THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872
POKER GAME ENDS
IN NEAR-TRAGEDY
"JtMMIE" SMITH STABS HIS
j BROTHER LINDSAY AND,
THEN SKIPS LINDSAY IN j
HOSPITAL
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Lindsay Smith is in a Winston-
Salem hospital from the effects of
stabs by his brother "Jimmie"'.
After the fight "Jimmie" fled.
Lindsay walked nearly a mile, 1
$ bleeding profusely, to the Nelson 1
Funeral Home to be carried in an
ambulance to the hospital.
The Smith brothers live in sep
arate homes close together on the
hill between Buck Island bridge
and Piney Grove Church. They
sometimes engage in a poker
game and it is reported they were
awakened some time in the night
by a visiting friend who wanted
to play.
Soon a party was formed and
the game went on all night. Pos
sibly there were drinks along.
I Early the following morning
"Jimmie" and Lindsay begin dis-
puting over some features of the
contest with the result that "Jim-
mie" made a slash 10 inches long
in Lindsay's side and another 3
dimension in his shoulder.
The last reports received from
Lindsay stated he was in a very
serious condition.
The offiicers have not been able
to locate "Jimmie."
Lightning Kills Woman
And Burns House Near
Sandy Ridge
During an electrical storm last,
week a colored woman by the
name of Ziglar was killed by
lightning which set fire to her
home. The house was destroyed
but the body of the woman was
removed before it was consumed.
The deceased lived near the
rock quarry, and was employed
by the neighborhood generally as
a washerwoman.
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Walter Wood Seriously
Injured In Car Crash
I
. Walter Wood of the Hartman
section was carried to a Winston-
Salem hospital Monday suffering
with possibly serious injuries re
ceived when his car turned over
near Priddy's store. One ear was
practically torn off, while he, suf
fered chest contusions.
Ridir.g with Wood was Harley
East, a man of great strength,
who held the car up from Wood's
chest until help came.
Tonsil Clinic At
The local health authorities an
nounce that a tonsil clinic will be
V held at Walnut Cove May 19 and
20. No child over 14 is admitted.
Parents are ' instructed to. ta k e
their children to the family phy
sician for examination some time
before the date of the clinic.
Volume 72
RITES HELD FOR
DICK RIERSON, 88
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KING TAKES BALL GAME—
! OTH,i.tt NEWS ITEMS (ROM
KiNU AND COMMUNITY
Say! Buy War Bonds, will
you?
King, May 6. —Funeral services
for Dick Rierson, aged 88, were
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conducted at Mount Zion Church
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Wednesday afternoon and inter
ment was in the Church ceme
i
tery. Several children and a
number of grandchildren and
}
great-grandchildren survive.
Fred E. Shore, while oiling a
wasaing machine at his home 011
Main street last week, got his
hand caught in the wringer and
severely mashed.
The King High defeated 01'.
Richmond school in a game ot"
bi.seball Wednesday. Final score
I was 7 to 3. The game was play
ed on the King diamond.
Dr. Grady E. stone, who has
been confined to his home on
west Main street for several days
by illness, is able to be back in
his office again.
Robert Smith of High Point
spent the week-end with relatives
here.
Addison Hooker is undergoing
treatment in a Wnjston-Salem
hospital for hemorrhage of the
nose.
Sidney Loggins has returned
from an extended trip to Rich
mond, Va.
Joe Hooker of the U. 5. Navy,
jhere on furlough.
| stationed at Bainbridge, ML, is
The stork only made two calls
;last week. They were: to Mr.
land Mrs. Charlie Southern, a son
and to Mr. and Mrs. Charlie
Hampton, a daughter,
j Robe Hooker, who has been
taking treatment in the Vet
| eran's Hospital at Johnson City,
Tenn., has returned to his home
here.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Hutchins
of Winston-Salem were among
the visitors here Saturday. They
formerly resided here.
Naval Ensign Norman Boyles,
, who is stationed in Rhode Island,
is spending a furlough with his
| father, Ollie Boyles, in Pilot
I View.
Improvement is noted in tha
condition of Mrs. L. K. Pulliam,
I
; who has been quite sick at her
home on west Main street.
Sergeant Grady Hooker, who
is stationed at Fort Jackson, S.
C., is spending a furlough with
his parents near Five Forks,
j And that's the news from here.
j The old folks tell us the leaves
are supposed lo be grown always
by the 10th of May. If the leaves
can treble their present speed,
they may come in. It's hard to
work in snow and frost and a
Mew wind.
Danbury, N. C., Thursday May 6, 194,3. *
EDITORIALS
INTOLERABLE SITUATION
The most execrable figure in the nation since
the days of Benedict Arnold, is John L. Lewis.
In this beautiful and powerful land now bathed;
in tears, how repulsive that on the horizon of our I
hopes and fears, should loom the loathed'
shape of a man who has more power than the,
President of the United States, and whose ambi- !
tion and malice would hold up the war effort and
endanger the safety of the people to gratify his j
own personal malice and satisfy his overween
ing ambition.
In England cr Russia, or any self-respecting
country of the earth, fighting for its life, Lewis
would face a firing squad.
! What a consuming pity that America, fighting
: tor its life, is not a self-respecting country.
One wonders where is the spirit of America
that burned in the breasts of George
*.on, Andrew Jackson, Patrick Henry, Grover
Cleveland and Theodore Hoosc-velt.
If the congress is without guts or patriotism,
let them come home and raise chickens and pigs.
The red-blooded South is speaking from Flor
ida and other States—let this man be reached by
the law and punished. Let us have an end of
milk and cider.
See the sinister silhouette of this detestable ex
crescence, this carbuncle, this cyst, this intoler
able thing that would impede our way in the
fight for our liberty and our homes.
And see the supineness with which congress
beholds him in his arrogance, his brutal greed,
his seizure of oower, his contempt of law.
In Australia where American boys are quar
tered, in Guadalcanal's fox holes, in China,
American boys are fighting, dying: There is a
call for more planes to meet the steadily grow
ing menace from Tokyo. In America with its
broken homes, men, women and children are
buying bonds, and making unprecedented sacri
fices.
And the Boss of 500,000 miners gives the word
'o stop working until "my demand for more pay"
is granted.
He tears the telegram the President sends him
pleading that the coal may continue to come. If
it does not come, the work will stop. The miners
lay down their tools and quit, obeying the Master.
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed that
he is grown so great?
America will never win the war for our free
dom until real laws are passed against sabotage,
sedition and treason.
Until our Quislings and our Lavals, our Lew
ises and our Wheelers and Nyes, are given short
shrift.
And until the contempt of the people frowns on
their apologists such as Westbrook Pegler, Dor
othy Thompson, David Lawrence and the Hearst
sheets. n
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AMERICA IS THERE
Seems like most of the fighting going on now
in North Africa is being done by the boys of the
United States.
Latest today is that the Americans arl smash
ing through to Bizerte, the great Axis base and
the last stopping place for Rommel's men until
they reach Tunis.
And the air boys are steadily pulverizing: the
two Axis bases.
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Published Thursdays
Delinquent Registrant
Is Reported To
District Attorney
The following report has been
sent Carlisle Higgins, U. S. Dis
trict Attorney by the Stokes Lo
cal Board:
"To Carlisle Higgins:
"This Lcoal Board reports to
you that Odell Frank Bowles of
King, Stokes county, is believed
to have violated the Selective
Training and Service Act of 1940
or the rules and regulations
thereunder in that he has failed
• to notify this oflice of his change
in address. His place of resi-
I
j dence is at it is yiven above. I It
has had five different addresses
in Washington, D. C. They ari
as follows: 320»i Volta Plaiv;
1 1ON M. St., X. \V„ care B.
Boles; 1-104 Wisconsin Ave.; 152: i
Pennsylvania Avenue, \\ W ;
231~> X. W. (Registrant lias nev
er been contacted al any .it thrs-.
addresses. Mail has been letuin
ed to this olliee by postmaster
marked 'unclaimed' or 'unknown.'
"Xotiee of delinquency was
j sent to him on February 3, 1943.
"A description of the delinquent
follows: age 23; date of birth
March 2, 1C20; place of birth
King, Stokes county; race, white;
height, 5 feet, 9 inches; weight,
130 pounds; hair brown; eyes,
blue; complexion, ruddy.
"The person who will always
know the delinquent's address is
Nathaniel Bowles (father i. gen
eral delivery. King, N. C. This
; person has been contacted by let
ter on April 7, 1943 by the Stokea
County Local Board Xo. 1 who
is a member of the Local Board,
with the following result: En
velope was returned to this of
fice marked: 'whereabouts un
known'. This was addressed to
Natheniel Bowles (or Boles), gen
eral delivery. King, N. C.
"The delinquent's employer is
Kirkman Bros., Kernersville, X.
C.
"The following additional ef
forts have been made by Stokes
County Local Board Xo. 1, Dan
bury, N. C„ telephone number
259, to find the delinquent with
the following result: contacted
Bristol Dellinger, State Highway
Patrolman. He contacted several
people in regard to this case and
it was their belief that the regis,
trant is staying around Walnut
Cove, X. C., and King, X. C., but
did not locate registrant or see
him in person.
"Additional information con
cerning this delinquent is not on
: file in the oflice of this Local
Board.
"RALPH R. MILLS.
"Member of Local Board."
Mrs. Folger Improving
Mrs. Folger, # wife of Congress
man John H. Folger, is recover
ing satisfactorily from a hip op
eration at a Boston hospital.
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SIGNAL CORPSMEN
ARE NOW AT
HANGING ROCK
GROUPS TO BK HfcKE IN
TRAINING OFF AND ON ALL
SUMMER
Forty-three students of the
, Skyland "Signal Corps School are
now in training at the Hanging
i Rock Park. They arrived Mon
, day. |
i These students are enlisted
s army reserves and are recruited
1 through the Signal Corps and tho
Civil Service. Their duties arc
maii'ieuvers to test antenna de«
signs for high frequency trans*
milting and receiving. All o£
their equipment i* portable in
«liuiin!. 1 the power unit.
Tl is was st.'il. ! last Oo
tube! 1.-.!, a year agti. '11..-\ havo
bei ii mi ,-iiuilai' maw tu\> is from
Winston-Salem.
Tin partieiilai I', who
- are i.nw ;.t the paik will finish
• their training on Saturday ant
■ will return to Winston-Salem and
i another group will arrive. There
>. will be a group hero off and on
i the entire summer, according to
I: Instructor T. W. Perkins..
'l Col. A. G. Connally of the U. 3.
; Army is visiting the camp for
t. this week. The instructors are T.
i. W. Perkins. D. D. Dutton, T. R.
Triplett. Principal of the school
I
s is Dale F. Keller.
3 The men in charge are highly
i- pleased with the Hanging Rock
■» Park location, remarking that
• they couTcl not have picked a bet
is ter place.
1 CHILI) KILLED BY
KICK OF A MULE
1 William Charles Hall, 4-month*
° old child of Mr. and Mrs. Carlos
I Hall, living on Danbury, Route 1,
near the old Jewell Place, was
s kicked in the head by a mule,
from the effects of which the lit
tle boy died on the way to a hos*
• pital.
s The child was being held by itsi
I mother who was sitting in the
r . stable door. As Mr. Hall was
II leading the mule by, the animal
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kicked the child squarely in the
J ( head.
il
i Surviving in addition to tho
J
parents are the grandparents Mr.
and Mrs. J. Wesley Hall and Mr.
and Mrs. Rufus Nelson.
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Interment was at North View,
Elders Kd Priddy and W. J.
Drown, of the Primitive Baptist
Church, in charge of the obse
quies.
Death of Frank Lynch
Frank Lynch died Monday in n
■ Morgantcn hospital and will be
I buried today at Brim's Grove
- Baptist Church cemetery. He is
- survived by hi s wife, Mrs. Laura
I Pell Lynch, and by one sister
Ezra Jessup.