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b Killed By 1 J§ MMoiitahiView - , —Af* Fhre, It Victbii of Accident On Saturday Afternoon Otfleen tod&r were contlnolng ttefr searcb for the hit and run drirer of a oar w^h killed a flve- rear-old child on the road In the Tillage of Mountain View Satur- 4ay afternoon. Sheriff C. Q. Poindexter and Patrol Sergeant A. H. Clark locat ed a car which they are confident it the one which hit and killed Anna Lee Clore, and efforts are being made to. locate the young man who was drlrlng the car. The child was hit in the middle of the road about four o’clock and was In^Mtly killed. Her head and bod^^ere- badly broken and crushed. Although several persons were .^IdMo have seen the accident, the experienced much dlffl- cutoRn finding a lead toward dls- coiB% of the car and driver. The Twhich hit the little girl and Oen. Dongla« MatArtimT rtporttd today, as tbt Tanks tmthtd wtak opposition to take the town of An geles and swept to the environs of the TlUl city of Ban Fernando. Meantime Tanks of tht First Army Corps scored a triumph on the stubbornly-held left flank by capturing the Utterly-defended city of Rosario. Thu pressed on toward a Junction with another U. 3. column on the road leading to Oagnlo, Philippine Summer capi tal. • ■Y tai^d ’to stop, tiad driven off from a service station less than 100 it yards from the^cene of the acci dent. • After much inquiry a descrip tion of the car was obtained and the officers found it several miles from the scene of the accident. The left headlight of the car was broken out and bits of hair and scalp were found on the broken edges of the glass. It was estab lished that the registered owner of the car was not driving it Sat urday afternoon but officers are looking for a suspect, whose name was not disclosed, and who is re ported to nave fled from the county. The accident victim was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Clore, who recently moved from near Jonesville to Mountain View. Surviving are the father and mother, one sister, one brother, two half sisters and two half brothers. Funeral service will be held Tuesday, two p. m., at Swan £inH.Lovettel$ Claimed By Death Samuel H. Lovette, age 50, well Jknown resident of North Wllkei- boro,, died suddenly Saturday morning. 2:30 o’ffock, at his home. Mr. Lovette had been In appar ently normal health. A ew min utes before he died he mentioned some pain in his head and death came suddenly. For several years Mr. Lovette had been engaged In trucking and fanning business here. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Goldie Lovette, one son and one daughter, Clyde Dean Lovette and Miss Ruth Lovette, of North .Wllkesboro. Funeral service was held to day, 11 a. m., at Relns-Sturdlvant chapeC and burial was In Mount Lawn cemetery. Rev. L. B. Mur ray conducted the last rites. -V Cecil Kilby Sells Motor Truck Line Sgt. Rossell J. 'Triplett, who was pinomoted to his present rank after receiving the bronze star medal for hwolc achieve ment against the enemy, is now home on a 80-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Triplett, of Rooda. The following' citation accompanied the presentation of the bronze star medal to Sgt. Triplett by Major General J. lAwton Col lins; .Pfc. Russell J. Triplett for heroic achievement In ae- tlcn against the enemy on 18 July, 1944, in France. Atttr a heavy artillery barrage, the ene my, armed with small arms, at tacked with an estimated force of two platoons of Infantry. No ticing that the nwchine gunner was killed, and that the assis tant machine gunner was seri ously wounded, Pfc. Triplett left the comparative safety of his foxhole and manned the ma- chine gon, which he found Jammed. He reduced the stop page and put the gnn Into ac tion, although the enemy was then only one hundred yards away. ORie quick thinking and imhesitaUng action by Pfc. 'Triplett in taking over a ma- riiine g^nn that was a vital point in the defense of his platoon’s sector Tssultijig in IrlUlng two of the enemy and wsnndisg another three, and was Instni- attaefc. Red Cross In Need Of Knitters New ports that knitting has dropped off greatly during the last few by the armed forces ls*lncreasing ARMKtlKHIII BOKLimU Fut-rolUjM( Ajyenceh spearheads reached to wlthla Sf air mllea of Manila y^afday, J.W. Clay Tells Kiwanis About Travels in Brazil Club Obaervea AnniTeraanry We«k; More Effective Pa- nef per Salvage Pkum« J. W. Clay, of Winston-Salem, delivered a most Interesting ac count of his travels through Bra zil, In an address Friday noon before th# North Wllkesboro Kl- wanls club. Dudley Hill was program chair man and presented Mr. Clay. He related that he was bom In Cald well county and early ^-l Ufe had —’limited the urge to roam, wlf- In his being a printer -il and later a tramp printer. ' h?i8 travels carried him to Brazil, which country afforded much material for discourse. The address of Mr. Clay was very humorous and highly entertaining. Kiwanis on Friday, celebrated anniversary week. B. G. Finley, member of the Klwan«'B Educa tion committee, read greetings be ing sent to International Kiwanis President Dean. Ten members at the local club plan to attend an inter-club meet at Salisbury Wed nesday evening to hear Dean in an address. Prodnotloa Board sad in charge of salvage, was present at the club meeting and explained the need for more paper salvage in Wilkes county, which is training in the state. Following the meeting he met with the Public Affairs com mittee to lay plans for more ef- Wllkes County Red Cross re- means of paper salvage. Guests Friday were as follows: VI. v—.vo — — Bill Gabriel with W.'G. Gabriel; months In spite of the fact that elements with Pet Williams; the need for knitted garments jj jj Hutchens with P. W. Eshel- 4bvn AWTnA/U la iTTAWaOaIn O' w ww man; Oscar Phillips with H. H. _ „ UlttU, TTltaa XA. AA. The local chapter has over 200 Morehouse. J. W. Clay, Rev. A. _ ^ J — » W MM V n M -k 4 V* f* 4 **« 11 af __ _. pounds of yarn on hand that must be made up Immediately. The type garments now needed are navy scarfs, navy turtleneck sweaters, army helmets, army wristlets, army rifle mitts and arpiy sweaters. The Red Cross will ' s glad to teach groups to knit .i there Is interest in this typo class. Any- Methodisl one who would like to learn to knit should call the Red Cross of fice telephone 307 and make an appointment so an instructor could be secured. The Red Cross office is open from 8:30 to 12:00 and from 1:00 to 4:00 each day except Saturday at Which time it cloees at noon. Yarn may be obtained st any time C. Waggoner and R. E. Zimmer man were club guests. ■y Cecil Kilby, who recently pur- the office is open. chased the motor express line be-; -V- — tween this city and Rpone, has L. "G. Critcher Home sold the line to Buckner ;Truck-! L. G. Critcher, printer first Ing company, of As^i^vllle, which class, of Camp Peary, Va., spent will continue the express service the week-end at his home at Mora- to the points along the line. vian Falls. e. E. MILLER IS A SURVIVOR OF THE ‘HOEL’, U. S. DESTROYER W HEROIC STAND AGAINST JAPS o:m. MSLUtR/jne G. E. Miller, fireman first class, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Miller, - of Wllkesboro route two,* Is one of the survivors of the sinking of the destroyer Heel In the^heroic naval battle of Leyte Gulf Octo ber 25. His s^ip was one of two de stroyers and a small destroyer escort which rajide a suicide stand, against overwhelming ■ odds and covered the withdrawal of vulnerable escort* (j^rrlers which had protected General MacAr- thnr’s army In the initial Inva sion of the Philippines, Associated * Press dispatches following the engageihent listed the forces against the 4bree small . ships of being, four Japanese bat tleships, eight cruisers and 13 de- stroyefs. One bf‘ the American destroyers laid S smokescreen, darted back into it and' delivered . (See Miller—page eigbit) Crusade For Christ Movement Now On Churches Get Willing Response to Appeal For Funds For Work Crusade For Christ movement among Methodist churches in Wilkes is making excellent pro gress and apparently all the quota of funds for the Wilkes churches will be reached. In the First Methodist church In North Wllkesboro excellent re sponse was given the movement financially at the service Sunday and the task of contacting all the memi>erBhlp Is continuing this week* , On Sunday morning the congre gation of the Wllkesboro Metho dist church raised the church’s quota and on thp previous Sunday the Union church reached its goal. Good reports have been re- cqjved.9 from otheV Methodist churches in Wilkes. •V THIRD JOmS DMVEALONC BROAD FROIT Purple heart award has been received posthnmonsly by Mrs. Ooia Pruitt Ohnrdi for her hns- band. Pvt. Hansford T. Church, who was klUed in action In France on October 10, only 20 days ■ after he landed. Pvt. CSinrri), son of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Church, of MUlefs Credk, en- tered service In January, 1944, and received tratwliiMhl Oamp Wolters, Texas. A letter from the chaplain of Pvt. (Ntnrdi’s regiment stated that he was klUed in Montenoy, France. Deadline Is Set For A.A.A. A|lplication Fanners NotiTietl of Penods When Applications For Payments Accepted S. L. Tamer, executive secre tary of the Wilkes Triple A, today annonneed a number of deadf for farmers to make appllc: February 15 will be tr date on which 'Wilkes fariS may file their applications tor practices carried out under the 1944 program. Applications for sudsldy pay ments tor dairy feed for the months of November and Decem ber wjll be aeci^pte^ mtil March 1. JfchiiM^TwukrfwfVvich mhy ExplodlngWi new Allied Witter offensive alimg a 17-mile front in the St. Vtth area, veteran U. S. First Army donghboye smashed ahead two miles yesterday in a combined aasanlt with the 'Third Army, which eaptured seven towns of the fringe of the main Sle^ fried Line defenses. • Opening the attack at 4 a. m. in a blinding snowstorm the crack U. S. 1st Infantry DiAOion spear headed the drive east ^ Melme- dy and quickly took thtttowns of Bercheid, Heppenbach and Heps- cheid, clustered in a group some eight to 10 miles northeast of St. Vlth. Other Infantry units driving through a winter gale and four inches of new-fallen snow, cap tured 'Vallender in the same gen- eral and pushed 600 yards beyoiwi^ y Locftil Kiwanians To Hear Ben Dean At Kiwanis Meet Mw. forJm MdPtfw, . be made In A^ and' The date for filing fo^Jnqw to bacco grower allotments has been extended to February 28. After that date no applications for new allotments will be accepted. Ben Dean, advertising executive and 'president of Kiwanis Intwr- national, will be the principal speaker at an inter-club meeting sponsored by the Kiwanis Olnh of Salisbury Wedne^y evening, Jan. 31, at the adkin Hotel there. Some 150 Kiwanians from Greensboro, Lexington, North Wllkesboro, Winston-Salem, and other nearly clnbs'have indicated that they wilmtend the meeting, according to mrry W. Lawrence, president of the Salisbury clnb. In announcing plans for Dean’s aj^earance, Lawrence said that Kiwanis had 11 members at Its In itial meeting at Detroit In the winter of 1916. 'Todhy the «om- mnuftf terYlce organifntlon points RF|^n8UmpShU>'09 tf IS.OOO In ^e armed forces Dean, a former nevapaper edi tor and now owner of, a widely known advertising agency will discuss the role of KlwanU in the war and post-war world as key- aJn)inistrative theme for 1946, Bottles of blood plasma can *>eL,,^. Kiwanis International’s dropped without a parachute War—Build for Peace. 10.000 feet without breakage, Gets Purple Heart Smnewhere la the Pacific (Delayed) — Marino Sergeant William O. Andetoon, 28, of Wllkesboro, N. O., was pre sented with a Purple Heyt, at • Pacific base for suffered on D-Day The award was phmeffBr him by Major General CUftqn Gates, commanding general of the Fomth Marine DlvUion, at impressive ceremonies daring which 26 other Marines also re ceived Purple Hearts. Gem. Oatee, in a brief address, said: “All America is proud of the work yon have done. Ton men paid for this medal in your own blood". Anderson, the son of Mr. and Mrs. W.‘ 8. Anderpon, of Wllkesboro, was hit in the chest by shrapnel from a Jap artil lery shell while he was in a landing craft going to Salpnn. He returned to duty nine days later. Anderson, who was a service station operator before lie enUsted May 16, 1941,'was edneated in the North WUkes- boro public schools. Methodist Midweek Service Cancelled Wednesday evening prayer service at 'the First Methodist cburch here this week has been called off In order to allow more time for the Crusade For Christ campaign now under way. 'The board of stewards meeting scha daled for'Tueaday night this week has been postponed until Tuesday night next week, V Choir Practice* For Juniors Wednesday •Announcement has been made that junior choir practice at the First Methodist church will bo held Wednesday afternoon, 3:30, at the church. Knitting; Club Is Active In Making Service Sweaters Missing In Action Pfc. Ray li, Hayes was report ed missing in action in 6elglnm 'since -pecember 22, accoc^ng tq an official War Deittrtinesit telegram received by Us par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. Hayes,' of Pores KnOb. . Pfc. Hayes en tered service in received ' training at Camp ftik. La., Los Angeles, Calif., and- Port Ban ning, Ga.' He went ovmmeas in Jnne,' '194te,‘ woa wonnded in France in September and went *back'On dn^ October 18. When last tieard from be was in Ger many. Pfc. Hayes has two brothers In service: Gpl. Brady JU Hayes, serving' with an en gineers regiment hi Italy; and Pvt.’Boy F.’Hayds, who la to traltdng at Fort MeClellaii, A]p- BUT MORE WAR BONDS For two hr three years a knltr ting club has been functioning In North Wllkesboro on Red 'Cross work. The drib has not even sought of recBlved publicity, the only reward for their work being the satisfaction }n knowing they have been serving their country in the war effort. • Some facts about the club have been uncovered by Mrs., Hadley Hayes,' publicity .director of the Wllkee chapter of the Amerlcatn Red Cross. 'Hie membership of the club- Is composed of women and girls Wo reside pn Q, D, and F streets In' the eastern part of North’ 'Wllkesboro. 'The members' have been meeUng regularly on ’Thursday nights iif the. homes of memhprs and the army and navy' sweaters they have knitted have accounted for a substantial pro- pOftlon of the sweater output by the. WUies chapter. ' . Ne-w members are- received at regnlu totervala. and tbb clnb 'wRl accept members vfho do not inow bPW to’knit'and 'will supply th« BOOMsafy ipstmctlpw-te.teapl) 'tbsin. Bed C^roM leailtfs soggeft stoillar elnbe Jo otMa >»alMae. Pfc. Frank Dean Jarvis was serionsly wonnded to Gemiaiiy January 2, according tea tele gram received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Jarvis, of Cycle. Pfc. Jarvis entered serv ice In FebrnW, 1948, received training at Fort Knox, Ky., Oamp Campbell, Ky., Camp Rucker, Ala., and Camp Pickett, Va. He went overseas a year ago and was to England until June 6, when he participated to (he tovaston of France on D- Day, Since that date he served in a tank division of the First Army, W. E. Gaither la Taken By Death BEdSMMAIII BEIURBOAD; MEllllEL FALLS 'The Red Army, i’n the greateat single blow to Germany's war pro- duetion, yesterday eleared tha to- dnstrial and mining area of Up per Sileala, r^hed the border of Northeast Germany and smashed to within 109 miles of Berlin, in its advance b^ond enolreled Pot- nan, Moscow announced last bight. The Soviet high command vealed that Russian troops,wmw plunging toward the German cap ital and the Baltic inland port of Stettin on a 135-mile front and were within 88 miles of Stettin, at the mouth of the River Oder. At the same time,' Soviet forces ended a tbyee-month sl^e of Me- mel by capturing that port and completely freeing Lithuania while Berlin reported that Soviet tanks bad penetrated to "the built- up’’ area of the East Prussian cap ital of Konlgsberg, Moscow dis patches described Koningsberg as "going down in flame and smoke’’. V- Mrs. Yates Dies Here On Sunday Well Known Resident of the Boomer Community Dies At Home of Daughter Well Known Citizen of Mil lers Creek Community Died Sunday; Funeral Tuesday W. B. Gaither, well known and highly respected citizen of the M^ffS Croak community, dlod lowing an illness of several weeks Mr. Gaither was a lifelong resi dent of Ms home commnnlty, bO- ing a son of the late Alexander and Anne Gaither. He was 74 years of age. Throughout his life Mr. Gaither was engaged in farm ing and waa actively interested in church and community affairs. He was a member of Friendship Methodist church. 'The surviving members of Mr. Gaither’s family are his wife, Mrs. Hattie F. Gaither, two sons and two daughters: Mrs. L. B. Bobbitt, Greensboro: Wlnton B. Gaither, Pittsburg, Pa.; Mrs. Lee Edward Harris, North Wllkes- boro; and- John 'Walter Galthef, a first class petty officer in the navy and now on sea duty. Also sur viving is one brother, John Gaither, of Millers Creek. li^ineral service will be held 'Tuesday, 11a. m., at Millers Creek Methodist church. Rev. J. -L. A. Bumgarner ■will condnet the service, assisted by Rev. S. N. Bumgarner and Rev. Mr. Greene. -V- Funeral service was held this afternoon at Zion Hill Baptist j church at Boomer for Mrs. Martha Phillips Yates, highly respected lady of the Boomer community who died Sunday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. W. F. Jones, in North Wllkesboro. Mrs. Yates was visiting in the home of Mrs. Jones a few weeks agoVhen she became ill. A daughter of the late Ellaha and Mary Ferguson Yates, Mrs. Tates was 88 years of ag«. Her inm*Birr »6i>iwr=T*p- Tated, ;ni4 several, years ago. Snrvivlngj^jTB. Yatek are one son and ^^Skaughters: Hiomas E. tatesAf^^^Pctrolt, Michigan; Mrs. J. D. r^^^ps, of Lenoir; Mrs. W. P. Jones, of North Wilkeeboro; and Mrs. Johnson Caldwell, of Boomer. Rev. B. V. Bumgarner, pastor conducted the funeral service at Boomer this afterdoon. The serv ice was largely attended and many beautiful flowers attested to the esteem in whfch the life of Mrs. Yates was held. Burial was In the chureh cemetery. V- Harvel Howell With Eller*8 Hatchery Now Harvel Howell, for the past several years manager of the men’s department of Belk’s De- partmen'i. store here, has resigned his position to enter business with his fatheiMu-law, Z; Q. Eller, In the operation of Eller’s Hatchery and feed store, on Tenth street. Mr. Howell assumed his new du ties this week. ' Grandson Of Dr. Taylor Is Killed Pfc. 'William Floyd Taylor, Jr., of Youngstown, Ohio, grandson of Dr. W. A. Taylor, of this city, was killed December 26th in Luxem bourg. V- Pfc. Reo J. Wood Gets Purple Heart Pfc. Reo J. Wood, son of Jim and Alda Wood, of North Wllkes boro, ha* received the Purple Heart for wounds recelv'ed In ac- .tlon in Germany on December 6. He sent his medal to his mother, and Is back on duty with his out fit, having recovered from his w.ounds. He entered the army November- 18, 1942, and trained at Camp Adair, Oregon; also Los Angeles, Calif., and Camp Car-* son, Colo., before going overseas in August, 1944. THE FIGHTING “ZOOKS” IS AT HOME ; STEELMAN IS STILL BOXING Hugh Steelman, kno^ In box ing circles as "Hector Zooks”, has taken time out during 14 trips across the Atlantic to Mlep in fighting Irlm. Hugh, who has fought oyer 890 fights and lost less than a' dozen, is a specialist, .first class, in the navy and is captain of the boxing team on the destroyer which he has served on contlnuonsly be tween American , and European port*. . ’ * . Hugh has had a fight at about eVery port, and the destroyer has put In at many ports. Recently he' fought to i draw with a good boxer at an Efiglisb port and didn’t ^ow until after the flKht that hl7i opponent’s name 'wa^ Ryan and that he was* from' Greensboro. During* the bout, hovisver, he did leom that his bp- pdneilt TM better tttaa tttntie fu (■yStewtonn pige eight) •A'**-' J?/,. 3 f-ii: ' lit 'Ai. 11 ftfn ^ -M anlM tia-'s?.
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