Jas. A. Holder
^Hed lo Aetioii In
Italy On July 5th
SgL Ben Colvard
Killed In Action
In France July 7
Sgt. BeE H. Colvard was killed
in action in France on July 7.
Official notice from the War
Department was received Friday
by his wife, the former Miss Ruth
Greer.
Sgt- Colvard was the son of the
late R H. Colvard, and Mrs. Col
vard, who lives near this city. Be
fore entering service he was a
member of the Traphill high school
faculty.
Wounded In France
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VT. JAMBS ARCHIE HODDKB
Pvt. James Archie Holder was
killed In aciton in Italy on July 5,
according to a War Department
message received by his wife, Mrs.
BWa Allgood Holder, of Stony
nv>rit.
vt. Holder entered the army
October 7, 1943, and was in
tlfelning at Camp Blanding, Fla.,
before going overseas March 19.
He served in the infantry.
Pvt. Holder is survived by his
wife and one daughter. Sandra
May, who make their home with
her mother, Mrs. Judd Goulds, at
Stony Fork; his parents, Mr, and
Mrs. Hill Holder, who live on
Lenoir route one near the Wilkes
Caldwell line, and the following
brothers and sisters: Tom Holder.
In Florida; Henry Holder. Warn-n
Holder and Roscoe Holder, Lenoir
route one; Ray Holder, in the ar
my in France; Mrs. Ebb Jones,
Lenoir; Mrs. Roraie Hamby and
Mrs. Carl Cloer, Patterson; Mrs.
Richard Dula and Mrs. Ruby
Pritchard, Happy Valley; Miss
Minnie Holder, Newport Nows.
Va.; and Mrs. Walter Scott, Le
noir.
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Two Groups Men ^
Forward^ Today i
For Service Test
INt. Robert F. Shoemaker
was wounde^i in I’rance on July
nth. according to a War Den
IMirtment teletfram received by
liLs wife, the former Miss Mayme
.\bslier. in a letter received by
iUT recently, i’vt. Shoemaker
-,tatd that he is now in a hos
pital in Kngland and is recover
ing rapidly. Pvt. .Sltoeiiurker
eiiieiH'^l service iu September,
and rt'eoived training at
( amp Uliecler, Ga„ and Fort
(ieorge G. .Meade, .Md., before
going oversej. s May 2, lS)-4-4. He
i^ a si>n of Mr. and 'Us. »'•
Slioemaker, former r
this cil.v now making tin. ».
711 Statesville.
Gets Purple Heart
staff Sergeant .Andrew C.
Parker, son of Mr. and JMtb.
Andrew C. Parker, of North
Wilkesboro, was killed In action
over Germany July 7, accord
ing to the most recent message
received by his parents. He was
first repot" M missing in action,
until the latest message was re
ceived Friday. He was a gunner
on a B-24 bomber operating out
of Italy and had been overseas
only five weeks. St. Sgt. Park
er entered the army Juno 5i5,
1043, and was In training at
.Sheppard Field and Harlingen
Texas and at langley Field, Va.,
before going overseas.
Musical Program
Rendered Friday
At Kiwanis Meet
Numbers by Quartet of Mem
bers Greatly Enjoyed By
Club Members Friday
Both Wilkes Boards Send
Groups of Men For Pre-
Induction Examination
N.
Both Selective Service boards in
Wilkes county today sent groups
of men lo the induction center for
examination prior to induction In
to the army and navy.
The list of men .sent by the two
boards follows:
BOARD M'^IBER 1
Edmund Williams
Thomas Jefferson Oakley
Uenrj- (lay Barker
J. C. Blankenship
Gilbert .Andrew .Adaais
James Earl BnmgiUTier
Reely UdoU Church
Arthur Gene Adams
.Max .Aldean Hamby
Clyde Norman Yates
Benjamin .Allen EUedge
James Elisha Cox
Hubert O. OientUio
J. P. Glass
Ancll Parfa? Robinson
(See Draft List—page elglit)
RATION NEWS
SHOEIS — Airplane sUmpa
No. 1 W»d No. 2 (Book 3) val
id indefinitely.
I gasoline—Coupons No. 10
f in A book good for three gal-
A Ions became effective May 9
X and wlU expire August 8.
■ SUGAR — Sugar stamps 30,
■ 3j( and 32, (book 4) good for
■ ''five pounds Indefinitely.
M PROCESSED FOODS—Blue
AS through F5 (Book 4) now
valid at 10 points each, for use
with tokens. Good indefinite
ly.
MEATS AND PATS — Red
AS through Z8 and A5 through
C5 (Book 4) now valid at 10
points each for us® with tokens.
SUGAR; Sugar stamp 40
good for five pounds oanning
sugar until rebruary 28, 1945.
Apply to local boards for sup-
plemental rations.
NEW regulations—After
August 2 no farm Implement
can be changed from steel to
rubber tires without appUsa-
tion being first approved by the
county committee of the War
administration. After
August a appUcafion for change
must ba made with the county
commKtaa of the WPA and ap-
^^rad before the rationing
board can act
on the appll-
Here are shown l*vt. Z. O.
Klggs and lii.s wife, tin- former
Mi.ss Mary K. Hart, of Halls
Mill.s, disugliter of .Mr. and Mrs.
David Hart. Pvt. Riggs was
wound*^! in action in France on
July (f and is now in a liospita)
in kngh.nd and is getting along
fine. >trs. Riggs has received
tlie purple heart award for her
iiuslHind.
North Wilkesboro Kiwanis club
on Friday enjoyed a program
rendered by club members.
J. W. Lcyshon was program
chairman and he presented a Ki-
wani.s quartet as follows: Rev.
.Sidney Crane, Paul CJragan, J. B,
Carter, and Rev. Sloane Guy, Jr.
This group used the program pe-
road in solo, quartet and group
singing. List of songs follow:
“Ring, King the Banjo”, “Stars of
the Summer Night”, “All
Through the Night”, “Nobody
Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen”.
Solo; “Hills of Home”, Rev.
Sloane Guy, Jr."; quartet: “Levee
Song”. “Keep The Home Fires
Burning'': solo; “Dearest Song",
Rev. .Sloane Guy, Jr.”; club—
“Duxie”, "Auld Lang Syne".
This was .something new in pro
grams and was very much enjoyed
by members and guests.
Gordon Finley announced that
' Kiwanian.s will collect scrap pa
per on Monday evening. Ed Gard
ner and Ed Caudill will furnish
trucks and helpers will be J. W.
Leyshon, R. E. Gibbs, J. B. Snipes,
Robert Gibbs and A. F. Kilby.
A nominating committee to
nominate officers for 1945 was ap-
! pointed as follows; P. W. Eshel-
man, J. B. Carter and D. J. Carter.
Guests Friday were as follows:
Miss. Mary Morehouse with H. H.
Morehouse, T. O. Minton with R.
M. Brame, Jr., James E. Rollins
with Edd Gardner.
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MARINES TAKE
GUAM TOWNS;
WAKE BOMBED
Wiping out strong Japanese de
fensive positions and occupying
two villages, marines on Guam ad
vanced more than two miles Satur
day. Admiral Chester W. Nimit^
announced yesterday, as army and
navy bombers hit Wake for the
first time since May 30.
Fighters of the Fourth Marine
Aircraft Wing are now operating
from the newly won airfield on
Orote Peinsula, from which they
are able to lend close support to
the ground operations on Guam,
Nlmitz announced.
U. 3. troops on the left flank of
the sector in which the marines
are operating, drove forward more
than two miles to establish the
Western anchor of our line just
below Haputo Point, approximate
ly five miles from the north
western tip of the island.
The right flank anchor remained
at about the same position as an
nounced Saturday—near Lumuna
Point.
Paul F. Evans, of Lexington, has
a Holstein-Friesian cow that pro
duced 14,607 pounds of milk in 306
days with twice a day milking.
Fvt. John W. .Minton has
been miasing In action In Ital.v
since July II, according to a
me.)sage received from the War
Department by his father, W. T.
Minton, of Congo.
DROHOBYCZ IS
SEIZED BY THE
RUSSIAN DRIVE
s
3?
Russian troops yesterday cap
tured the great Polish oil center
of Drohobycz, wiping out the next
to last major source of fuel for
Adolf Hitler’s war machine, while
other Soviet forces extended their
control of the Vistula River’s east
bank to more than 200 miles.
Drohobycz, a city of 32,600 per
sons in th© Carpathian foothills
44 miles southwest Of Przemysl,
was seized by troops of the Fourth
Ukranlan Army apparently under
a new commander, Col. Gen. I. Y.
Petrov, a hero of Novorossisk and
the Kuban bridgehead.
Its capture was announced in
an order of the day issued by
Marshal Josef Stalin, and it was
the first time that great Fourth
Ukrainian Army, last reported to
be commanded by Gen. Feodor I.
Tolbukhln, had been reported in
action in the Red Army’s trium
phant Summer offensive. Ten
Soviet armies now are battling
the Germans from Finland to the
border of Czechoslovakia.
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ONE OF GRAYSON BROTHERS MISSING
y - >«•
if .'
August Term Of
l^urt Under Way
Judge Wilson F. Warlick, of
Newton, is presiding over the
August term of Wilkes superior
court, which convened in Wilkes
boro today.
More than 100 criminal cases
are calendared for trial during the
term. Solicitor Avalon E. Hall, of
Yadklnville, is prosecuting the
docket.
The forenoon session of court
today was taken up with selec
tion of jurors and an instructive
charge to the grand jury by,; Judge
Warlick.' ‘
Home On Furlough
Pfe, Jay C, Grayson, left, one of three sons of J. C.
Grayson and Mrs. Bessie R. Grays»i in the army, has
been reported missing in action in France Since Jidy 7,
according to an official War Department message re
ceived here last week. Pfc. Grayson had been overseas
only a few weeks. His wife, the former Miss Aletta
Goforth, makes her home in this city. Pfc. T. R. (Buck)
Grayson, center, entered the army in April, 1943, and
has been in Australia for the past six months. His ■wife,
the former Miss Estelle Watson, makes her home in
North Wilkesboro, Pvt. Charles C. Grayson, who en
tered the army in May, 1943, was at an embarkation
point ready to go overseas a few days ago. He had been
in training at Camp Davis, His wife, the former Miss
Elizabeth Burchette, who had been with him at Camp
Davis, has returned to her home in Ohio. The Grayson
brothers have excellent service records.
AMERICANS
TAKE 3 TOWNS
IN ADVANCING
American armor and infantry,
having overrun the Brittany
Peninsnla, roared eastward toward
Paris yesterday In a full-force at
tack which captured the towns of
Mayenne, Laval and Chateau Gen
tler, 180 miles Inland from fhe
embattled peninsular port of
Brest.
The great new arc of the un
checked assault was bulging into
the Interior of France a full 50
mllee west of Rennes and within
140 miles of Paris at a speed
which, a spokesman said, bad
brought the Invasion virtually up
to its timetable after seven weeks
of hard sledding during vile
weather in Normandy.
The line of the American ad
vance ran from Barentan through
Wayenne and towns along and
across the Mayenne River to
within 25 miles of Angers, which
Is 176 miles up the Loire River.
Swift capture of the towns was
being consolidated by Infantry
which sped up in trucks as fast as
the armored spearheads shot for
ward.
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Sg;t. Smoak’s Plane
Crashed June 14th
After Bomber Raid
The following letter from Major
General N. F. Twining, of the 15th
air force in Italy, was received re
cently by Mr. and Mrs. N. 0.
Smoak, of Wilkesboro:
“The ne3ca-tliaI_your Aon, Tech-:,
nical Sergeant Sam Smoak,
14102828, is missing in action must
j .have caused you much grief, and I
wish it were possible for me to
give you some consolation. I am
afraid, however, that the informa
tion I can give you will do little
to relieve your anxiety over his
safety.
“Sam was the upper turret gun-
I ner on one of out Flying Fortre^s-
!es, which, on June 14, 1944, par-
jticipateJ in a raid on the Hungar-
j ian city of Budapest. On the re-
|turn from the target, this ship,
I which had apparently been damag-
led during attack, suddenly went
out of control, crashed into an
Carload Sheep Here
J. W. Thompson, widely known
sheep rancher in Wyoming, today
brought 226 purebred sheep to
Wilkes for sale to Wilkes farmers.
Those interested are asked to con
tact the county agent’s office as
early as possible.
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Scouts Not to Meet
meetings this week, will not re
sume meetings until further no
tice, because of the polio epidemic,
it was announced today.
Missing In France
Republicans To
Have a Meeting
Courthouse 9th
Announcement Made of Im
portant County-Wide Meet
ing of Republicans Here
Boy Scout troop number 36, ^
whtehr Vfa6'9elieWed'’t* 'WTtkha Repulillcans will he held at
N. B. Smithey, chairman of the
Wilkes county Republican execu
tive committee, has announced
that an Important meeting of
1 other plane. Both went down, and ]
I it is very difficult to estimate the
chances of the crews to reach the
ground safely. Such accidents are
I tragic, but they are sometimes un-
i avoidable in the dangerous opera-
I tions we are obliged to undertake-
Pvt. Minton Missing
Since July Eleventh
Pvt. Hansford T. Church,
who has completed training at
Camp Welters, Texas, is spend
ing ten days furioagh with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Finley
Church, of Millers Creek. At
the end of his furlough Pvt.
Church will report to Fort
George G. Meade. His wife, the
former Miss Cora Pruitt, who
had been with him In Texas for
the past three months, will
make her home with her par
ents, Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Pruitt,
in this (dty.
“Your son was fully aware of
the hazards involved in the job of
a gunner on a B-17, but he felt
that this was the place where he
could best serve his country. For
the faithful performance of his du
ties and his courage in ^tion, he
has been awarded the Air Medal.
I realize how anxious you are to
have further word of his fate, and
I assure you that if such news is
forthcoming it will be sent on to
you at once”.
Russia paid 205 contestants the
sum of $300,000 for their sugges
tions for the ne-w National An
them.
the courthouse in Wilkesboro on
Wednesday evening, eight o’clock.
Fate Beal, of Charlotte, state
Republican secretary, will be
present for the meeting, which
will be for the purpose of discus
sion of campaign plans. Particu
lar attention will be given to in-
j structlons in the use of the absen-
.tee ballot.
Local Republican leaders urge a
large attendance at the meeting,
and ask that party leaders in all
townships be present. Ladles are
I especially urged to attend the
meeting.
Children Must
Stay Off Streets
I’fc. steward L. Bishop lias
been reported mlsrfng In FhAnce
since July 15, according to a
War Department inessagr- re
ceived by his brother, BoUen
Bishop, of Wilkesboro route one-
Pfc. Bishop entered the army
September 14, 1®42, and has
been overseas since May of this
year.
FOUR CxAMBILL BROTHERS ARE SERVING IN THE ARMY AND THE NAVY
Mayor R. T. McNiel today call
ed attention to the fact that the
ban on children being in public
has not been lifted and urged
parents to continue ti keep them
at home.
Mayor McNiel said that it had
been brought to his attention that
several children have been observ
ed on the streets and in stores
here and asked more effective co
operation in the precaution to pre
vent further spread of infantile
paralysis, dreaded disease which
has afflicted 35 in Wilkes since
June 1.
No new cases have been report
ed in Wilkes since Wednesday of
last week and health authorities
are hopeful that another outbreak
will not occur.
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AIR AND NAVAL
ATTACK MADE
ON BONIN ISLNDS
PFC. IVAN C. GA3IBIIiL
LESTER GAMBILL
T5 OUFTON J. GAMRUJU PJFO. B. TALMADGE GAMBILL
Four sons of Mr. and Mrs. N.
N. GanxMll, of Springfield, ape
in service.
Pfc. Ivan C. GamblU, who wa«
inducted In November, 1042, Is
with an engineer^ batatllon tn
England. He received training
at Fort Beaming, Ga. ffia wife,
the former Mlw Minnie RIMa,
and their dangbter, Theda, are
making their' home with Pfc.
UamMU’s parenta.
Beaman Pint OUaa Lester
GanAQl'te now on sea doty. Hie
entered service, in 'Mareh this
year and wna in tnUnlng at
BafiiMdte, Md., and GtaU^oct,
Bla wttb, IlM fonier now
Rath Spicer, mid two sons,
ShertW and Roger, live in North
WUfcedhoro.
TschnleiMi. Fifth Grade CUf-
ton J. GamMn haa the iongeat
servlee reooed of the foor. H«
entaied aervloe in 104S; wna in
tratn^ la .lamWapa and for
the iU*>t Id ilMBiha faaa been In
North Africa.
Pfc. B. Talnadge QaartjUl.
who entered the army In May,
1048, is aorilng In tlm infantry
somewhere in fite PMllle tl>ea>
in,* He received tmteini; in
iwissonri, LonMana ant
tacky before going oveiwaa.
United States planes and war
ships, in one of the greatest air-
naval triumphs of the Pacific war,
sank or damaged more than 38
Japanese vessels, including eight
■warships, during a thundering
two-day assault on the Bonin and
Volcano Islands that carried the
American attackers within 530
miles of the Japanese mainland. It
was announced yesterday.
In addition, the Americans sent
nine bargee to the bottom and
sank, or damaged an nnspecitied
number of other craft, making the
total number of ships bagged sec
ond only to the record 48 chalked
up in a task force attack on Polsn
and other islands In March of this'
year.-
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PVt. DkBCjr Horn 5
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Pvt In G. Dancy, of the MariM : '
Corps, at Chmr P^t, span! ,y.
week-end wKli his wife and CubI^ ~ '-y
at MUlen Creak. '