Her* is a ri«w of wliat was left of Harry Aoders«i’s
automobile after it crashed into a lumber hack on high
way 115 neiu- this city Saturday night, killing Ander
son and Claud Gryder, who was riding with him when
*he accident occurred. Many of the thousands who
the wrecked car here during the week-end de
ad that it was demolished to a greater extent than
csur they had ever seen. It traveled about 75 feet
-^throu^ die air after leaving the highway over a small
embankment, struck the top off one lumber hack and
laukded squar^ against a taller stack of lumber. The
Mangled widics of Anderson suad Gryder were removed
from the wreckage with considerable difficulty. Pieces
of die wracked car ware found many yards from the
scene of the crash.
r6ffensivelsStarted
Conmodor^Breh
Of Accident
Wednesday Night
WILKES COWPy COMMISSIONERS-ELECT
Struck By HIt*and4tun Driv
er Near This City on High
way 421; Died Today
HRST ARMY,
NINTH ARMY
OPEN DRIVES
Killed In France
Behind thunderous barraBCS
from field artillery and under the
protection of mighty aerial at
tacks, General Patton’s first army
launched an offenshre In the
Aachen sector ef German today.
Preliminary reports at noon today
■aid the offenalre, which mSy well
be the beginning of the end of
was well under way.
,’tt was aisoitansri
f
Commodore Church, age about
45, died at 9:30 a. m. today at
Wilkes hospital from Injuries re
ceived last night when he was hit
by a hit-and-run driver.
Driver of a truck from Ashe
ville found Church on highway
421 just west of this city at the
intersection of the Gordon Mills
road at 11:40 last night and re
ported the discovery to local po
lice.
State Highway Patrolman L*-
mar Ratcliff said that Church was
struck by a car traveling towkrd
North Wllkesboco and that Church
evidently was walking In the same
direction on the right side of the
highway. He was struck in the
back and was severely Injured In
bis back and head. He never re
gained consciousness.
So far officers have not made
any headway toward learning
Identity of the hit-and-run driver.
A heavy fog, which probably was
one cause of the accident, hamper
ed officers in their efforts last
night to locate the "death car".
Church, a former resident of
the Millers Creek community had
recently been making his home at
Stony Fork. He Is survived by
several children.
Church was the sixth victim of
automobile accidents in this Im
mediate section during the past
two weeks. Two of the deaths
were caused by hit-and-run mo
torists.
No funeral arrangements had
been made today.
AMl^atsers
Are'AiMiMed
Goal foi* Cam|>aigii Begin-
niiig Monday $809,000;
Bonds $198,000
M. P. ABSHER
O. O. BIDDEN I. 3. BROYHILL
Above are shown the candidates who were elected to the office of county comn^
sitmer on November 7 and who will take office on Monday, December 4. C. C. Sid-
den, locsd furniture manufacturer and who is at prewnt register of deeds of Wilkes
county, was accorded a majority of 564 votes over hia opponent, William S. Tomlin
son. I. J. Broybill, orchau-diat and farmer, won in district 2 by a majority of 154 over
Paul J. VestsJ, present chairman of the bo ar^ M. F. Absher, farmer and marebant,
was not imposed in the election in district 3. He is a veteran of several terms on the
board. All three commissioners-elect are Republicans. Sidden and BroyhOI will
succeed the two Democratic members of the present board.
ivA>4i
baa goBS into art ton near ]
l(Glaa4 border.
D0D6HB0YS
HEUTRAUZE
2 BIG FORTS
American doughboys by-passed
bloody Fort Briant yesterday and
boiled in close to the suburbs of
Nets from three sides, clamping
the great fortress city in a death
grip, while In the north British
troops drove five miles through
the boglands of Eastern Holland
to within 37 miles of the key Ger
man Industrial center of Duisburg.
Both Fort Briant and Fort Jean
D’Arc—two of the nine major bas
tions ringing Metz—were neu-
trrtjlEed by Lieut. Oen. George S.
nRon's; 95 th Division, which
captured two smaller forts, Hu
bert and Jussy, as It smashed to
ward the outskiru of the city from
the west. Fort Ilian ge, 14 miles
north of Meti and just south of
Thlnovllle, also were stormed and
Ita Nazi garrison killed or cap
tured.
Drlant’s guns, which barked
gpasmodlcally Tuesday when the
Tanks began pushing past it on
the north, were silent yesterday,
suggesting that the Germans had
ebandoned the mighty mlle-and-a-
half-long structure on the west
bank of the Moselle River as they
previously had, evacuated Forts
~ j^nd L’Alsne after only
ance.
Cpl. James Gordon Kilby, son
of Mrs. Etta KUby, of Pmrlear,
and the husband of the former
Miss Inea CampbeU, of North
Wlike*boro, has boon reported
killed in action in France on
August 25, 1944. He entered
service March 11, 1942, and
trained at Camp Polk, La., and
Fort Benning, Ga. He had des
ert training in tJalHomia and
was sent overseas March, 1944.
He is survived by his mother,
four sisters and one brother:
Miss Mildred Kilby, of Mars
Mill; Mrs. Elmore Myers, of
Winston-Haiem; Mrs. Grayson
Parsons, of Portland, Maine;
Miss Martha Kilby, of Purlear,
and Pvt. Warren KUby, of In-
diantown Gap, Penn, Memo
rial service will be held Sunday,
November 26th at New Hope
church at .2:00 o’clock. Services
will be conducted by Rev. Issac
Watts, pastor, and Rev. A. W.
Eller.
Clyde Warren 111
A-S Clyde W. Warren, of the
Navy, stationed at Bainbridge,
Maryland, baa been confined In
the Hospital for the past week. He
is the son of Mrs. Belle Warren.
Slightly Wounded
C. Shepherd Is
' ided In France
4^ C. Shepherd was sllght-
:nded In France on October
^cording to a War Depart-
mdssage received by his
the former Miss Blolse
, of North Wilkesboro route
A recent letter said that he
1 a hospital In Italy and was
g along all right.
Shepherd entered the army
luary and went overseas In
He Is a son of the late Mr.
[rs. CharMe Shepherd.
sr's Majority
In County 3,775
ajority of votes received
Foster, Republican elect-
office of register of deeds
aber 7, was 3.775 over H.
jars, hi* Democratic op-
A typographical error In
^d vote l»hl* published
mwspuper
majority 9.875 In-
g~775, which la the cor-
Reece O. Wiles, a soldier
from tile Hays community of
Wilkes county, was subtly
wounded in action in France,
according to a War Department
telegram received by his wife,
the former Miss Mary V. Cleary,
of Hays. 'WUee in a son of Mrs.
Stella Wiles, of Hays. His wife
and daughter, Linda, make
their home at Hays.
U. S. FORCES
ARE 10 MILES
FROM ORMOC
Dies In England
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U. S. 24th Division troops, in a
double flanking drive, have al
most completely encircled a regi
ment of Japanese at the northern
end of the Ormoc corridor and the
Seventh Division. In a two-miiel
advance up the west coast of.
Leyte, have pushed to within 101
jlh« jll^ttcneiq;^ Btrpaghold
Father of Harry Anderson,
Atrcident Victim, Dies of
Heart Attack at Ronda
John Anderson, age 70, father
of Harry Anderson, who was kill
ed In a tragic automobile accident
here Saturday night, died sud
denly at Ronda last night.
Mr. Anderson, who lived north
of Ronda, had been to North
Wilkesboro Wednesday afternoon
and was on his way home with
members of his family when they
stopped before a store in Ronda.
While there he stepped to the side
of his daughter, told her that he
was ‘‘going’’ and fell to the
ground, dead. Coroner I. M. Myers
said he died of a heart attack. He
had been in apparently normal
health.
Mr. Anderson is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Mary Anderson, and the
following sons and daughters:
George D. Anderson, Portsmouth,
Va.; J. E. Anderson, of Washing
ton; Herman and John Anderson,
in the army; Joe William and Gil
bert Anderson, in the navy; Mrs.
J. R. Britt, of Norfolk, Va.; and
Mrs. Linvllle Walker, of Ronda.
Funeral will be held at Edge-
wood Baptist church but the time
has not, been set, pending word
from rel.itives at distant points.
State Official Of
Juniors Is Comini;
tdd&jt. : »
Maj. Oen. Frederick A. Irving s !
24 th Division forces, fighting al-j
most three weeks without relief'
in the steaming Leyte Jungles and
mountains, all but snapped the
trap shut on a Japanese regiment
—3,000 to 4,000 men—by driving
toward the corridor road from
both ends and west at a point
slightly south of the town of Ll-
mon, 20 miles up the highway
from Ormoc.
The Japanese were fighting
stubbornly from caves and hill
positions around Limon, at the
western end of a two-mlle hairpin
turn In the road running from the
north coast of Leyte south to Or
moc, but the Americans slowly
were annihilating them in savage
hand-to-hand fighting, front dis
patches reported.
Marriage License
Since November 4 license to
wed were Issued by Register of
Deeds C. C. Sidden to the follow
ing couples; Charles Clay Mooney,
Lenoir, and Martha Laws, Pur
lear; James Adams, North Wilkes
boro, and Ruby Brown, Halls
Mills; Grant Presnell, Sparta, and
Lorene Brooks, Glade Valley;
James Shumaker and Lola Bare,
both of Wagoner; Donald R. Laws
and Naomi Ballard, both of North
Wilkesboro; Charles Owen Se
bastian and Sarah Johnson, both
of North Wilkesboro; Otis Ellis
and Hazel Brown, both of Mertle.
Special Meeting Of Local
Council la Planned For
Tuesday Night Here
Injured In Africa
Clyde Green, vice councilor of
the Junior Order in North Caro
lina, will be the principal speaker
and honor guest at the meeting of
the North Wilkesboro council of
the Junior order to be held ‘Tues
day evening, 7:30, in the lodge
hall.
In addition to the visit by the
state vice councilor there will be
other Interesting features on the
program K,nd refreshments will be
served. The annual offering for
the Junior Order home at Lexing
ton will be taken at the meeting.
Every member is urged to be
present.
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Bgt, Warren G. Roope In
service as a member of the
Ninth Airforce, died in England
on September 18. News of his
death wae contained h> a War
Department message to his wife
on October 81. Roope entered
service August 27, 1942, twin
ed at radio school in Chicago,
advanced training at Tomah,
WIs., and went overseas In June,
1943. He participated In the
Sicily invasion In July, 1948,
and the Invasion of Italy In
September, 1948. Sgt. Roope
came home on furlough In De
cember, 1948, and reported to
Orlwid^ Florida, for reassign
ment In January this year. Go
ing back overseas In March, he
participated In the Invasion. of
France on June 6. Snrvlvlng
are his wife, the former Miss
Beatrice Sloope, of Mwwvian
Falls, his father, F. F. Roope,
of Wllkertwro, seven sisters and
five brothers: Pvt. John H.
Ko^, In France; Pvt. Marvin
Roope, in eervlco overseas!
Morgan, Elm*na, Victoria, Gar-
ley and Clifton Roope, Mrs.
Clarence Jones, Mrs. Roll Par
sons and Mrs. William Wat
kins, of North Wflkeeboro; M«-
Vada BnlUs and Miss Maxine
Koope, of Burlington.
First Lieutenant James Ralph
Holder, son of W. M. Holder, of
Hays, was sU{^tly injured Mon
day when a medium bomber,
which he was piloting ov^ West
Africa, crashed In an attempted
landing. Lt. Omar K. Brokaw,
of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was kill
ed.
Lions Have Good
Program In View
T-5 Vaughn E. Pierce
Home From Overseas
T-5 Vaughn E. Pierce Is home
on furlough aftpr serving with an
engineers regiment In North Af-
|.rlca, Sicily and Italy since Novem
ber. 1942. T-6 Pierce entered
service with the National Guard
company here in September, 1940.
BUY MORE WAR B6NDS
Rev, Courtney Ross to Speak
Friday Evening; Officers
Of Clubs Coming
North Wilkesboro Lions Club
has an excellent program arrang
ed for the meeting to be held Fri
day evening, seven o’clock, at
Hotel Wilkes.
James M. Anderson will have
charge of the program and the
principal speaker will be Rev.
Courtney B. Ross, of Pilot Moun
tain, a highly talented speaker
who Is sure to have an Interesting
message.
Presidents and secretaries of
other clubs In this section of the
state have been Invited to the
meeting by Mr. Anderson, who is
district president of Lions Qlubs
In northwestern North Carollpa.
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Miss Mary Kelly, asslsUnt clerk
for Selective Service board num
ber 2 here, has been ill this week
at the home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. P. Kelly.
REDS CAPTURE
HUNGARIAN
UASTIAN
Red Army tanks and Infantry,
battering down Budapest’s crumbl
ing defense system, yesterday
captured the shelltorn stronghold
of Jaszebery, 31 miles east of
the Hungarian capital, and ad
vanced to within nine miles of
Miskolc, Hungary’s fifth city.
The RnsslanB alsa hammered to
leturnmnOM^aoiftlteaBt
the capital whirti governs enemy
communications between Budapest
and Ctechoslovakla.
German broadcasts announced
flatly that Budapest never would
be declared an open city and it
would be defended as bitterly as
Aachen on the western front. Mos
cow dispatches, however, said that
the final stage of the battle was
under way. The Germans admit
ted extensive withdrawals" to
husband their forces", and the
Red Army won more than 50
Hungarian towns and settlements.
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Organization for the Sixth War
Loan campaign, which will opes
Monday, November 20, baa been
completed and an effort will be
made to canvass the citizenship of
all Wilkes county.
I W. D. Halfacre, chairman, said
i today that in order to meet the
: total quota of |809,000 and reach
jthe "E" bond goal of $198,000 it
will require war bond purchasea
by all the people of the county
who are financially able to buy
bonds. In North Wilkesboro Mrs.
Edd Gardner and Mrs. Gordon
Finley are co-chairmen for tha
canvass and they will have a block
leadar for every block In the city.
The county has been divided In
to dlstricU with a chairman and a
number of canvassers for each
district. Each district has a quota
and the workers will contact all
the people In their respective dis
tricts In the bond selling cam
paign.
Wilkes has a wonderful record
In backing up the atUck flnai-
cially and during the Fifth W’ar
loan campaign earned the honor
of having the name—Wilkes—
placed on a landing craft recently
at Charleston navy yard. It is
hoped that an equally Impressive
record can be made In the Sixth
War Loan.
Following are the names of the
district chairmen and workers, to
gether with the quota for each dis
trict :
BOOMER—94,000.00—
Sherman Sebastian, chairman.
O. B. Carlton, T. F. Greer, Mrs.
Fred Gilbert, Mrs. Arthur Cau
dill, Mrs. Charye Walsh, Mrs.
Johnnie Andrews, Mrs. Charles
.
Kyle Hayes Back
At Law Praetbe
Sgt. Kyle Hayes, who has been
in service in the marine corps for
the past two years, has received
an honorable discharge from the
marine corps and has returned
home.
After a rest period he will re
sume his law practice here In tkc
firm of Hayes & Hayes, in which
he was the senior partner before
volunteering for service in the
marine corps.
Daring his service career Sgt.
Hayes was stationed in California,
at Parris Island, 8. C., and more
recently at Pensacola, Florida.
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L. P. Somers, chairman. S. G.
Maybeiry. E. H. Glass, Mrs. A. F.
Combs, Mrs. Parks Weatherman.
FERGUSON—$5,000.00—
0. M. Proffit, chairman, Mr. T.
W. Ferguson, Fate Matherly, Mrs.
S. F. Miller, Mrs. J. C. West! Mrs.
Vilas Walsh.
GLREATH—$2,500.00—
Ray Hendren, chairman, J. M.
Costner, Mrs. W. H. Tevepaugh,
Mrs. Edd Hendren, Mrs. Lula
Hendren.
HENDRIX—$2,000.00-—
John Barnett, chairman, Mr.
Joe Welch.
LINCOLN HEIGHTS—$500.00—
J. R. Edelin, chairman, Tom
Redding, Florence Blackburn,
Sarah Harris Prof. A. M. Overton.
MAPLE 8PBNOS—$2.000.00—
T. C. Osborne, chairman, Mrs.
Corlce Crane, Sam Triplett.
MILLERS CREEK—$10,000— '
R. V. Day, chairman, Guy Tul-
burt, associate chairman, A. T.
Nichols, Mrs. Sallle V. Vannoy,
Odell Whittington, Mrs. M. F.
Bumgarner, Joe: Hayes, E. R.
Eller, Evan Colvard, J. M. Staley.
MORAVIAN FALlfi AND
INIBES KNOB—$7,000—
W. A. Jennings, chairman, Mrs.
0. W. Scroggs, Mrs. B. M, Pardue,
Miss Elizabeth Jennings, Mrs. J.
G. Bentley, Mrs. Ethel Broyhlll,
Miss Bessie Brock, J. A. Russell,
Miss Annie Lou Ferguson, T. B.
Cain, W. O. Lowe, F. G. Brewer,
W. C. Hendren. Mrs. Bernice
Quick cooking in minimum wa
ter keeps food vaiues from want- M^‘°Carrto HlirMrrc!'k
ing.
Wounded In Italy
Pfc. Roby F. WUcox WM
woUnded in Italy on October 10,
according to a War Department
telegram received by his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Wilcox,
of North Wilkesboro ronto two.
He entered the army Sept 22,
1948, and has been, overseas
since Marrii 1.
Bretholl.
MT. PLEASANT—$8,000.00—
E. M. White, chairman, T. O.
Minton, associate chairman, E.
M. Huffman, Mrs. Taft Foster,
Mrs. Bruce Miles, J. C. McNeil.
MTN. VIEW—$6,000.00—
P. W. Grier, chairman, C. C.
Blevins, Paul Church, N. F.
Brooks, Mrs. B. W. Pendry, Arlle
(See War Loan—page seven)
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Richard W. Bowles
Dies In Baltimore
Richard Webb Bowles, age 43,
former resident of North Wilkes
boro, died Tuesday in Mercy hos-
pltid, Baltimore, Md., and funeral
service will be held Saturday, two
p. m., in Reins-Sturdlvant chapel
here. Burial will: be in Mount-
lawn cemetery.
Mr. Bowles Is survived by his
wife, Mrs.'- Blanche Daugherty
Bovles, two sons, Richard and
Robert Bowles, his father and
tnother, Mr. and Mrs. John W.
Bowles, of North Wilkesboro, and
the following brothers and sie-
ten: Gwyn Bowles, Roanoke, Va.;
Leopard Bowles, Peoria, Dl.;
f Jonee j, Bowles, in the army in
i F^ee; Deward Bowles, Honston,
. Delatop Bowles, Battlnore,
> Mil; Mrs. Harold Cooks, ' ffigb
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