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American troopa in an eight-
mile adrance hare captured Fondl,
eracklng the Germans’ third de-
fwae line In Western Italy, and
French forces hare blocked the
Poatecorro-Plco Road In parallel
UoWB that split the enemy front
into three crumbling segments, it
iraa disclosed last night.
Fondl fell late Saturday to an
American armored column which
prised and overrunning the
man defenders, thus reached a
nt only 30 miles from the An-
beachhead and iiS miles from
the heart of Rome.
A dispatch from Anilo said that
vanguards of the Southern Allied
Army were only 20 miles air line
from the beachhead but according
to Information hero Fondl was the
Wolnt of nearest approach.
A second American column
swept up the sandy Tyrrhenian
coast to wlthlng eight miles of
burning Terraclna, meeting only
scattered resistance from German
rear guards who were ^)emg har
ried by long range artillery and
clouds of planes.
YANKS SINK
BOATLOADS
OF JAPANESE
American airmen have* sunk
boatloads of Japanese fleeing the
encircletl North Burma, a strong
hold of Myltkyian, already one-
third in Allied hands after bloody
street fighting, and Lieut. Gen.
Joseph W. Stilwell’s troops have
blocked the main enemy forces at
Kamaing to the west, an Allied
commuBique anuouaoed yeeter-
day.
With Gen. Stilwell’s Northern
Burma campaign obviously ap
proaching a climax—the capture
of Myltkylna would plant a strong
peg on the path to China and give
his forces their first big strategic
victory on the offensive—Allied
headquarters declared Japanese
battle casualties in all sectors had
exceeded 25.000. Total enemy
forces in Burma have been esti
mated at well over 100,000.
Aviation Student
MANY PLANES
RAKE ENEMY
STRONBHOLDS
Aviation Student Forrest E.
Tugman was recently transfer-
ed from Keesler Field, Miss., to
the University of * Alabama to
receive his college training for
aviation cadet. JbUs wife, the
former Miss Helen Kelly, form
erly of this city, has Joined him
there. A.S. Tngman is tho
son of Mr. and Mrs. E. 8. Tag-
man of North Wllkesboro route
one, whose other son, Cpl. John
Tngman, is also in the air corps
and is now serving in Italy. Be
fore enlisting Forrest was em
ployed in the Norfolk navy yard
as a machinist.
Three thousand Allied planes,
mostly fighters, converted West
ern Europe into a gigantic shoot-
I ing-gallery Sunday, sweeping
' across Germany, Prance and the
Low Countries in the most colos
sal ground-strafing onslought of
tho war with vast success.
Some bombs were dropped by
fighter-bombers and a medium-
I sized force of heavy bombers, but
machine guns and cannon were
'the principal weapons.
' Fifty-seven British and Ameri
can planes failed to return,
j American and British airplanes
of every tyiw participated In the
sudden, savage attack, dealing gi
gantic blows to the German mili
tary transport system by shooting
up more than 300 locomotives,
scores of troop carriers and trains,
hundreds of canal locks and
barges and scores of grounded
enemy planes.
Twenty German fighters were
destroyed In air combat, while 35
American fighters failed to return.
This was a record fighter loss for
one day’s o’perations, the previous
high having been 30 on a much
smaller sweep April 15. 'Twenty-
seven of the American planes were
lost In the tremendous sweep
across Germany beyond Berlin.
SUBSCRIPTION AND ADVERTISING
RATES TO BE INCREASED JDNE1
Increased Costs of Publica
tion Makes Increase In
Rates Imperative
W. M. U. Will Have
Meet at Oakwoods
Mrs. George P. Johnson, oC
Wllkesboro, assoclational superin
tendent of the W. M. U. of the
Brushy Mountain Baptist Asso
ciation has Issued the following
call for this year’s session of the
W. M. U. which will be held Fri
day, May 26th, at OakWoods Bap
tist church:
‘"The annual Brushy Mountain
W. M. U. Assoclational meeting
will convene at Oakwoods Baptist
church Friday, May 26. The meet
ing will begin at 10:00 o’clock a.
m. It will be an all-day session.
Featured speakers will be Mrs. O.
R. Mangum, Lenoir; Miss Olive
Lawton, missionary to China, and
Miss Lucy Thompson, our new As
soclational missionary.
“We trust we will have a good
representation from all the
churches".
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There are about 1,500 kinds of
birds In North America, north of
Mexico.
BobevC Smoot, sernow
flar~. OBtSFBd tli« navy
^ XO, recolreij his boot
r at VaiabrlOgo, Md., aad
A am Mr *a the Pad-
la the aiMs oi Miw Do«a
UK
Sub6»crtptlOn and advertising
rates for The Jonmal-Patrlot
wm fnetease June I'Sne tO’fiV-
creased cost of publishing a
newspaper.
In the face of many rising
costs, tho old rates were nsel
as long as possible.
.After May SI the subscrip
tion rate in Wllkcs and counties
adjoining Wilkes will bo tw'o
dollars per year. For clvlUan-s
outside of Wilkes and adjoining
counties the rate will be fS.OO
per year. The subscription rate
to men in service wlU remain at
two dollars pew year, regardless
of their location.
The local advertising rate will
increase from 25 to 80 cents per
column inch.
Since the announcement
earUer this month that rates
wonid be increased June 1 there
has been no word of crltlclsni
from any source and The Jour-
nal-Fatiiot publishers appre
ciate the fact that the public
understands the utter necessity
of increasing rates to meet high
er costs of publication.
New subscriptions will be ac
cepted through May 81 at tho
present rates of $iJSO per year
in North Carolina and $2.00 out
side of the sitate. Present sub
scribers may add one year to
their present subscriptions at
present rates before Juno 1, af
ter which the new rates will bo
In fc«ce for new and renewal
subscriptions.
Following strictly a paid-in-
advance policy, all subscriptions
not renewed promptly are re
moved from the maiifag list. U
your label reads 6-44, which
means Jnne 1, 1944, the sub
scription will be stopped Jnne
1 unless renewed before that
date. In order that there be no
SHOES — Airplane stamps
No. 1 and No. 2 (Book 8) val
id indefinitely.
GASOLINE—Coupons No. 10
In A book good for three gal
lons became effective May 9
and will expire Anguat 8.
SUGAR—Sugar stamps No.
30 and No. 31 (book 4) good
for five pounds indefinitely.
CANNING SUGAR — Sugar
stamp No. 40 good for five
pounds of oanning sugar until
February 88, 1845.
PROCESSED FOODS—^Blue
A8 through Q8 (book 4) now
valid at 10 points each, for use
with tokens. Good Indefinite
ly-
MEATS AND FATS—^Red A8
through T8 (book 4) now val
id at 10 points each, for use
with tokens. Good Indeftnite-
Stampe U8, T8 and W8 become
valid June 4.
Intermption, we nige that sub
scribers notice the dates on their
address labels and renew befMe
the first of the month stated on
the laJbeL
_V_
Parties Now To
Vote In Primary
Chairman of Election Board
Cites Law In Answer To
Many Recent Inquires
The time for changing party
affiliation In order to vote in the
primary May 27 ended with the
close of the registration period on
Saturday, May 13.
James M. Anderson, chairman
of the Wilkes board of elections,
today said that In answer to re
cent inquires he was citing the in
structions to registrars as given
out by the state board of elec
tions. 'The Instructions says: "Any
voter who desires to change his
party affiliation for a primary,
from the registration book on
which he is registered, to that of
another party, may do so during
the registration period only . . . ”
The Instructions also point out
that party affiliation cannot be
changed between any first and
second primary.
Polls will open Saturday at
6:30 a. m. and close at 6:30 p. m.,
war time. Official canvass of the
primary returns by the county
board of elections will be Tues
day, May 30, 11 a. m„ at the
courthouse.
Now In England
Corporal Edward M. Bumgar
ner, who Is serving in a gaso
line supply CO., Is now In Eng
land, according to a letter re
ceived by his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. F. Bumgarner, of Halls
Mills. He writes that be likes
England fine and it Is a beauti
ful country. He entered the
army May 18, 1942.
Many Defendants
In Federal Court
Given Pen Terms
Court In Wllkesboro Enters
Second Week of Work On
Large Docket Of Cases
Gets Promotion
T-5 Maston J. Walsh, who
was rooeatly promoted to bis
present rank from private first
class, has returned to Camp
Gordon Johnston, Florida,
where he is In training, after
spending his furlough near
Moravian Fails with his wife
aad SOBS, Ronald and O. O. T-5
Walsh, who was Inducted Into
the array Oeoenber $9,
eeiehrated his 86th bitthday on
Apra 24th.
May term of federal court in
Wllkesboro today began the sec
ond week with several Jury cases
yet to be tried.
The term opened on Monday of
last week and, many cases wore
the week. Prsc-
UOTlly all of the cases Involved
violations of the liquor tax laws.
Judge Johnson J. Fayes is pre
siding over the term,
Pollowlng are listed the cases
which were disposed of Thursday,
Friday, Saturday and today.
George Hendrix, $100 fine, year
and a day In Chillfcothe.
Edgar Glen Edsel, $100 fine,
year and a day in Petersburg;
Raymond Arthur Estep, $100 fine
and a year and a day in Chllll-
cothe; Lester Adams Davis, $100
fine, two years in Chlllicothe;
Mack McKinley Stlkeleather, $100
fine, two years in Petersburg.
Lindsay Woodle, probation two
years.
Charles Tidllne, $100 fine, year
and a day in Petersburg.
Will Walker, $100 fine, year
and a day in Petersburg; James
Lytle Mastin, $250 fine and pro
bation.
Gurney Simpson, probation, two
years.
Theodore Roosevelt Billings,
temporary probation.
Henry Doughton Eller, $100
fine, year and a day In Petersburg,
suspended until November.
Romulus Carlton and Tom
Land, probation two years.
Bertie Columbus Foster, proba
tion two years.
Ivan Miles, $100 fine, year and
a day In Petersburg.
Grant Miles, $100 fine, year and
a day In Petersburg.
Eugene Reavls, two years in
Petersburg.
Ina McCarter, year and a day
In Alderson, W. Va.
S. V. Tomlinson, failure to keep
records on sale of chop, fine of
$500.
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Final Program
Commencement
Thursday Night
Baccalaureate Sermon De-
liwered By Rev. Eugene
Eller Sunday Night
North Wllkesboro schools will
end pother successful term with
the final high school commence
ment program on Thursday night.
May 25, eight o’clock, In the
school andltorlum, at which di
plomas will be presented to a large
class of graduates. ^
The commencement season got
nuder way Friday night with the
annual concert by the high school
hand tinder direction of Miss Bet
ty Story. A most excellent pro
gram, rendered In a manner which
reflected splendid training, was
presented before an appreciative
audience.
On Sunday night Rev. Eugene
Ktpr, pastor of Crawford Aveniqu
XSae OoBUBMiassiwt Page $)
Mosalk* BnnMtto Futelly In*
jiired When Hit BfCw;
Hobert McLeen Held
iHias Moselle Bnmett, age 10,
w;a8 klUed Saturday evenings when
she waa struck by a car driven by
Hobert D. McLean, of -Criidcet, one
mile west of this city on highway
421.
Miss Burnette was walking
along the highway about eight
o’clock when the accident oeenr-
red. She died two hours later In
the Wilkes hospital.
State Highway Patrolman La
mar Ratcliff, who with Deputy
Sheriff J. C. Grayson made an In-
veetigation of the accident, placed
McLean under arrest and charged
him with manslaughter.
The accident victim was walk
ing with Alma Anderson toward
this ■ city and they were on the
right side of the road. The Ander
son girl told the patrolman that
they wefe walking on the shoulder
of the road when they heard a car
coming across the hill from be
hind, that she turned and saw the
car McLean was driving coming
at a high rate of speed and swerv
ing across the pavement. She said
she took the Burnette girl by the
hand and ran down the hill and to
the right of the pavement but that
the Burnette girl was hit. Her
body was badly broken.
Miss Burnette was a daughter
of W. E. and Bessie Buncombe
Burnette, who live near the scene
of the accident, in addition to
her parents she Is survived by six
sisters and three brothers.
Funeral service was held this
afternoon, two o’clock, at Gordon
Baptist church with Rev. J. E.
Hayes in charge of the service.
V
NoW.ht Tauaf
Mrs. Blackburn Is
Claimed By Death
Mi«. £. M. Blackburn Died
' Sunday Moraing; Funeral
On Tuesday Afternoon
Funeral service will be held
Tuesday, 3:30 p. m., at the First
Baptist church for Mrs. Myrtle
Edwards Blackburn, wife of E.
M. Blackburn, for many years a
prominent citizen and business
leader here.
Mrs. Blackburn died at her
home in this city at 4:30 a. m.,
Sunday. She had been In ill
health for several months.
She was born and reared in
Wilkes, a daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Edwards. For
many years she had taken an ac
tive Interest in church and com
munity life with her husband. She
was a member of the First Bap
tist church here.
Surviving Mrs. Blackburn are
her husband, two sons, Jeter
Blackburn, of Brunswick, Ga., Lt.
John Kermlt Blackburn, with U.
S. army forces In England, and
one daughter. Miss Ruby Black
burn, who Is a member of the
North Wllkesboro school faculty.
Also surviving is one brother, W.
M. Edwards, who lives In Davie
county.
The pastor, Dr. John W. Kinche-
loe, Jr., will be assisted In the
funeral service by Rev. Eugene
Olive, of Wake Forest, a former
pastor. Burial will be In the Bap
tist cemetery.
BUY MORE WAR BONDS
Twice Wounded
staff'S6rge«n4 Arile Grlftbi,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Noel H.
Flfh, o4 Wattufaea, N. T., and
gnmdsok of Mr. and Mn. R. F.
Obnrrii,. of Pnrioar, baa been
twice vtomded In actioB in atr
combatdn Italy «ad la,now in.a
boapttal in Italy., On Febrnaiy
14tli bo waa wooBMd wtafle da
hla l«li mMon Aad vraa aaraM-
ed ttio air asedal aad
Pvt. Luther M. Moniaoa, who
waa stationed at Fort Jackson,
8. O., since entering tbe army in
January, 1944, has been trans
ferred to Uamp Wolters, Texas,
where he Is to receive hJs basic
traidlng. Pvt. Morrison's wife,
the former Miss Agnes Brewer,
and bis six children, one girl
and five boys, make their home
In Wllkesboro. He Is tbe son
of Mrs. A. M. Morrison, who
makes her home In Winston-Sa
lem. Pvt. Morrison tells all his
frionils ‘hello’.
Deal Is Elected
President North
Wllkesboro Lions
Officers Elected Thursday
Eveniii4'; - Ikr. Rustin.De-
Ihrers Inspiring Talk
Vernon Deal, secretary of the
Northwestern Bank and who for
several years has been active In
civic life in North Wllkesboro, was
elected president of the North
Wllkesboro Lions Club Thursday
evening.
Mr. Deal, with the other officers
elected Thursday evening, will
take office at the first meeting in
July. He will succeed James M.
Anderson, under whose leadership
the club has made much progress
during the past year.
The meeting was held on Thurs
day Instead of Friday evening in
order that the club might have
opportunity to hear Dr. John W.
Rustin, of Washington, D. C., who
was here preaching in the First
Methodist church revival. The pro
gram was In charge of B. B.
Broome and H. H. Cobb. Rev. A.
C. Waggoner presented the speak
er.
Dr. Rustin delivered a very In
spiring message, which was well
fecelved by the club.
, With Mr. Deal as president
other officers of the club for the
coming year were elected as fol
lows: Dr. J. S. Deans, Oliver
Absher and Bill Marlow, first,
second and third vice presidents;
Attorney J. Allle Hayes, Lion
tamer; Jack Gibson, tall twister;
Paul Oashlon, secretary-treasurer;
Boyd Stout and Bill Jester, direc
tors. Jack Swofford and Bryan
Collins are directors whose terms
will expire next year.
Lifli^gSefs
3 Fins Here
Friday Evenhif
Simultaneotu Fire* At Oak
Pumitare Co., C. G. Day
Home, Moore’s Market «
'Three fires, presumably set by
lightning during a severe electric
storm, happened at the same time
here Friday evening.
The fires were at Oak Furni
ture company, .at the home of C.
O. Day, and Moore’s market. Ex
tensive damage was done to the
finishing plant of the furniture
plant and to Mr. Day's home.
The alarm was turned in first
from Oak Furniture company,
where flames were discovered in
the flniriilng room near the top of
the building. The large fire truck
was rushed to the plant and the
flames were soon under control.
Meanwhile, the home of C. G.
Day, chief of the fire department,
was burning, on D street. Mr. Day
and family were eating supper
when the fire waa seen near the
roof of Mr. Day’s home by L.
Vyne, who lives nearby. Mr.
Vyne found the phone dead and
got into his car and drove to the
fire department, only to find that
the fire truck and firemen were
away fighting the fire at Oak Fur
niture company.
By the time firemen and equip
ment could reach Mr. Day’s home
the upper floor of the beautiful
brick residence was in flames and
considerable difficulty was ex
perienced In extinguishing the
fire. Much of the furniture was
removed from the downstairs por
tion of the home.
The third fire, in which there
was little damage, was at
Moore’s Market, where lightning
had run in and set fire to an elec
tric motor. B. F. Bentley, mana
ger of the establishment and who
is a member of the fire depart
ment, extinguished the blaze with
a fire extinguisher, ran to the Oak
Furniture company to help put
out the fire there and then pro
ceeded to the home of Mr. Itey to
help get the fire there under con
trol.
Damage to the Oak Furniture
company plant, although confined
mainly to the finishing depart
ment, was estimated to be several
thousand dollars. Mr. Day’s home
was badly damaged and tbe top
floor and roof were practically
demolished. The loss was par
tially covered by Insurance.
The storm was the most severe
of the season. Power lines in sev
eral parts of the community were
temporarily knocked out.
Fire at noon Sunday destroyed
the large barn on the premises
near the home of Ftank Blair on
Main Street In this city.
When first discovered the
flames had made much headway
in the large, two-etory frame
structure and the fire spread
rapidly. A greater part of the
rapidly burning structure was de
stroyed before the fire could be
extinguished.
Origin of the fire was unknown.
The livestock, which included
some splendid riding horses and
cows, was removed from the build
ing but two pickup trucks and a
considerable quantity of feed
Ladies night will be at the first i ^01*0 destroyed. .
meeting in June.
Diggest Poppy
Sale Predicted
On May 27tli
Now In Alabama
The biggest poppy sale in the
history of the American Legion
Auxiliary Is predicted by Miss
Toby Turner, president of the lo
cal unit, who said yesterday she
would not be surprised If more
than double the usual number
were sold.
Poppy Day will he May 27.
As few people know what the
arrangements are for , making
tbeee Memorial Day flowers. Miss
Turner explained that the ma
terials are famished free to the
veterans by the American Legion
Auxiliary. Volunteer workers
teach the disabled men to make;
the poppies. 'The entire poppy
program, from the supplying of
the poppy materials, to tbe dls-
trtlnitioh of tbe finished flowers
to the American pnhlle. Is under
the menafsment of the’Aiadliary.
“The veterans and thrir ‘de-
pwdei^ are tlie osef' vlio bene
fit iroln onr V0VS7 Mte.” abe said,
^t only from the mon«)r.;that re-
dee Ptofpy Der-ijsgr $)
Pvt. WiUlam -C2uirdi« srtwf
had been stationed at Oamp
Stewaet, V*., U non in AlsIwiiMt.
Pvt. Cbrnrch Is m atm of Ifr. and
Mm. Udeii CkBch, of Uenolv
route one, aald Is a (nalm of
BIr. wad Mm R. F. tiharofci, id
Pvieer, Md Mr. Md Mm-d, W.
CMinh, ot WMah.
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