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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-03-28
Wilkes Girl Wins
In Public Speaking
Miss Madge Kilby of Lansing,
Winner of Second Place
In The District.

Miss Ina Lee White, Ronda
high school girl who won first
place in the American Legion's
fifteenth district oratorical con-
test held Saturday in Wilkesboro,
will go to Lexington Thursday
night to take place in the Lee
gion's regional contest.
Miss Madge Kilby, of Lansing,
was second place winner in the
district contest. The district is
composed of Wilkes, Allegheny,
Ashe, Alexander and Iredell
counties.
L. M. Nelson, commander of the
Wilkes post of the Legion, con-
Quoted the contest held in
Wilkesboro and five judges selec-
ted the winners.
The subject of the orations
was How the Constitution Bene-
fits the United States and it's Citi-
zens."
Winner in the regional contest
will take part in the department
contest to select a winner to rep
resent the state in the national
contest, where a $4,000 scholar
ship will be the grand prize.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-03-28

With it's indemnity feature, insuring
members against loss caused by dogs, the
program of the Ashe Sheep Growers AS
ISOLATION should appeal to every raiser OF
sheep in the county and should in time re-
store the production of lambs and wool to
former figures. Sheep provide two sources
of revenue to producers and now that in
surance against loss is available, there is
no reason whatever for having only 5000
sheep in the county instead of 10000, as
was the case only few years ago. Sheep
eat weeds as we'll as grass! To Messrs. H. D.
Quessenberry, c. J. Rich, w. B. Austin, H.
H. Burgess and others go our commenda-
tons for their interest in forming the AS
ISOLATION. We urge all growers to join.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-03-28
Loo

We hope the Rotary Club and all civic
organizations in the county, as well as the
farmers themselves, will take the good adj
vice of Mayor Floyd Grouse, of Sparta, and
start the promotion of a reforestation pro-
gram. It's advantages are fourfold. Ulti-
mately such program will pay large div
idends in terms of more lumber for sale,
conservation of soil and improvement OF
hunting and fishing Now is the ideal time
to start setting out some trees. The fede-
raj government will allow each farmer
$4,000 for setting out 1000 seedlings and
that will cover the cost. Let's boost this
proposed activity.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-03-28
Easter Service
In New Church
Service Held In New Lansing
Methodist Church Build
ing On Sunday.

A dual observance was held in
the newly completed Methodist
church at Lansing, Sunday, the
christening of the new church
and a special Easter service.
Work on the church has been
gong on for several years and
after much time and effort the
new building has been completed.
and service was held in it for the
first time on Easter.
The pastor, Rev. J. C. Woot
ton, -Jr. said that he felt very
much indebted to everyone who
had made this new building pos
sible and wished to extend to
every one a cordial invitation to
worship in the church.
The impressive Easter program
which was carried out on Sun
day was as follows:
Softly now the Light of Day"
choir; Prayer and Scripture
Rev. j. G. Wooton, Jr.,; Angels
Roll the Rocks Away" - Choir;
Poem Resurrection Mrs. J. G.
Wooten, Jr.; Duet Christ Arose,
Miss Lois Dixon and Miss Clara
Perkins; Sermon IF a man die.
shall he live again?"-Rev. J. C.
Wooten, Jr.,; Duet Christ the
Lord is Risen Today, Miss Lois
Dixon and Miss Clara Perkins:
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-03-28

River, who get inspired every time Prof.
Eller yells Wildcats, fought their way
through 1913 teams in the big tournament
at Winston-Salem and, in blaze of glory,
march back up the mountains with the
coveted trophy That fine team advertised
Ashe county in a fine way and to Coach
GRAPHICAL, Prof Eller and every member OF
the squad go our thanks and congratula-
tons.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-03-28
Grassy Creek News

Mr.. Archie Blevins returned
home Saturday after having
spent a week in West Virginia.
Misses Wilma Barker, Madge
Blevins and Mabel Handy were
business visitors in West Jeffer-
son, last Thursday.
Mr.. Ray Blackburn from near
Cleveland, Ohio, is spending a
few weeks with his parents, here.
A special Easter program was
given by the Young Peoples
League here Sunday night.
Mr.. G. c. Barker spent Tues
day at Galax, Va.
Mr.. Howard Sexton, a student
at Chipel Hill, spent the Easter
holidays at home.
Mr.. Rex and Miss Altaleen Bile
wins from Roanoke, Va, also
spent the holidays at home.
Mrs. w. M. Reynolds who has
been in the Bluefie1d hospital re-
turned home Saturday.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-03-28
Silas Creek News

Messrs Pearne, Kyle and Miss
Selma Dickson, of Winston-Sa-
lem, Greensboro and jefferson,
respectively, spent the weekend
with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. w. Dickson.
Irrespective as to whether or
not the grounding has anything
to do with the weather, we have
had the longest spell of winter
weather within the memory of
the Oldest citizen of this commu-
nifty.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Martin, of
Boonville, North Carolina spent
the week end with their parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. G. M. Dickson.
Considering the inclement wea-
Their, the WPA forces under the
supervision of Archie Barton are
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-03-28
TWO ARE TRIED FOR
PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS

Easter was quietly observed
here and only one case came be-
fore the local court on Monday.
Charlie Howell, of West Jeffer-
son was fined $40 and the cost
for public drunkenness. On Sat-
urday j. r. Davis, of Hemlock,
was tried for public drunken
ness and was fined SIS and the
cost.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-03-28
REVIVAL SERVICE
AT BUFFALO CHURCH

A revival is being conducted
at Buffalo Baptist church. Rev.
]. R. Shumate, prominent Baptist
preacher from Sugar Grove, Va,
is doing the preaching, assisted
by the pastor Rev. Grady Ham
by from Boone.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-03-28

N uts.
AND
Kernel.
By
TROY /.
JONES

There is now a disturbance ir
the weather and radio, telegra'
phic and telephone communities
ton supposed to be caused by
sun spots. think it must be Or
sen Welles broadcasting one Of
his Marian scripts while Hitler
is laying claim to the phenome.
ma himself.
%
Newspaper men insist on say
ing that the thermometer "hov.
ers" around so and so degrees.
am thinking that the weather
plain "set" down on us this week
end.
Mr.. Grouse who is said to have
doubled the population of Spar
ia has come forth in a Rotary
speech advocating a reforestatior
program. He is the man for the
job and his motive is some place
for "Babes Lost In the Woods.
The snow has retarded natures
progress, but the political "saps''
continue to run
Another paradox: Rivals in
dress try to tout strip" each 9th
er. Fine weather for it!
You had better send in checks
that will fire. The bankers have
quit blowing them!
X
Some times when you see a
man holding the wire and think
he has not gotten his number he
is just listening to his wife.
* x
One way to stabilize the gov
eminent would be to shear the
mains and tails of the politicians
and put them in the barn.
x y X
Some of these ambitious speak
ers are the ones that don't get
a whack at it at home.
Nearly every combination OF
the alphabet has been used but
APE. That is Propagation and q
strict reservation for the politi-
clans.
There are ten men running for
governor of North Carolina. How
can they go out and fight the
chain stores and mass produc-
ton?
saw a picture of an elephant
leaning on a shovel handle!
y ,
The vanguard of modern politi-
cal principles was David Harem's
version of the Golden Rule which
is as follows: do to the other
fellow what he would like to dc
to we, and do it fust".
+
A beauty parlor is a place
where nature resigns for a drug
store parade.
They have opened up the tombs
and graves of King Solomon's
fathers in-law. This is what I call
mass production in time of an
election.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-03-28

$25O.OO and the money borrowed
from the Farm Security Admin
istration. BY charging 10 cents
per head for dipping, it was
thought that all expenses and in
vestment cost on the vat could
be paid for.
Mr.. Quessenberry said that 10
of these watts were purchased
last year by farmers in southwest
Virginia, and that they were Civ
ing splendid results.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-03-28

All Ashe county is proud of the. River
view high school boys basketball team,
winners of the Ashe, Appalachian and
Northwestern titles Fighting hard every
inch of the way, the boys from up on New
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-03-28

making rapid progress on the
Helton Hill.
w. w. Dickson, travelling sales
man, made a trip into Grayson
and Carroll Counties. Va, last
week. s.. .......
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-03-28
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to extend thanks to
our friends for the sympathy and
kindness during the sickness and
death ofIMrS. Blevins.
JOHN H. BLEVINS
and FAMILY
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-03-28
PARAGRAPHS

Who will be the next Governor OF North
Carolina? One guess is still about as good
as another The same rule applies to the
presidential race and couldn't it also be
true of the war in Europe?
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-03-28
CENSUS TAKERS WILL
BEGIN WORK TUESDAY

Continued from Page One)
Guiding population, farm, housing
and business, but the most i'm
portant perhaps is the population
census.
Under farming farmers are re-
qulred to give detailed reports
on their farms, livestock and so
on.
BRANDON NEWS
Rev. Carl Sturgi11 preached a
very interesting sermon at Beth
ell last Sunday to a large crowd.
Rev. Walter Powers and wife
have returned to Maryland after
visiting relatives here.
Mrs. Roby and Grace Blevins
have been i'll for the last few
days.
Mr.. Dean Powers has returned
home after spending a few
months in Maryland.
Rev. Bluford Sexton and fan1i-
ly were the dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Jones Richardson Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dewey Blevins,
OF Squire, w. Va, are visiting re-
lativeS here.
Miss Magaleen Powers spent
the week end at Tuckerdale with
Miss Ruth Badger.
Mr.. Banner Powers spent the
week end with his mother, Mrs.
Fannie Powers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-09
MAN C0NFESSES
HE SLEW CHILD
Tells Police He Clicked Her
And Then Burned Her
Body In Furnace

NEW YORK, Nov. 8.-R-A two
day search of Bronx buildings. base
ments, rooftops and sewers ended to-
day when police said a building SUI
pe%rintendent confessed that he had
choked and cremated Genevieve Con-
molly, 10, parochial school honor stu
dent.
Something snapped in my mind"
was the explanation which Assistant
District Attorney Sylvester Ryan
said was given by the superinten-
dent, Thomas Conroy, 80. He quoted
Conroy later as saying the girl had
threatened to tell her mother that
he had kissed her in a hallway after
she had done an errand for him.
Ryan said Conroy broke down and
declared, II want to get this off my
conscience" after he had talked with
the girls parents. Conroy and the
Connollys came from West Meath,
Ireland; and the parents had appeal
ed to him for help in their quest for
their missing, blue-eyed, red-haired
daughter for whom $50 detectives
had searched since her disappearance
Wednesday night.
Conroy has n son, six.
Police, who had dug under tons of
coal, searched neighborhood sewers
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-09
HOPS0N'S QUICK
PROFITS RELATED
Story Of How Utility Mag.
nate Made Huge Profits
Unfolded In Court

NEW YORK, Nov. 8.-R-HoW-
ard C. Hopson and his partner
John l.. Mango invested 1926, 567
in 1922 and within two years, a
witness testified today, they turn
ed tnat investment into a $685., 00C
profit and ownership of the $1,000,
900, 900 Associated Gas and Elec-
trio system.
Charles A. Daugherty, an EN-
ploye of Hopson and official O.
many of the Associated systems
subsidiaries, described in the fed
eral court trial of Hopson and two
others on conspiracy and mai
fraud charges the financial deals
by which he said Hopson because
the guiding genius" of the vast
holding company system. Mango
is not a defendant.
In March of 1922, the govern
ment witness said, Associated Util-
tiles, the private company of Hop
son and Mango purchased for $48,'
900 the controlling interest in the
Continued OH Page Two, Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-09
PUMPS CONNECTED
TO 3 DEEP WELLS
May Be Used If Water In
River Does Not Remedy
Situation Immediately

Three pumps which may be used
to transfer deep we'll water to the
city mains were connected yesterday
by the city water department and
following a test today may be placed
into operation to give water consum-
ers of Wilmington a supply of fresh
water at least temporarily.
One other pump will be installed
this morning and the test Will be
made Immediately afterwards. Y
However, it appeared doubtful II
the pumps will be used at this time
as the water being let into Toomer's
Creek is sufficiently fresh to make
the water already there of such LITTLE
salinity as to make it both potable
and disable for washing soon.
J. d. L. Wade, city commissioner
of public works, said the gates TO
TONERS Creek were opened yester-
day to allow water containing only
Continued on Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-09
Krupps Works
Bombed By
British Force
Four Hour Attack Report
ed To Have Left Arma-
ment Plants In Flames
IS MIGHTIEST ASSAULT
Raj Planes Drop Explo-
sives Through Four
Hour Bombing Raid
(By The Associated Press)

w I'M
LONDON, Nov. S.-A four-hour
British bombing attack which left
the vast Krupp armament works in
Essen. Germany, enveloped in zone
huge sheet of fire'-the longest and
mightiest assault yet loosed upon
that vital Nazi war foundry-was
reported by the air ministry tonight,
It was a bombardment which be-
gan a little after 8 o'clock last
night and went on internationally
through the night and into the early
morning hours. When it was over
returning pilots said that the rec
result Of their work could be seer
60 miles away.
1t was in several senses an I'm.
precedented raid, according to Brit
ish accounts, for it was launched by
an extraordinarily big force OF
medium and heavy bombers, drop.
ping what the ministry called "some
of the heaviest caliber bombs yet
carried into Germany"
Explosives were loosed by the I'm.
counted ton, fire bombs by the
thousands, and every section of the
great works was declared hit
workshops, machine shops and even
the plants administration buildings.
All this, said the ministry, was
done "under favorable weather con
ditions.'f
The assaulting forces sprang in
waves, it was added, and the sec
ond contingent of bombers to reach
the factory req aimed for a chain
of fires which already had been left
blazing by the pilots who had gone
before.
The plant section was straddled
by falling bombs from end to end,
the ministry reported, land within
a few moments The whole of the
factory area had become a mass of
raging flames engulfing the long
lines of buildings and lighting up
the sky with a glow which could
be seer from 60 miles away.
zone after the other in a long
procession the following sorties (of
bombers) came in to unload bombs
on the blazing target at one
period of the attack explosions
could be seer continuously occurring
for fully three-quarters of an hour"
A pilot remarked that he flew
over a fire which must have been
nearly a mile long and a quarter
mile wide"
The extraordinary duration of the
Krupp attack, and the great sue
cess claimed for it, overshadowed
the work of other British pilots who
followed familiar airlanes for new
assaults on old objectives-:
The German submarine base at
Lorient, France; a synthetic oil
reservoir at Cologne; blast furnaces
at Dusseldorf and Oberhausen ;
docks on the Dortmund-Ems canal,
an important inland German water
way; the Rhine port of Duisburg;
Nazi shipping in Dunkerque harbor
and a whole series of airdromes
scattered about Germany and Ger.
m~an-occupied territory.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-09
GERMANS ATTACK
BIG LONDON AREA
Several Persons Are Killed
As Bomb Hits Air
Raid Shelter

LONDON, Nov. 9.-R-Nazi
raiders intensively attacking a
wide area of London overnight
scored a direct hit on an air raid
precautions center killing several
persons but the assault slackened
after midnight with long intervals
of quiet.
Incomplete reports to the air
ministry said 20 German planes
were destroyed during the day, Is
of them by one hard-hitting Raj
squadron. In addition, six more
German planes were said prob
ably to have been destroyed and
two damaged.
Mist shrouded the Dover straits
as the raiders roared across to
Continued on Page Two, Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-09
Bishop Blake
breaches On
Place0fYouth
Says Richest Chapter In
Church. History Is In
Field OF Education
POINTS TO SCHOOLS
Holds Only Hope OF Abol-
ishing War Must Begin In
Hearts Of Young People

The North Carolina conference
of the Methodist church last night
observed the anniversary of the
board of Christian education and
heard a stirring address by Bishop
Edgar Blake of Coral Gables,
Fa., on the place of youth in the
field of Christian education.
One of the richest chapters in
the history of Methodism is the
chapter the church has written in
the field of education" declared
Bishop Blake, who reviewed the
beginning of educational move
ments among Methodists in the
United States.
Bishop Blake cited the fact that
the Methodist church now has in
it's care 1877 schools, colleges, and
universities, or one for every IS
months during its $50 year history.
"Methodists in the United States
have contributed three million a
year, on the average, for education
during the past $50 years. One Of
the great assets of Methodism to-
day is to be found in u church
schools, where about six million
are enrolled in, all age groups"
DR.. H. E. Spence presided, the
Rev. T. M. Grant gave the invoca-
ton. and the Rev. R. w. Bradley
spoke briefly on the detectives of
the program of the board of educa-
ton of the church and introduced
three staff members, Miss Alma
Cade, the Rev. Thomas M. Patter-
son, and Miss Mary Elizabeth
Myers.
Bishop Blake said the future Of
the church was absolutely depend
ent on the church school group and
studies of the period Of 1908 to
CONTINUED on Page Two, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-09
Credit Given
For National
Quotas By Counties Are
Listed By Governor Hoey
For The First Call
STATE TO SEND 1858
Ouestionnaires To Be Sent
To Registrars In The
County Regardless

New Hanover county will not be
called on to furnish any men IN
the army drafts first call under
the quotas released by Governor
Hoey last night, according to an
Associated Press dispatch from
Raleigh.
Wilmington and New Hanover
county were exempt from the first
draft due to the large number of
army enlistments since last Janu-
ary l and the exceptionally large
number of National Guardsmen
who were called into service from
this county.
Governor Hoey in announcing
the quota for North Carolina as
serted that 1858 Tar Heels will
be called to the army colors by
June 80, 1941.
Under the Selective ServiC5 Act
North Carolina was ordered to
supply 9,434 men, but this figure
was whitfield down to 1858 be-
cause the state received credit for
men who had enlisted since Janu-
airy l and for guardmen on duty.
The Governors figures shovel
that enlistments total 29,032. There
are 4,7S9 guardsmen now in serv-
ice. The guardsmea aid enlisted
men we're credited, wherever pos
sible, to the counties OF draft
board areas in which they resided.
Two other counties - Haywood
and Hoke-will not be called on to
furnish any men in the first draft.
Draft board area No. 3 in Robe
son county will not furnish any
men, since a National Guard unit
has been stationed in that
Two other board areas in Robson,
however, have been assigned QUO
tas, the Governor said.
Governor Hoey also pointed out
that the War department will deter
mine the w%hite-negro division in the
draft quotas and hat the quotas car.
ried in the first release are for total
men and is not divided as to races.
Local draft board officials said last
night that they had expected to be
exempt from furnishing any men in
the first draft call, due to the large
number Of enlistments and guards
men in service from this area.
There are approximately 500
guardsmen from Wilmington and
New Hanover county now in active
service.
Officials said that the enlistments
CONTINUED on Page Two, Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-09
ITALIANS ATTACK
EGYPTIAN OASIS
No Troop Advances Or
Two Main Fronts In
Greece Announced

ROME, Nov. Notwithstanding
low over the palm tops of a green
haven in the sand wastes. Italian
planes made a night attack on one
OF Britain's chief bases in Egypt
at the Oasis of silva, the high COM
mand reported today.
Though rocked by heavy anti
aircraft bursts, big tri-motored
bombers, protected by fighting
ships, scattered explosives and
shrapnel shells on British shelters,
supply dumps and motor \equip-
ment under the palms, and ma
chine-gunned troop encampments,
the communique said.
The attack on the desert base,
near the Libyan-Egyptian border
and about ITS miles south of the
Italian s%pearhead into Egypt at
Sid Barrani, was the only specific
exploit claimed for the day by the
Italians in their two land cam
paigns.
mont;nued on Page Two, Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-09
NAzI BLOCKADE
WORRIES BRITAIN
But Nation Claims To Have
AS Much Merchant Ship
ping Space As Ever
BY The Associated Press

LONDON, Nov. 8.-Britain claims
to have almost as much merchant
shipping space as she had when the
war began, despite Germ1n air, u
face and submarine raiders, but Ct
ficials acknowledged today their con
Germ over the destruction wrought
and threatened by Germany's coun'
ter-blockade.
The British admit the loss by sub.
marine action of 3,547,00 tons of
their own, allied and neutral shipping
in the IA months of the war Gas
against the German claim of 1852
200 tons destroyed by all sorts Of
action).
This loss, they insist has been al
most replaced by new construction
and c%hartering of nor-British ship:
Continued OH Page Two, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-09
(By The Associated Press)

BERLIN, Nov. San entire Brit
ish merchant convoy of from IS to
20 ships totaling $4,000 tons has
been destroyed in the very middle
of Britain's vital North Atlantic
lifeline by German furface warsh1ps'
according to today's Nazi claims.
This success in the air n sea
counter-blockade of Britain appar-
emily came three days ago, but the
heightening tempo of the campaign
was reflected in the report OF an
informed source that today Stuka
dive bombers blasted $1,000 tons OF
shipping to the bottom out of strong
ly protected conveys and damaged
$4,000 tons.