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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-04-08
Newspapers Are To Push
Nations Big War Loan Drive

Washington The nations
newspapers are coming to you
for $13,OOO,OOO,OOO more-for I'M
Gle Sam.
It's the second war loan drive,
due to begin Monday, April IL.
Newspapers have been. assigned
a leading part in conducting it.
The government calls it the big
gest war financing operation in
history,
It's initial stages will last about
three weeks, and it is designed to
sell the American public $13,0O0,-
100000 worth of war bonds.
Divide that figure by the num-
Der of people in the United States,
and you arrive at the conclusion
that-on the average-about $500
worth of bonds will have to be
sold for every man, woman and
child in the country if the goal is
met.
Secretary Morgenthau and
Frank E. Trip, president of the
Allied Newspaper Council, said in
a communication to all newspa-
pers:
''The people of your community
look first to the newspapers fol
leadership when united action is
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-04-08
Bic War Loan Drive
To Open On April IL;
WarMust BeFinanced
13 Billion Dollars Must Be
Raised; Ashe Has Big
Quota For Month

Ashe county will join the rest
of the nation in the big War Loan
Drive, which opens April II when
the government is asking for Is
billion extra dollars in war
bonds in order to carry on the
war effort.
Some special programs are
planned for the schools, the A
merican Legion, the Rotary club.
the Woman's Club and other Or
CARNATIONS, as all service clubs
are expected to give full coopera-
ton.
J. B. Hash, county War Bond
Chairman, said that every effort
would be made to reach the
county's quota which is set at
S110,5OO. for the month of April
Mrs. P. G.. Wright, county
chairman of the Women's Divi-
sion, said that special displays
would be used by merchants as
we'll as other advertising materi-
al to boost the sale of bonds dur
ing this month.
Mrs. Gorda Boney, county vice
chairman of the women's division
will present the plan and purpose
of the drive to all of her organi-
cations throughout the county, as
will County Agent Roy H. Grouse
Mrs. Ed M. Anderson, chairman
of district three, of the women's
organization for the sale of bonds
stressed the fact that all parents
who plan this month, buy grad
uating presents for their sons and
daughters, should make this
present a bond or stamps. It has
also been suggested that gradua-
ting classes wishing to leave q
present to their Alma Mata, leave
bond instead of some other gift
The big drive, which opens
April II, will continue through
out the month or around three
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cal disability units them for mill
tary service or work other than
the kind in which they are now
engaged, however, will be eX-
empted from strict application Of
the order, it was said.
A hint of a change in the status
Of the average group had been
given last month when draft
boards were instructed to reclass-
ify all All men according to oc-
cupation and dependency. Boards
were ordered to reclassify those
engaged in agricultural occupa-
tons first and all others begin
ming May l.
These and other Developments
have led to widespread belief that
the top draft age may be put back
at A, where it stood last year
until President Roosevelt lowered
it in his executive order stopping
voluntary enlistments in the arm:
ed forces. Today's order provides
that men 38 through A who con-
tinue in nondeferrable jobs will
be drafted like younger men.
The announcement specifically
said that the services will be ask
ed to issue waivers whereby non
Continued on Page A
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School Boards
Are Named By
Group Monday
New Board OF Education
Names District And LO-
cal School Committees

There were few changes in the
district and local school commit
teemen named by the new board
of Education at their first meet
ing on Monday.
Those named were as follows:
District No. 1-Jefferson-Roy
Badger, Emmett Stanley, Tom
Duncan and Ira T. Johnston; ORR
on-Fred Coward, E. M. Jenkins
and Lee Lambert; Wagner -
George Bowers, Bill Bledsoe and
Hammy Bare; Glendale Springs
Don Bare, Delmar Rose and Eve
rett Lyles; Big Ridge - Walter
harrington and Fred Bare; Buff
falo-Arthur Kemp, Sidney Kill
lans and Jim Rash.
District No. 2-Riverview-J. E
Roland, Todd Price and G. D.
Wilson; Rich Hill-E. w. Sapp;
Mill Creek-Wa1ter Roland; Rash
F. S. Owens; Roaring Fork -
Arthur Oliver; Ashland-Charlie
Johnson; Parker-M. S. Woodland
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Frank Jones To F.
Be Buried Today
Well Known Ashe County
Man Dies After Long
Illness

Frank Jones, we'll known Ashe
county man, died at the Ashe
Hospital on Tuesday, at the age
of 60 years. Mr.. Jones, prominent
farmer from the Warrensville
section of the county, was ma
tive of Allegheny, but had lived
in Ashe for some years.
The funeral service will be
held this afternoon at the Phoe-
nix Baptist church with the Rev.
Mr.. Denney in charge. =.
The deceased is survived by
his wife and daughter, Miss Kath-
leen Jones, and the following
brothers and sisters: John A.
Jones, California; w. M. Jones,
Herndon, w. Va; w. C. Jones,
Taylorsville; c. E. Jones, Furches;
Mayor F. B. Jones, West Jeffer-
son; Mrs. Wiley Ford and Mrs.
w. w. Dixon, SilaS Creek; Mrs. B.
F. Wagner, Sparta; and Mrs.
Vester Hudler, Warrensville.
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Easter Styles
Are Shown Here

Local merchants featuring
ready-to- wear and dry goods
have a good selection of spring
and Easter merchandise now
ON display ready for the parade
of shoppers.
Because of the lateness of
Easter which comes on April
Is, milady is expected to have
favorable warm weather to
wear all the finery she might
purchase. In addition to smart
frOcks with coats, suits are an
important style trend this year
and many of them are being
shown here.
Several merchants are fea-
turing a wide variety Of Easter
mechandise in their advertise
ments in this paper today,
showing they are ready for
Easter. The public is urged to
patronize hometown mer-
chants.
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needed and this loan can only
succeed through such action.
Speaking for the Treasury and
the Allied Newspaper Council,
we ask you, therefore, to give
this drive your enthusiastic sup
port in your news and editorial
column and by enlisting sponsor
ed advertising support"
The Treasury is floating the
second war loan to:
Finance the war.
2-Help avoid initiation.
To meet the $13,000,000,000
goal, the Treasury says you can
help if you:
1-Divert into the purchase of
extra bonds every cent not alb
solutely needed for food, shelter
and other necessities of life for
the three weeks beginning April
IL.
BUY at least one extra bond
each week for that period.
3-Forego some of the things
you have been planning to buy.
4Buy bonds beyond those you
may be buying through pay roll
savings or regular bond purchas-
es.
Continued On Page 81
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Hurt Is Chosen
Supt. OF Schools;
Succeeds Hash
Newly Appointed Board Of
Education Met Monday
In First Session

After taking the oath of office,
Monday morning, the newly ap-
pointed Ashe county board of
education met, named V. c. Lii
lard, chairman and after long
consideration, named A. B. Hurt
as county superintendent to re-
place J. B. Hash, who has served
in this capacity for ten years.
District committeeman and
school committees were also nam
ed for the various schools of the
county with few changes from
last year.
Interest ran high in the cleo
ton of the county superintendent,
which occupied most of the day
before the board could reach an
agreement. In addition to Mr..
Hash and Mr.. Hurt, other appli-
cants included B. H. Duncan,
Raymond Francis and c. M. Dick
son.
The newly elected superinten-
dent, who will begin his term of
office on July l, has made an
outstanding record in school
work. He has served as princi-
pal of the Nathan's Creek high
school for the past several years
and has been largely responsible
for its growth and development.
Mr.. Hurt holds a M. A. Degree
from the University of North
Carolina and has the distinction
of being the only principal in the
county with a Master Principals
certificate.
In addition to his work in the
county, Mr.. Hurt has served as
superintendent of the schools of
Christiansburg, Va, for two
years. During the summer of
1886, he worked in the depart
ment of education of the state of
Virginia, at Richmond, and was
chosen among ten others to. re-
write the course of study for the
schools of Virginia.
At Nathan's Creek, Mr.. Hurt
operates the only standard ele-
mentary school in the county.
This school also has the distinc-
ton of being the only standard
elementary school in any of the
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King To Speak
To Rotary Club


DR.. R. R. King, District Health
Officer, will speak to the Rotary
Club tonight, when P. C. Wright
will have charge of the program.
Roy Badger was in charge of
an interesting program last week
when County Agent Roy Grouse
showed an agricultural picture
entitled, Green Pastures.
The Rotary Club has a special
committee to help in the Nation
al War Bond Drive this month.
Dean Mcmillan, chairman of this
committee. has offered a prize to
the Rotarian buying and selling
the most bopds:S'"
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Ashe County Surpasses Red Cross War Fund Quota
1888 Reported
Yesterday; More .
Gifts Being Made
All Workers And Contributors
!, Who Have Not Reported
'|s Asked To Do So

Ashe county's Red Cross War
Fund quota Of $4,000 has been
reached and slightly surpassed as
some donations continue to come
in. Officials of the drive an
nounced yesterday that $4,388.50
had been reported so far.
The quota was reached on Mon
day night, the time set for Off
cially bringing the drive to a
close. = Sharpe S. Shoemaker,
drive chairman, said that other
contributions would gladly be re-
ceived yet, and urged those who
had not done so to send in their
gifts. All workers who have not
already done so. are also urged
to turn in their funds at once.
Mr.. Shoemaker said that on be-
half of the Red Cross and the
men in Service, he wanted to
thank everyone who had helped
to make the drive a success. This
is real service to our county and
our men in the armed forces" he
declared.
The drive was brought to a
dramatic close on Monday night.
following the Red Cross Sunday
observed in the churches, when
special program was held at the
Parkway theatre. Here, James
Hare made a plea which result
ed in collections which raised the
remainder of the amount needed
for the quota. Members of the
drive committee said they wished
to extend special thanks to Rus
sell Barr for his cooperation in
having this program.
Some of the recent contributors
are published today and others
will be announced next week.
M. D. Hart, Mrs. M. D. Hart,
R. D. Sheets. w. w. Hart, Claudy
Ham, Willie Ham, Minnie Hart,
Mr. and Mrs. Billie Little, Roy
Philips, d. c. Miller, all 100
each.
Wiley Burgess, 800; T. A. john
son, L. F. Miller, Oscar Mcneil,
Othello School, Mrs. Woodrow
Burgess, Mrs. Ollie Burgess, Mrs.
Wiley Burgess, all 100 each.
Continued on Page -
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Americans, British
Make Gains; Heavy
Bombings In France
Russians Continue To Hold
Own Against Germans;
Jap Base Is Bombed

The Allies continued on the Of
fensive on all fronts this week
with advances being made both
in Africa and Russia and heavy
attacks from the air on both the
Nazis and the japanese.
The British eighth army re-
sumed its offensive up the Tuni-
sian east coast yesterday, and
captured all its initial detectives
while American troops, closing
a trap from the west, drove for
ward five miles in the Ell Guettar
sector where the Afrika korps
was reported retreating.
The Americans advanced in the
area east of Ell Guettar without
meeting opposition and are now
moving directly eastward toward
the Wadi Akarit, threatening to
trap the enemy forces farther
south in the Gabes road area I'M
less they completed their with
drawal quickly.
Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery,
commander of the eight army,
sent his men into action to storm
the gorgelike wadi, on which
Rommel made his stand, only
after waiting for days with amaz-
ing patience while he amassed
material and disposed his men.
Red army troops held off re-
peated attacks by German tanks
and motorized shock troops at
two key points of the Donets riv-
err front Tuesday and fought their
way with bayonet into a strongly
defended enemy village in the
Kuban bridgehead fortified belt,
Russia's Tuesday midnight com
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Ration Board Is
OutOf ''T'' Books

It was announced today that
the local OPA office is temporari-
ly out of ''T"' ration books.
Persons who did not receive
their 'T"' books last week will
have to wait until additional
supplies of these books are re-
ceived.
It was also announced by the
local board that ceiling prices on
rayon hose would become effec-
tive soon.
Ralph Campbell, clerk of the
OPA, said that retailers should
be warned. that sale of meat
without surrender or red stamps
is fragrant violation of regula-
lation, subject to prosecution. Re
tailers so violating regulations, to
be cut off from their supply, il
was explained.
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Y. C. Jrs. Raise
Red Cross Funds

The Junior class at Virginia
Carolina sponsored by Miss Ger
trude GRAPHICAL, made an extern
sive drive for the Red Cross fund.
This class of twenty-three gave
willingly and worked diligently,
Miss GRAPHICAL said.
Their program, made possible
with the help of three seniors,
Jean Hoke, Willie Jean GRAPHICAL
and Jimmie Wood, was quite a
success. The Baptist church was
filled with people. Many of them
saw through tear brimmed eyes,
the play For God and Country,
written and directed by Miss
GRAPHICAL.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-04-08
Post To Issue
School Edition

The Skyland Post is now
completing plans for the an
nual commencement edition of
the paper devoted to the
graduates of the nine high
schools of the county and the
school activities.
The edition will be of spec
ial interest this year as it will
not only carry data about the
graduates and faculty but will
give a summary of the war
time activities and work of the
various schools, pictures and
other information of interest
to- both the parents and stu
dents.
According to present plans,
the issue will be published
April % and will have several
hundred extra circulation In
addition to the regular diStrib-
ution.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-04-08
DIR. ID. C.. Jones
Returns Home

DR.. Dean Jones, who under
went an operation in Charlotte,
some time ago, is making rapid
strides toward recovery and re-
turned here this week.
He and Mrs. Jones went on to
Chilhowie, Virginia, where he
will recuperate for about a month
and then hopes to resume his
work as superintendent and resi-
dent physician in the Ashe hospi-
tai.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-04-08
COMMISSIONERS RAISE
COUNTY JAIL FEE

The Ashe county commission
ers met on Monday for the regu-
lar April meeting and transacted
a number of routine matters.
Because of the rising cost of
food, the Jail fee was raised from
go cents to IS cents per day.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-04-08
LODGE TO MEET

The regular meeting of the
Ashe Lodge No. 671 AT & AM,
will meet on April Is. Members
are specially requested by w. B.
Austin, secretary, to attend.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-04-08

Washington The nations this loan only
newspapers coming through such action
$13O000O000 I'm Speaking Treasury and
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24

An iron monger is a hardware
iealer.
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WILMINGTON NAVY
RECRUITING unit
LEADS THE STATE
PERCENTAGE IS HIGH
Only Raleigh Office Ex-
ceeds Total Number OF
Men Enlisted

eastern North Carolina con-
tinues to show the finest spirit OF
patriotism in the state" Lieut.
Commander Charles B. Nicely, head
of the Navy's recruiting program
for North Carolina, in revealing
that the Wilmington recruiting sta
ton was second only to Raleigh in
the number of volunteers. &
The Raleigh district, he pointed
out, embraces twice as much ter
ritory.
All of the 102 youths who have
volunteered for --avy service thus
far in August have been sent to
Petty Officer Candidate schools.
At these schools, volunteers are
qualified for ratings in SIS differ
ent fields ranging from radio ava
ton to plumbing.
A limited number Of openings
are still available for 17-year olds
in the Navy's Petty Officer schools
All boys interested are urged to
visit the Wilmington Recruiting
station or meet one Of the follow
ing recruiters:
R. L. DeLoach, Mondays, White
vile; Tuesday morning, Chad
bourn; Tuesday afternoon, Fair
Bluff; Wednesday morning, Fair
mont; Wednesday afternoon, Row
land; Thursday, Laurinburg;. Fri
days, Lumberton; Saturday morn
ing, St. Pauls.
J. A. Helms-Mondays, BurgaW
courthouse; Tuesdays, Wallace;
Wednesday morning Benlahville
Wednesday afternoon, Kenans'
vile; Thursday, Warsaw City hall,
Friday, Clinton.
The following boys were enlist
ed through Wilmington station
during the past several days:
Donald B. Stegall, Wilmington;
John B. Callum, Wilmington;
Theodore A. Webb, Wilmington
John w. Blue, Wilmington; Johnny
M. Faran. Clinton; Alton T. Tew
Jr., Rosehill; John W. Marrard
Rosehill; John T. Mathis, Clinton;
Almond Ezzell, Magnolia; William
R. Stone, Bolivia Boyce R. Carter
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24

Burgaw; Lewis W. Costin, Leland;
Reese A. Smith, Leland; James
A. Henderson, Teachey; Franklin
L. Knowles, Rosehill; Edgar R.
Maready, Chinuapin; Samuel T.
Tharp, Jr., Garland; Andrew D.
Woodcock, Atkinson; Norman R.
Gore, Longwood; Roy v. West,
Marble; Thomas G. Schipper,
Carolina Beach; Carlayne Jones,
Wilmington Victor M. Farrow, Will
mington.
Fred M. Williamson, Wilmington;
Jack C. Bissette, Wilmington;
Robert E. Seigler, Wilmington;
Hubert NJ. Hinson, Wilmington;
Clyde H. Gentry, Jr., Wilmington;
James c. Gideon, Wilmington; Har-
vey Flynn, Wilmington; Calvin
Davenport, Rocky Mount; Richard
S. Walton, Wilmington; George C..
Fields, Jr., Wilmington; Harvin
w. Evans, Wilmington; David G.
James, Wilmington.
Milton M. Hardee, Wilmington;
John R. Mclean, Wilmington
Henry E. johnson, Wilmington;
Kenneth E. Holder, Wilmington;
Murray B. Townsend, Wilmington; :.
John E. Rocks, Clarendon; Harry
L. Long, Wilmington; James F.
Maultsby Bolton; William Conner,
Orrum; Robert F. Thompson,
Whitevi11e; William L. Pierce,
Hallsboro; John c. Williamson,
Wananish; James H. Turner,
Cerro Gordo; Watts Jones, Penn
broke Davis R. Goodwin, Serro
Gordo Leo c. Jarrel, Wilmington;
James H. McCarter, Wilmington;
Donald H. Bryan, Lumberton;
Carol Simmons, Clarendon; Pete
Clark, Pembroke; Repete Clark,
Pembroke; Leo Mercer, Chad
bourn; Whest A. Thompson, Jr.,
Whiteville; Howard L. Warner,
Whiteville; Fred L. Gore, Jr..
Whiteville; Hugh q Blackmon,
Whiteville; Charles V. Blackburn,
Clarendon; E. v. Black, Hallsboro;
David Cromartie, Lumberton; Eu-
gene Wade, Jr., Lumberton; Bobby
V. Lamb, Lumberton; Sidney G..
Perry, E. Laurinburg; Charlie R..
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heavily laden, for Sebastopol.
For seven months, this Black
Sea port, last Soviet stronghold
in the Crimea, had been under
siege. The Germans had tried to
storm the citadel the previous No
vember. They lost ten thousand
men, and failed. They had tried
to bring the city to its knees in
December. They lost thirty-five
thousand men, and failed. They
launched their final offensive June
S. Farther north, another German
offensive was announced June 10
to have started on the Kharkov
front. In this hard-trampled arena
the battle dwindled again to brief
skirmishes. The drama of Sebas-
topol went it's appointed course.
Copyright 1943 by Henry C.
Cassidy; Houston, Mifflin Co.,
distributed by AP Features.
END Chapter 20)
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1vey, Fairmont; William M. Strick-
land, Rowland; James c. North,
Fairmont; Albert @. Smith, Mag
nolia.
Clarence E. Newsome, Jr., Will
mington; Clarence J. James, Will
mington; James A. Lockamy, vii
mington; Robert o. Kayse, VIII
mington; Edward w. Watkins, Jr.,
Wilmington; Charles P. Hardlson,
Wilmington James A. Babson,
Ash; Willie E. Jones, Laurel Hill;
Claudies Harden, Orrum; Horace
Id. Davis. Fiarmont; Paul H. King,
Jr.. Clinton; Calvin c. Rope, Clin-
ton: James A. Smith, Clinton;
James Lockhart, Augusta, Ga.
Jimmy L. Wood, Richlands; Ed
gar R. Malpass, Jr., Currie; Lewis
S. Babson, Jr., Chadbourn; Lee r.
Watts, Whiteville; John D. Soles.
Whiteville; Edgar L. Fuller, Lum-
berton; Henry C. Green, White
Vile: James H. Mclean, Jr.,
Lumberton; Carl W. Ward, Chad
bourn John Sellars, Wilmington;
Edmund B. York, Wilmington;
Edmund B. York, Wilmington;
Ernest Walker, Wilmington; Joseph
W. Robinson, Chadbourn; Luther
c. Beasley, Burgaw; Harold B.
Carter, Wilmington; George G..
Calhoun, Wilmington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
LIQUOR CHARGES
OCCUPY RECORDER
Many Violations Come Up
For Hearing In Mon
days Session

Violations Of the liquor laws
made UP a sizeable percentage of
the docket in recorders court here
Monday and, in the chief case,
Recorder H. Winfield Smith de-
ferred passing judgement on Ken
meth D. Gray of Carolina Beach,
charged with possessing large
amount of non-tax paid whiskey,
until Thursday.
Gray, who was arrested by ABC
Officers E. S. Bland and Jesse
Matthias, allegedly had "a quarts,
81 pints and % half pints of bond
ed whiskey bearing South Carolina
tax stamps. The raiding officers,
including Carolina Beach police,
also seized Gray's car.
Bland said that Gray's accounts
showed that he had. collected 81.
739 IS from sales of the South Caro-
lina-purchased spirits since July 6.
Judgment is the case of En-
pie jackson, Negro 1116 Loves Al
ley, charged with violation of the
liquor law, has been continued to
August 26.
The cases Of Maggie Davis and
Naomi Davis, Negresses, 80l
Campbell street; Johnnie John
son, Negro; Jim Wilson, Negro,
500 Eighth street; and Preston
Maultsby, Negro, 1920 North Sixth
street, were continued until August
81 in Recorders Court.
Each of the Negroes except
Johnnie Johnson, was charged
with possession of non-tax paid
whiskey and was arrested over the
weekend by ABC officers, B. W.
White, M. F. Cooke, E. S. Bland
and Jesse Matthias, assisted by
city policemen.
johnson was arrested on the
charge of hindering an officer in
the fulfillment of his duty.
Maggie Davis and Naomi Davis,
were apprehended for allegedly
holding nearly a quart of the il
legal whiskey, and Jim Wilson was
arrested for allegedly possessing
less than a pint of non-tax paid
Whiskey.
Maultsby was said to have had
in his possession a quart of the
non-tax paid alcohol.
AL five were released under
bond of $3.50 pending their appear.
ance in Recorders Court.
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TREASURY HOLDINGS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-tB-
Holdings of Treasury bills increas-
ed $18,000,000 during tie week
ending August 18, the Federal Re-
serve Board reported today in its
weekly statement on the condition
of member banks in 101 leading
cities.