THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872
CRIMINAL COURT i
CON vii N iiS JI J N 21
Capital Cast* State Vs. Mertou
Je.',suji Will Be the Main Ca:>e
On the Doe'.et—Jer>sup ?'o ise
Tried For llis Life Charged
With Killing of I)avc Smith,
Col.—Jury Drawn Saturday—
No Civil Court i'niil October
i
The Board of County Commis
sioners met in special session Sat
urday to direct the drawing of
the jury for the criminal court
which convenes Monday, June 21. i
Judge Allen Gwyn of Rocking-1
ham will preside at this term
whose main case for trial will b;>
State vs. Merton Jessup, merchant;
of Asbury, charged with the pre
meditated murder of Dave Smith,
col., on the evening of Saturday,
May 22. Jessup is in jail with- j
out bond. He has employed Fred
Folger and W. G. Petrce as his
attorneys.
This case may consume several
days in its trial. The rest of the
docket is small, consisting ot
minor infraction, principally li
quor troubles.
The jury which has been drawn
to serve for the term is as fol
lows:
Yadkin township—Troy Jones,
P. IjL Gordon, Ira O, Mickey, Rob
ert E. Gordon, Frank Rp.ins,
Jame.i E. Calloway, W. E. Dug
gins, J. R. Napier, C. F. Baker,
Ray Ingram.
Sauratown township S. W.
Smith, H. F. Rothrock, L, H.
Isom, John Martin.
Danbury township—Ed Priddy,
W. V. Woods, s. G. Priddy, Jones'
Oakley, J. H. Neal.
Peter's Creek township—J. N. |
Lackey, J. A. Robertson, Will
Stevens, J, Arthur Mabe, G. D.
Watkins, Thomas Gray.
Quaker Gap township X. R.
Nelson, W. L. Frye, Eugene Mar
shall, N. F. Pell.
Meadows township—J. Maxie '
Flynt, Arnold Tuttle, E. C. Dar
nell, S. C. Hampton, J. Sam Lew
is.
Snow Creek township J. W.
Oakley, S. A. O. Joyce, J. J. Mar
tin, Earl C. Handy.
Big Creek township Elmei
Dodson, J. M. Durham, Samuel P.
Dearnitri. - -
Beaver Island township—A. L.
Ward. r
Tom George Runs For
The State Senate
• . In Patrick County
y .
Hon. T. J, George of Stuart,
Va., has announced for the Vir
ginia State Senate, from the 13th
district composed of Patrick, Hen
ry and Pittsylvania counties.
Patrick has endorsed George 100
per cent. Convention at Martins
ville June 12.
Tom is a Stokes boy, as is well
known, a son of the late Rev. and
Mrs. R. W. George of Francisco,
Volume 72
STOKES CASUALTY
LIST NOW TWO
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O .jOti'.N
Vv. COLLL.\S Oi' O
l.i Aili ACCIDENT AT 11-.V.
CAMP
News ig received of the death 1
of Sergeant John VV. Colltru of |
Francisco, who was killed Tuea-,
day night in the crash of a plane
at Avon Park Bomb ! r.g ilange, j
Fla. Four other officers net
death in the same accident.
The death of Sergeant Collins
marks the second casua'ty for
i Stokes men in the war service to
date.
The first casualty wan that of
Lt. David R. Mitchell of King, ■
who lost his life in Chinn.
HELD PRISONER BY JAPS ,
! Private Jasper Davis, Jr., son
of Mrs. Z >ln Davis, Walnut Cove,
Route 2.
22 REGISTER AT
AT LOCAL BOARD
DURING MAY
The following is list of 18-year
old Stokes county boys registered
at the Stokes County Local Draft
Board for selective service during
the month of May:
Their order numbers precede
the names.
11880 —Preston David Browder,
Gffrmanton.
11890— Wiley Ray Collins, Vade
Mecum. « *
11891—Lonnie EdWard Jones,
King.
11S92—Robert McKinley Mit
jchell, Walnut Cove.
11893—Jesse Taylor Knight,
Sandy Ridge.
11894 —Howard Lee Thomas,
Sandy Ridge. v .
11895 Claude Olive Boles,
Pine Hall. •'!
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j 11896 —Chester Lindsay Stew
art, Germanton.
11897 lra Wilburn Tedder,
Germanton. ' J| ,
11898—Clarence Ray Boles,
King. f . •
11899 Curtis Junior Amos,
Sandy Ridge.
11900—Edwin Atha Sizemore,
Rural Hall. i * i*'
11901 —Hubert Simpson Maxcy,
Sandy Ridge.
11902 Harold Jones Joyce
11903—Elbert Andrew Watson,
King.
11S04—Joseph Ray Fulk, King.
11905 —William Atlee Tilley,
j Pinnacle.
11906 Claude Davis Yates,
Walnut Cove.
i 11907 Merl Thomas Cromer,
King
11908 —James Thomas George
Belew's Creek.
11909 Jameß Noel Collins,
Francisco,
i 11908-A—Paul Franklin Mabe,
, Lawsonville, 1 i i 1 1. !
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Danbury, N. C\, Thursday, June 1043.
LDITuRIAL o
•pATIf.NCi: IS EXHAUSTED
it is high time this intoleral . John L. Lewi.-
situation were t;'k« i by the throat.
The people of the country ai . disgusted and
humiliated at the apparent loss of power by tho
President and congress to end a situation Miic-h
threatens the lives of our boys the fronts.
The people want this Lewis behind the bars and
tried as a traitor. Then put every man engaged
in vital production in a military status. If a sol
dier refuses to tight when the enemy is at the
door, he becomes a deserter and a teubjeet for a
firing squad. If a worker engaged in war pro
duction refuses to work, let him be in the cat- j
egory of a deserter from the army, and suffer i
the consequences.
The soldier boy working for .SSO a month fights,
dies uncomplainingly. The worker receiving s6i
or $8 a day, because he is not paid 32.n0 a day
' more, lays down like a skulking hound and re
fuses to work.
Every town, village, county and city in the na- ,
'lion should send up to Washington a memoria
•of its amazement and indignation at the tragic
supineness which is retarding the war effort and :
endangering the Republic. i
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EXIT YAMAMOTO
In all the moving history coming out in the j
panorama of the terrible Pacific war, no one in-!
cident afforded the American people keener sat
isfaction than the news of the death of Yamamo
to.
The circumstances surrounding this wharf
rat's sudden demise are cloaked in Jap mystery.
But the news had to come out. He was the Jap
big shot, the acclaimed idol, and the commander -
in-chief of all the naval forces.
And so Tokyo explains he met his death glor
iously on the forefront of battle—somewhere
but where, and how?
Many shrewd United Nations observers and
commentators do not believe this Jap lie any
more than they believe any other Jap lie.
They believe the arrogant Jap admiral wh >
hated America .with such a consuming and
ceaseless hatred, did not die gloriously in the
forefront of battle. * 1 "
On the contrary they are convinced that he
whose stupendous conceit and ambition led him
to express his intention to destroy England and
America and then dictate a Jap peace in the
White House at Washington—died the death of
the rat he was.
They believe "Yam" was so disappointed and
disconcerted at the many crushing defeats his
forces had suffered in the South Pacific that he
couldn't bear to face the Tokyo rats to whom he
had boasted so much. And so resorted to hari
kari, that cowardly and disgusting rat way of
saving face while losing the intestines.
We know you have seen Yamamoto's picture.
Time magazine prints the best one. If ever a
(face showed the lineaments of a human devil,
Yamamoto's had it. In the lines of his counten
ance you may easily delineate the cruelty, the
ferocity and the treachery of the beast. In his
eys gleams his unspeakable hate and ruthless
ness.
In hell this tarantula may have sufficient tiine
if not inclination to revise his opinions of
American power and the valor and vengeance of
its outraged soldiers, and to rue the days that he
planned the Pearl Harbor treachery and the
cold-blooded murder of the boys who bombed
Tokyo. , ,
Published Thursdays
Katioriing
Wit OTHER WAili iMi. Ui Li>
AMi s. .TON-.
i.L'a; .STAMPS • 1 .1
.: :Z-.V. and cert tin d !.} • > i
ds;: Blue stamps H, J . -
~'joJ through J.:». » 1 »»"-*•
• ;iij/s K, L, M are unt:l
July 7.
COFFEE— Stamp No. 24 in
War Ration Book One, good for
one pound of coffee, became valid
May 31 and is good through June.
GASOLINE —"A" book coupons
No. 5 good for three gallons each
and must last tiil July 21.
i j
RED STAMPS For meat pro
ducts, canned fish. mo.-t edible
oils end cht.c.«p): red stamps "J"
! and "K" good through June.
SHOES No. IT Stamp in War
Ur.tion Book O.te n 1
i until June !■».
SUGAR- S'.v.mp N-. i:>. u.. «•'.
. :oi r i pounds i. t.-o: i> - valid Jur
arid is :;ood _ n A. .m l"
I
j Stamp* Nop. 13 l'i in \Y r
i Ration Bool: One now nj«. valid
' for a pounds ol sugar each. fot
I ■ ,
| us.' in home canning. They are
good through October 31. House
wives may apply at local boards
'for supplementary sugar rations
for home canning, if essential.
MAY USE OIL STOVES
North Carolina househojoers
may use their oil cooking stoves
this summer regardless of the
avai'nbihty of coal or wood-fired
stoves, GPA has announced. The
present restriction denying fuel
oil rations for domestic conking
and waiei heating, if advunfo
'
! "stand-by" equipment is avail
able, has ken lifted because if
the shortage of all fuels, and to
encourage home canning,
FOOD FOR 3-DAY FFIILOKiU
A North Carolina serviceman
on a leave or furlough of at least
3 days hereafter will be provided
with a complete application form
for obtaining rationed food before
he leaves camp. He will give the
application to the person who
provides his meals, who will sub
mit it to the local board for food
certificates within 15 days after
the furlough ends.
LOWER POTATO PRICES
SEVEN PERCENT.
I Consumer's ceiling prices on po
tatoes have been decreased about
j seven per cent., according to a
I recent OPA announcement. At
the snmo time, the price paid
i was increased 30 outs
per hundredweight on the I!M3
, early crop.
SreiAß M PIMA FOR I JUS
I On the basis of prospective
10-13 supplies of sugar, the cur
rent level of consumption in this
j country probably can be main
tained, the War Food administra
tion bad announced. The alloca
tion of the prospective supply
, will be as follows: 1,153,000 tons
for Hie armed forces, lend-lease
(Continued on Local page)
Numn;-r ".Till*.
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I'mltrf • AM \NN> » MORO
Than I ourte* n >1 ii'hu.-
Tl:e little town ..! Itai.bucy. 2t')
souls population, ir- ninushing tiuj
annuel forces of the United Stale;-!
22 men, which is 11 1-2 percent,
of the county .seat's population.
If the nation's 102.U00,1100 pop*
ulation furnished soldiers an 1
sailors and marines in tin- santo
proportion, the I 'nit.• I State?
would hay* today an army an"t
.viv;.* OF 11. 520.TM1L1 I! EII. The WAR
'!• I !tn:ellt lee. -lit: . .-1 i ',at.-it
the at (TIED :■> J\it • .11 ■vioo.OQO,
.: I -!tid it W. ■ • '.-e..; . 1 t IN:
r.i'e  • IJIMT/I'M) J. :
Tl! !■ nt (jlllti . I. ilube; Oi.'
111.lit "(..• .• !■ « e!. wll'j
Will 'lollbUl SS l,e .ill, li - •(!..
Resides the men mrnished. TO
the armed services, the town ha.'i
about 17 men and women engag*
ed in war work.
i
Death of
Mrs. Ruth Young
Mis. Ruth Young, agtd wid
ow of the late Jim Young, form
erly living near the old Jewel
place near Danbury, died at thj
Randolph Hospital Sunday foU
lowing an illness of several weeks.
James Young's first wife was a
Stewart, daughter of the late Col.
and Mrs. J. H. Stewart, of Dan
bury. and brother of Will Stewart
of the Wiley Southern place.
Surviving are dive daughters,
Mrs. Kenny Gray, Mrs. Lynn
Clifton, and Mrs. Leonard Ham
!
niond, all of Asheboro; Mrs. Nick
1 Stevens of Lawsonville; and Mrs.
Tom Gray of Danbury. ~
Buzzards Bring •- ;'
Down Airplane?
«. *
David Strother, a colored man
here who formerly lived in Vir-
Iginia, says he saw a (lock of buz
zards attack an airplane neat
; Danville, Va„ and finally got so
heavy on the wings of the piano
that it had to make a forced land
ing. though nobody was killed,
but the pilot was hurt,
j St! other says the buzzards lit
on the wings of the plane and
peek( (I it very damagingly, and
that two or three of the carrion
birds weie shot by the bombar
dier. When the plane hit the
i.rnun i, Strother says, the buz*
?ar.'.s flew away,
JOHN YATKS ESTATE SOLD
The John Yates estate, which
is in Asville, Stokes county, was
recently sold to Jessie Rhodes
and Joyce by J. A. Dillon. ,|