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yOL. XXXIX, No. 31 PubiUhed Mondayi md ThJ^yt. NORTH WILKESBOEO, N. C., MONDAY, AUGUST 14,1944 Watch Your UbcJ—Kggp Yobr Stibac^Mfen P>M la A4W
red Man On
Tnal On Capital
Charge of Rape
J. C. Sale Being Tried For
Life for Criminal Assault
On Minnie Lore
Wilkes superior court today be
gan trial of J. C. Sale, 18-year-
old colored man charged with rape
of Miss Minnie Love In the Roar
ing River route two community
last month.
The state is asking the death
penalty for the alleged criminal
assault, which is said to have tak
en place near the home of Miss
Love. A special ■^enlre of 50 men
reported in cour^oday, from
which a jury was being chosen for
the case. Solicitor Avalon B. Hall
is being aided in the prosecution
‘Lttomeys J. H. Whicker and J.
Icker, Jr. Attorneys Eugene
^ette, of this city, and J. E.
jhouser, of Boone, are the de-
idant's counsel.
Court began the second week
of the two-weeks’ term today. On
Thursday and Friday of last week
J;'dgments were rendered in the
cases:
arlie Ferguson versus Gena
^uson, divorce granted,
llnorah Phillips v'-sus Leroy
Phillips, divorce granted.
James Porter, assault, IS
months on roads suspended on
payment of ?100 to Major Hawk
ins and for good behavior.
Dave Wilcox, assault with dead
ly weapon with intent to kill, not
guilty.
Donald Shelton Harris and Ger
ald .\iider Watkin.s. housebreak
ing and larceny, IS months for
Harris and 12 mouths for
Watkins.
A true bill charging criminal I
assault oa Lura Absher was re
turned against Freeman Gams.
The bill char.ged the assault took
place on July 2.
On Philippine Raid
Lieutenant Theodore Huff
man, son of Jfr. and Mrs.
Everett Huffman, of the Con
go community, was a co-pilot on
one of the army bombers which
raided the Philippine islands for
the first time last week. Tlie
••Issivclated Press dispatch of (he
rail quoted Lt. Huffman rela
tive to the success of the bomb
ing of Jap airports on the
Philippines and tlie lack of air
opposition encountered.
Seriously Injured
Pvt. Claude Wallace
Is German Prisoner
I Mrs. J. C. Wallace has received
a telegram from the War Depart
ment that her son. Pvt. Claude
Wallace, who was reported missing
^in France June 12, is a German
war prisoner. Pvt. Wallace entered
the army February. 1!>43, was as
signed to the infantry at Camp
Wolters, Texas, and was sent over
seas July, 1943.
Pfo. Janies Howard IjOWC, son
of Mr. and Mrs. M. K. T,owc,
tomiCT residents of Pores Kiioli
now making their home at Lan
dis, was .seriously iii.iured re
cently in .Ve-w Guinea, aceonl-
ing to news reis'iveil I'y lela-
tives.
MASTER SERGEANT GEO. SMOAK
GAINING INVENTOR’S REPUTATION
An Air Service Command De
pot, England—Master Sgt. George
H. Smoak, son of Mr. and .Mrs. N.
O. Smoak, Wilkeslioro. X. C., now-
working in the parachute and tex
tile repair shop at an .Air Service
Command depot in England, re
cently found a new use tor rub
ber cement and electrician’s tape
that saves sending rubber flying
boots all the way back to Ameriye
to be fitted with new tippers.
Besides taking up valuable car
go space, the badly needed boots
were weeks euroute and produced
a bottle-neck in the shop out-put.
Sergeant Smoak, dissatisfied with
this system, began studying the
possibilities of making these re
pairs right in his own shop.
Since the boots were rubber,
sewing in a new zipper was im
possible. The factory installed
them, by using a vulcanizing pro
cess, but there was no such equip
ment at the depot.
The answer to Sgt. Smoak’s
problem was rubber cement. By
applying several coats at intervals
and allowing them to dry slightly
before putting on the zipper, he
discovered that it would hold just
as strongly as a factory job.
•After cutting out the old zipper.
S.gt. Smoak stick.s tlie new zipper
to the outside of the original flap,
and then, with strips of niblier
electrician’s tape, makes a new
flap which is affixed with rubber
cement.
This operation w-as slow at first,
but by settin.g up a production
line .sy.stcm, reiiaired boots began
rolling through the shop at a rate
that soon whittled down the big
surplus of damaged boots and
sped them to our airmen now
fighting over France.
2 New Members
ODWUketCoHiity
Eleetioii Beard
C. J. Jones, M. B. McNeill
and J. C. Grayson Now
Compose The Board
teen
Two new members have
appointed on the Wilkes county
board of elections.
C. J. Jones, local magistrate,
was appointed to succeed James
M. Anderson, chairman of the
board who recently resigned.
M. B. McNeill, local automo
bile dealer, was named on the
board to succeed C. E. Jenkins,
Jr., who was appointed sometime
ago but who declined to serve.
Mr. Jenkins had been named to
succeed W. O. Absher, who re
signed.
Jones and McNeill are the Dem
ocratic members of the board. J.
C. Grayson remains as the Repub
lican member.
It was announced today that the
office of the board of elections
will be over North Wilkesboro
Hardware company in the Moose
Hall opposite the North Wilkes
boro postoffice on C street.
The board organized today
electing Jones chairman and Me
Neill secretary.
It is expected that the board of
elections after organizing will
have the ballots printed for the
fall election. Early printing this
year is essential in order that ab
sentee ballots may be mailed to
men in the armed forces and who
are serving in many parts of the
by
world.
Orchard Tour Is
Planned Aug. 17
In The Brushies
The Brushy Mountain Fruit
Growers have arranged an orchard
tour on Thursday. August 17, in
stead of their usual summer pic
nic which has been called oft on
account of the infantile paralysis
,^epidemlc.
The orchard tour, for adi^ts
only, will start from the Apple
Research Laboratory at 9:30 a.
m. and visit the orchards of R. C.
Adams, J. M. Crawford and Clar
ence Hendren then will return to
the Moravian Falls community
house where a lunch will be serv
ed by the homo demonstration
club followed by a program of
speakers on subjects of interest to
growers.
Dr. J. K. Magness, horticul
turist, in charge division of fruit
and vegetable crops and diseases,
U. S. Department of Agriculture
will be the principal speaker and
will use. as his speech “Recent Ad
vances in Fruit Production Prac
tices”. Dr. Otto Veprhoff, in
charge of the peach investigation
in the Sandhills, Dr. M. E. Gard
ner and Mr. H. R. Nlswonger will
also be there.
In the afternoon the tour will
continue to the orchard of I. J.
Broyhill, at Boomer.
All fruit growers are cordially
Invited.
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Court Honor Meet
Here Is Postponed
August meeting of the Boy
Scout court of honor has been
postponed until the third Thurs
day In September because of the
polio epidemic.
Duty In Navy
Garden-fresh carrots have a
high vitamin content. Under
average storage and when cooked
too long, they lose mo.'t of the
vitamin C.
flmmT First Class B. O.
jmnttt, wlio Totunteered for
lie n»Ty ta’Jaly, IMS, Is now
IB aettre
loik. Cbnrch Is s son
ft Mr. —f tfw- IfnHon CIrarcb,
irMbdtf.
SHOES — Airplane stamps
No. 1 and No. 2 (Book 3) val
id Indefinitely.
GASOLINE—Coupons No. 11
In A book good for three gal
lons became effective Aug. 9
and will expire November 8.
SUGAR — Sugar stamps 30.
31, and 32, (book 4) good for
five pounds Indefinitely.
PROCESSED FOODS—Blue
AS through F5 (Book 4) now
valid at 10 points each, for use
with tokens. Good Indefinite
ly.
MEATS AND FATS — Red
A8 through Z8 and A6 through
C5 (Book 4) now valid at 10
points each for use with tokens.
SUGAR: Sugar stamp 40
good for five pounds canning
sugar until February 28, 1945.
Apply to local boards for sup
plemental rations.
Reunion of Walsh-
McGee Postponed
Annual reunion of the Walsh-
McGee families has been post
poned from the usual date until
Sunday, October 1. The reunion
will be held at Beaver Creek Bap
tist church.
Goes Overseas
Pfc. .Albert B. (Bevo) Bay-
mer, who reioemtly left Camp
Davis, has been assigned an
overseas address. Pfc, Raymer
entered service May 19, 1948,
and has been in training' at
Camp Hnlen, Tex s, damp
Campbell, Ky., and Gamp Davis,
N. C,, in antiaircraft units. He
Is a son of Mr. and BIrst W. B.
Raymer, of this dty, and his
wife is the fonner MLm Blinnle
Greer.
Gets His Wings
Cpl. Rex Handy entered serv
ice in May, 1048, at Port Jack-
son, S. C. From there he went
to Koesler Field, Miss., where
he received his airplane me
chanic schooling. He was then
transferred to a flexible gun
nery' school at liOredo, ’Texas,
from wlilch he received his
ground w'ings and was also pre
sented the good conduct medal
at the final exercises. TYom
Texas ho was shipped to Lin
coln Nebraska, to await further
assignment. For several months
he has been stationed at the
overseas training unit in Tuc
son, Arizona, and at this time he
Is awaiting overseas shipment
from Topeka, Kansas. Cpl. Han
dy is the only son of Mr. and
Mrs A. M. Handy, of this city.
His wife, the former Miss Della
Welcli, and son, Eugene, reside
at V'alle Cnici.s.
More Fine Gifts To
Polio FhMB^
Received In Wilkes
Hosiery Mill Employes Give
$183.06; Honda Baptists
$28.50; W. E. Pharr $5
SOnETS KILL
60,000 NAZIS
IN 11 DAYS
Russian troops crumbled power
ful Nazi defenses on a 60-mile
front northeast of Warsaw yester
day and smashed to within 11
miles of the Polish capital while
other Soviet forces drove to with
in 17 miles of Lomza, great Nazi
bastion south of East Prussia’s
Muzurian lakes.
Simultaneously, Russian Baltic
troops raced across the waist of
Estonia west of Pskov to within
93 miles of the Gulf of Riga as
Moscow revealed that Soviet forces
had killed 60,000 and captured 9,-
636 of Nazi Gen. George Llnde-
mann’B 30-odd Baltic divisions,
once numbering some 300,000
men in 11 days of fighting.
Surging forward In a great
flanking movement immediately
below the Bialystok-Warsaw rail
road, Marshal Konstantin K. Ro-
kossovsky’s First White Russian
Army captured- Mostowka, 11
miles northeast of Warsaw’s great
industrial borough of Prage and
were closer to the city than they
apparently had been for some
time.
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8,000 PLANES
RAID NAZIS
IN 28 HOURS
A number of gifts to polio
funds have been made in Wilkes
during the past few days.
Employes of the Wilkes Hosiery fighters thunder down from Brit-
Mills company have voluntarily ain over France in a climatic ef
and without solicitation raised a
Five giant Allied air forces,
sending more than 8,000 planca
against the Germans in 28 hours
in the greatest air operations in
history, yesterday smashed at
Nazi armies, transport and war in
dustry from the Mediterranean
across the French battlefront to
deep inside Germany.
A three-fold offensive since
midnight saw:
1—some 1,500 U. S. 15th Air
Force heavy bombers and fighters
from Italy blast bridges, military
installations and an airdrome
along the Southern French coast
to the Italian Riveria, in the 10th
powerful attack in 11 days on that
area.
2 — Thousands of American
bombers, fighter-bombers, and
niiu w.iuuu.. - fort to seal tne German Seventh
total of $183.06, which has been Army in an escape-proof vacuum
total of $183.00, wnicn uas ueei: in an cova,.,. n- mific inn v.cnu m - —•
forwarded to the State Orthopedic and block enemy supply lines feed- ments are functional, or mental
hospital at’Gastonia and tho emer- Ing a 25,000-square-mile triangle and spiritual, rather than physical,
gency hospital at Hickory to be bounded by La Havre, Le Mans, Symptoms of the condition may be
Used for kreatment of patients and Vitre, with no opposition from observed in the conduct of the in-
from Wilkes which are hospitaliz- the Luftwaffe. eiaiHn=i f?r.me of the svmntonii
ed at those hospitals. 3—The R. --
Yesterday the Honda Baptist blows on the concrete U-boat pens failure to render service, cantank-
church of which Rev. Iredell 0s- at Brest with 12,000-pound bombs, erousness, alcoholism, divorce, ir
borne Is pastor, raised a total of after almost 1,000 giant Lancas- reverance. incompetence, delin
- - - . Halifaxes burled 2,640 quency, etc. Causes for these dlf
tons of explosives on aircraft and ficulties may be grounded in the
engineering plants at Brunswick following: Heredity, unfortunate
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J28.50, which was turned in,to
The Journal-Patriot today to be
forwarded to the emergency hos
pital at Hickory.
Previously W. E. Pharr, of
.filkesboro, made a donation of
$5.00 to the fund being received
here by the Journal-Patriot for
tho emergency hospital at Hick
ory.
In response to an appeal from
Hickory, The Journal-Patriot is
receiving donations here for the
fund now being raised for build-
and equipment for the emer
gency hospltaT which Is caring for
about 150 cases.
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Polio Ban Is Still
In Force; No New
Cases In Wilkes
they
ren
Dr. A. J. Elleir, Wilkes health
officer, today praised the people
of Wilkes for their cooperation In
precautions to prevent spread of
infantile paralysis and urged that
continue to keep their chlld-
at home and away from pub
, places.
The last case reported in Wilkes
was on August 2. And health au
thorities are hopeful that there
not be other cases. The total
the county since June 1 re
mains 35.
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11c
will
for
Early planted crops of small
produce larger yields. Fer
tilizer at planting helps reduce
kill and Increases spring
grains
winter
growth.
KEEP ON
WAR BONDS
and Russelsheim, and on Kell and childhood experience, recondition
Frankfurt.
Arvil Phifer Visiting
Family Here
turned from a sea cruise.
Dies of Wounds
ESCAPE GAP
IS NARROWED
T013MH.es
l' American troops lunged for-
, ward In a powerful attack against
the center of the French front
' Sunday and drove two German
•' armies into the closing arms of a
mighty allied pincers that had nar
rowed the enemy’s escape gap to
13 miles and cut his main lifeline
in that sector.
• j Legions of planes turned the i»e-
; suiting pocket of choked enemy
traffic and milling troops into a
1 cauldon of death and destruction
along a 40 mile stretch from Vire
Staff Sergeant Andrexv Clyde
I'arlter, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.
C. I'arker, of North Wilkesboro,
was i-eportod by the War De
partment August 4th, to liave
died July 14th, as result of
wounds receivtxl in action on
July 7th over Geimany. The re-
IKirt was received from the Ger
man Government tlirougli tlic
International ReI Cross. Staff
Sergeant I’arker received his
wings after grailuatingf from Hie
aerial gunnery school at Hai-
Itngton, Texas. He entered tlie
.service June iWth, 1943, and
vas .sent overseas June 1st,
Ii.’44. He wa.s stationed in Italy
with the 464th Bomber Group
of the Fiftecntli Army Air
Force. He is survived liy liis
motlier and fatiier, one tirothcr
and three sisters. Bu-ster and
Ktliel I’arker, of the home. Mrs.
Clarence Sebastian, of Balti
more, Md., and Mrs. Buster
Nichols, of Purlear.
Kiwanians Have
Interesting Meet
Here Friday Noon
North Wilkesboro Kiwanis club
held a most interesting meeting
Friday noon at Hotel Wilkes.
Program Chairman Ed Caudill
presented Rev. T. Sloane Guy, Jr.,
who addressed Ihe body on the
subject of “This Business of Uv-
Ing’’, He stated that it is agreed
by the medical profession that a
large per cent of all people’s ail-
to the fast-sealing bottleneck be
tween Argentan and Falaise.
Late front dispatches said that
Yank armored forces advancing
from Le Mans had driven to posi
tions north of Argentan. cutting
the main highway from Viro and
spearing within 13 miles of Anglo-
Canadian soldiers driving down in
the Falaise area.
At least 12 divisions, which Ber
lin Identified as the Seventh and
Fifth Armies, totaling well over
100,000 men and possessing sev
eral hundred tanks, were impaled
on the two offensive prongs. A
field spokesman said late Sunday
that they had virtually no chance
of getting out.
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NAZIS PROBE
ALLIED LINES
SOUTH OF ARNO
German armies in Italy—their
morale bolsti.Ted 1/}' a proclama
tion by .A.dolf Hitler telling them
the Nazis will lie ready to as.sume
an offensive in six weeks—sent
many patrols probing into the Al
lies lines soiitii of the .\rno Biver,
Allied headquarters said yester
day.
The -Allied .Military Govern
ment, meanwhile, speeded its ef
forts to bring relief to cilize.as of
Florence, after wilhdrawl of Xa/i
troops from tlie city.
The headquarters of Gen. Kir
Harold Alexander reported indi.r
criminate sniping within Florence
was complicating the task ct
transporting food, water and med
icine across the .Arno. .Streniioius
efforts are being made to curb the
shooting by both patriots and Fas
cists who have been battling each
other for over a week.
S.Sgt. C. Green Is
Missing In Action
ing, or choice.
Counteract these conditions by
service to the underprivileged
and friendliness to everyone, wa.s
the advice given by the speaker.
Prior to the program, Gordon
Finley, Scout Commissioner, made
Seaman Second Class Arvil A.
Phifer, United States Navy is ^
spending a few days leave hete Kiw^ians much
with his family. He has just re
Returns to Duty
vass, saying that Kiwanians pinch
hitting for the Boy Scouts on Mon
day evening collected about 4,50(i
pounds of paper, which netted
$18.26 for the Scout fund.
John Prevette announced that
a meeting of persons interested in
the proposed flood control dam
would be held on Monday eve-
' ning, August 14.
i T. 0. Minton, proprietor of the
Champion Poultry Farm, was in-
ducted into membership in the
' club Friday and the membership
I button was presented by J. B.
i Snipes.
St. Sgt. Curtis Green, who had
been reported missing over Ger
many since June 21, is a prisoner
in Germany, accordln.g to a W ir
Department message received last
week by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Mansfield Green, of Stony Fork.
St. Sgt. Green was a waist gun
ner on a bomber and it is presum
ed that he hailed out when the
plane was disabled. Members of
crews of other planes reported
they saw a number of parachutes
open as the plane lost altitude.
The enrichment of bread and
the increased use of milk are im
proving the diet in important
vitamins and minerals.
Serving In France
Wounded In France
imn M. Khodes, petty of
ficer and has returned
to duty in San hYanclsco, Calif.
Khodes received tho first leave
since ho Joined the navy Do-
OCTiber 10, 1042, and spent It
with tils parents at Mays. Me
saw action on several fronts In
the Pacific, both North and
Boath. He is in the armed guard
and mans the guns aboard mer
chant ships. He likes bis work
fine and Is now retnmlng (or
Pvt. Granville G. Myers, son of
I Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Myers, of
North Wilkesboro, has been
wounded in action somewhere
i while enroute from Southern Eng
land to France, according to word
i received by his parents. He has a
fractured bone beneath the left
I eye and Is. now recuperating In an
> army hospital In England. Be
fore entering the service Pvt.
Myers had worked at Ervin’s
Men’s Shop and just prior to his
enlistment he was manager of the
Economy Oil Company, of Lenoir.
He has been overseas about 15
weeks.
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C«t>t McElwee In England
Ospt. Wm. H. McBlwee Is now
!d England, according to a recent
letter received by TTie Joamal-
Patrlot. Capt. McBlwee is serving
in the Judge Advocate’s depart
ment of the army.
Fvt. Koiand Gray is now ta
France, aoewding to a letter iw
' celved by his wife, the former
Miss Maigaret. Mathis, Pvt.
Gray is the son of Mr. aa# Mta.
J. H. Gray, of High Pidnt. ^
fore enteitag service in Mai^
1948, he was employed sC SUver
Knit Hostary Mffl ta Ugh Foist.