan books, inckidlng gaa- oUne oonpong, for the person altering service must be Jurn- ed in to the rationing board. fniOAR—Book 4, stoap $0, good for five pounds, wUl ex pire MmtA $1. aAUKHJNSr-Ooupeu No. U la A hibk feed for tom g«l- lohs beeuse efteettra Nev. 0 sod wfil expire Fsbruary $. 8R01S—-Deopn'll is the rime sed eeffte rsUeg feeek fidid tor iie-isir et akeee he» »e teiiictpihui 6m Ne. 1 ete; ' tebeekteree he- 'Mp jNXlPi Ntnite .etotope, Book I, jiNtot toto, V* W good through Vto$%s>ry M. - drew' 4. • foods, O, SLwd J expire Feh- rusty $0. a '■