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THE DANBURY REPORT'tK
htahlisneil 1872
DALLAS GOIN
KILLED IN ACTION
TWENTY-FIFTH STOKES BOY
DIES IN WAR; REPORT IS
VESTER ROGERS MISSING
IN ACTION, NOT KILLED
Dallas Goin, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie Goin of Francisco,
and husdband of the former Miss
Brtha Nations, has been killed in
action, according to a message
from the War Department. Th?
parents received the message of
their son's death in the battle of
France Jan. 24th.
Vester Rogers, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Rogers of Lawsonville,
who was reported killed in France,
is now listed as missing.
The casualty list now numbr
-25, as follows:
Lim'.t. David R. Mitchell, Kir.v
killed in action in china.
Sst. John W. Collins. Francisco
killed in action in Florida.
Lieut. Jack Hutchorson, Walnut
Cove, killed in plane crash while
training in Florida.
Pvt. Loyd King, kill
ed in action at Bougainville.
Cpl. Robert Hall, Meadows, kill
ed in action in South Pacific.
Petty C nicer Jimmy Wallact
iffin, Fandy Ridge, killed in nc
on in Itily.
Cpl. Drcwry Glenn I locker, of
King, killed in action i:i Sicily.
Pic. Kverette J. Fulk, PlnnacL
killed in action in France, July 11
194!.
Lieut. Thos. A. Eggleston, D:I
lard, killed in action in Italy, Juiv
3, 1014.
Sgt. Thomas H. Fhelor, Fran
cisco, killed in action i:i France.
June HO, 11144.
Srt. Rich-id T. Pell. Jr.. Wo,:,
fielil, killed in France, July 11.
1941.
S.4t. O. W. Slawter, Kin-, kil!c
in noli 'ii iii France, Au us t 21.
1014.
Philip Simmons, Francisco, k:h
ed in action in Franco, Sept ,
1944.
Pvt. Gilmer W. White. Route 2
Walnut Cove, killed in action in
France September 22, 1944.
Pfc. Howard D. Tuttlc, German
ton, died on July 21, 1944, )!
wounds received while in action
in France.
Pvt. Jadie C. Hodge, of Sandy
Ridge, killed in action in HollanJ
on Sept. 21, 1941.
Hubert Merritt of King, killoc
in action.
Pvt. Buck Horton of King, k'!l
ed in action in Belgium.
Pfc. Millard E. Mabe of Sand\
Ridge, killed in action in Eel
«tiiin, Oct. 27, 1944.
Pvt. Clayt Card well of Wo«*
> f
.eld, killed in action in Ge»vr.arv
C'vtle I.awson. of Lawsonv ' •
killed in action in European th"
ater.
Pvt. Charles Malcolm Wvll, e
Madison, Routf 1, killed in actio:
in Italy Oct. 29. 1944.
Sgt. Marvin O. Lackey, Lawsop
Volume 72
LOCALS
Mrs. Earl Connor of Thomas
ville visited Mr. and Mrs. S. L.
Christian Sunday.
Mrs. W. B. Royalls leaves this
for High Point where
she will visit her family for sev
eral days.
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Jean Carol Beck and Jean WoM
spent Thursday and Friday here
with their respective families, re
turning to Woman's College Fri
day night, to begin their second
semester as freshmen.
Pai"line Booth has been ill fur
the past wiek with an infect." I
throat. Her condition is much
improved at tl..s time.
M;s. Elmer Petree, Mrs. Robah
Smith, Angela and Deese Taylor.
Marjorie and Josephine Pepper
and Lois Wall attended Jose Itui
bi in concert in Winston-Salem
Monday night.
Mrs. D. C. Kirby is recovering
from a sprained foot which was
the result of a fall at the schou.
building this week.
I Thost 1 from here who att nu.
the funeral of Miss Nannie L. IV p
per in Winston-Salem Wedne-dP...
were: Mrs. S. P. Christian, M> .
N. E. I'epper, Marjorie Pepper, i-..
S. Stokes, Mrs. J. S. Taylor, Shei
ilf John Taylor, Mrs. T. C. Cot'u
Miss Lucille Martin, Mrs. W. l
Joyce and Mrs. R. L. Smith.
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Mrs. Ann 11. Davis of Green
l.oro was uest of Mrs. Holli
Rhodes Thursday night. Jlr,
Davis also visited relatives in
Laws invillc.
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E. M. Taylor and S. P. Chi:
tian spent several days in Raleign
this week.
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' R. J. Scott is in Washington
ii D. C. for a few days.
1 "March Of Dimes"
Dance To Be Saturday
1 Night At 'Cove
|
Tiie annual "March of Dimes'
J dance will be held Saturday night
in the Junior Hall at Walnut
Cove. Admission prices are: men
$1; ladies, .10. The conimitt c
' urges the public to dance {hat
others may walk.
I ville, died of wounds rioter', in
the battle of Germany, December
1041.
R. C. TVn'h. Geraa-fon.
in action in Fi'ronoan m n i.i !'
. fmher, IP' l .
II !•••;• fa-it't. Lav." d'
of '.vr.-n 1-. receive 1 in a?'i • > i
.. Germany.
Dallas Gein. Francisco. killed ii
t action in France.
Danbury, N. C., Thurs day, Feb. 1, 1945 * * *
KING NEWS
3y S. f ■ XiAVSUM
King, Feb. I.—Joe Goff and
Miss Lorane King motored to
York, S. C. Saturday where they
were united in marriage. The
bride is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Johnny King of Capella and
the bridegroom is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Gray Goff of King.
Landis Newsum has returned
from Washington, D. C., where lit
spent several days on a busings?
trip.
The following patients under
went tor.sil removals in the clin
ic here Friday: Billy Gray Slate
of Capella, David Lawsoon o.
Rural Hall and Billy Long o!
King.
Announcement is made of the
marriage of Bulge Loiijr of Kin,
ar.J Miss Estelle Spainhour of
Rural Hall, Route 1, on Jan. 23.
T. G. Slate of the U. S. Army,
1
stationed at Camp Lee, Va., i«
, spending furlough with relatives
here.
Mrs. Gabe Tuttle and Miss Bon
ny Jean Shore of Rural Hall were
among the visitors here Friday.
Frank Newsum, son of Barnun
Newsum is undergoing treatment
in a Winst'on-Salem hospital foi
an internal injury incurred while
loading baled hay.
Mrs. Frank Pulliam is spendine
a few days at Norfolk, Ya.
where she is the guest of her liu?
band, a member of the U. S. Navy
Mrs. Caralea Ingram, aged 77
died at her home, one mile south
west of town, Saturday, follow
ing an attack of pneumonia. In
ermcnt was a Galatia Gemetcr;
Monday afternoon. Surviving ar
several children and a number o
grind iiiidren.
Hole's the stork's report: t.
' Mr. and Mrs. (lid While a son
1 to Mr. and Mrs. Rupert Webale
a son: to Mr. and Mrs. Edwari
Masor, a son; to Mr. and Mrs
Fate Dosker, a daughter; and *
1 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Martin, :
son.
Mrs. Herbert Marshal! and ehil
1 dren of Wilkesboro are visit In;
relatives here.
Miss Sallie J. King
Passes Tuesday Nigh
Funeral services for Miss Salli
•• Jane King who died Tuesda;
t night at the homo of her ncphc",
t Johnny King of Capella, were he!
, today at 2:30 in the Qu deer Ga
0 Baptist Church, Rev. E. T. Sim
•in cha!g» Bi ial in the 'iiutc
graveyard.
Miss King, 'l r j veirt old lia
'' been ill for two weeks before lie
f
death. She had lived in the Ca
p Ila section for around 8 years
1
fur-ivors: three nieces, Mr
Peter Bennett, Rural Hall, Mi
Grady Coloy of Walnut Cove, an
* T s. n-;!in Bennett, Rural Hal l
f'—r no -hews, W. S. King, H> ;
T .at. n . 11. King, Danbury. CI,- :
'' ley King of High Point and Johr
nie King, Rural Hall.
Second Battle of
Bataan May Soon
Be Fought
i
> A second battle of Bataan may
'be fought in the Philippines be
fore many moons pass.
' Hhis time the Japanese would
* be in th etrap, reversing the po.si
• tion in the early months of 19* J.
when heroic American c».l Fi'.i-
pino forces, backed into the Ba
taan Peninsula, fought a losing
~ fight against overwhelming oriels.
Yank invasion forces at" on the
Lingayen Gulf front of I.u/on is
" land, within 7i> miles of Bataai
l " Flat country, pierced by a fine
highway and a railroad, reaches
south'.vard to the month of th
bloody pi ninsula where Americai
0 and Filfpino troops after their
'■* surrender, suffered super-vicious
atrocities and then were forced t'
make the infamous death mar;'
'• from Bataan, during which un
s counted hundreds died.
s If a second battle of Bataan i;
fought, an important element wil
be missing - the barbarous 16:1
c division of the Imperial Japanes
Army. That division staged th
11 atrocities and the death march
1 General Douglas Mac Arthur'
11 forces came to grips with it oi
Leyte and it was wiped out.
The Japanese were preparin
' defenses on Bataan late in 19'.:'
" Reports from Manila are that t!i
I:'panose had conscripted F'
1 pina labor to work on Bataan Ii
!| installations barracks, gun po^
1 finns and other defense work?
1 Tl:e Japanese a'«o improved th
'* air fields at Marivoles, o:i th
southern tip of Bataan. a fe*
' miles from the island fortress
Corregidor, guarding the or.tr 1 ::
to Manila Bay.
Between the south shore of Li.
gayeu Gulf and Bataan there i
nut a single point where stii'l i
' siatance could be oilereil to
soutliward smash by the Yank
The only natural defense terra:
J is Bataan with its rugged jung'n
tangled hills,
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Rites Held Saturday
For Mrs. P. H. Younj
j Mrs. Mary Handy Young, ago
' 85, widow of P. H. Young, of Sa'
. dy Ridge, who died at the hon
of a grandson, Neal Dalton, «
Trinity, Route 1, after a long il
'V,
I . ness, was buried Saturday afto
noon at Snow Creek Bapti
«!'
Church. Burial was in the chur
us
graveyard. Mrs. Young was bo»
in Patrick County, Va., Octobi
, 28, 1859, a daughter of Wm. an
id
Marv Ann Handy. Slie had r
or
sided in Stokes countv for
a
vears and made her homo wi.
'P. '
her grandson for the past thr
years.
1 j Surviving are four daughter
I Mrs. D. G. Staples and Mrs. N.r
~ nio Yates of Greensboro; Mr
r WMI Dalton, Stuart, Va.: Mr
Li'lie I.awson Maillox, Va.; 1
grandchildren.
PUBLISHED THURSDAYS
Mrs. Boston Garner !
Dies Suddenly ]
Elizabeth Rehoeea («ai (
ner, aged 70, widow o.' Boston
Garner, died sudecnly at her hoia
Saturday morning. The funeral
' was held at Antioch Mc.hoaist
Church at 2 o'clock Tuesday aft
" crnoon with Rev. 1. L. Sharp i:i
charge. Burial was in the church
graveyard.
r Mrs. Garner was bora Sept. 2.
1874. She spent her entire life in
e
the same community.
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Survivors include eight chil
dren. Mrs. W. E. Spainhour and
0
Mrs. Reid Voss of King; Mrs. ild
na Honsley and Mrs. Fimo ''ar
bor, Winston-Salem; Mrs. Ray
n
Moore, Rural Hall; Tern Garner.
ir
Blucfield. Va.; Guy Gain r, G. id
is
ston; and Frank Garner, of the
homo; 37 grandchildren; and five
great-grandchildren.
1
is Pfc. Harry C. Doss
in At Bth Air Force Base
h
An VIII Air Force Service Con,
3"
mand Station, England.-- Pfc. Hi!
I, ry C. Doss, son of James O. Doss
,. K Route 2, Mt. Airy, is stationed a.
in this strategic air depot where L
-17 Flying Fortresses of the Eighth
j. Air Force are maintained and )•
.. paired. He works in the invoa
~, lory section of the supply .!■• ;
sion.
■ n Pfc. Dr.ss has been stationed in
the European Theater of Gpe>r
>t( tions since May. 1943. His br >sh
i,, or, Clifford is stationed at ».•'
v . Penning, Ga.
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01 I: BOYS
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;1 Pvt. Henry Frank Pell, son
"' Mr. an«.l Mrs. Wesley Pell. West
i: ' tic Id, has notihed his parents le
l 0" is now somewhere in France. II
entered the army June 19, 194;
trained at Camp Blanding, Fla.
went overseas in December.
s
Seaman 1C Robert E. Smith
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Smit
in . of Westfield, has notified his pa:
lie ents he is now somewhere over
0 f seas. He entered the navy Jun
ill. 20, 1944, and trained at Cans
, r _ Peary, Va.
i-.it
Pvt. Bernard H. Mitchell, so
ivn of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Mitchell o
jcr Pinnatle, has notified his parent
nJ lie is now in Franco. He entere
r. the army June 19, 1941. trained a
Camp Blaniling, Fla., went ovei
i;! seas in November.
Pvt. Wm. IL Fulk has n.it'l
, . i,j, ; (>;>•.•)«, Miss Benulah F.:lk
i"- King th-' !-e is now samowhe--
r*. in th rt C ntral Pacific. ITe ort* '
rd tlii marines in June, 1941, aa
in trained at Partis Island, S. C. an
New River.
__ Number 3,787.
S. A. FLINCHUM
RATIONING CHM.
OTHER MEMBERS ARE J. W
MOOREFIEIjD AND W. SAN
DERS HART
Sidney A. Flinchum of Dan
bury has been appointed new
chairman of the Danbury War
Price & Rationing Board by the
District UFA oiliee, Charlotte. Mr.
Flinchum, whose appointment was
made Tuesday, and who has ably
served the rationing oiliee in other
capacities, succeeds C. E. Davis
who resigned at the outset of his
campaign for State S nate last
f; !!. Mr. Davis' resignation took
(ffeit two weeks ago.
the . members of the Board
'ar \V. Sanders Hart •! Lawson
' villi? and J. W. Moon field. Mead
ows.
The Rationing Board will meot>
regularly each Monday at two
o'clock until panels are set up to
' handle rationing applications, and
thereafter only on occasions which
require the attention of the Board.
Miss Nannie L. Pepper
Passes Away Here
1 Miss Nannie Lou Pepper died
at a Winston-Safem hospital Moil
day night after a serious illness
i f only one Jay. Funeral services
were jonducted Wednesday after
-1 noon at !» o'clock at the home ol
a sister, Mrs. J. C. Dodson, at
Winston-Salem. Dr. W. A. Stan
fcuiy was in charge.
Burial was in Salem Cemetery.
Born in Stokes county, daugh
ter >'f Dr. DoWiit C. Pepper and
."gnes L- ;ik Pel per. she ppci.i
: v . . ! >■ ii e in Danbury. S!i •
iiw . i i i m-S- lem for a few
y-. ; r.d ' Btlhr.nia for eight
years, moving back to Danbury
i'i I!M4. She \v;.s i me i'tT ( :
t . Bithania Mot avian Church an i
~ Bethania Book Club, and was w.il
; know in Winston-Salem.
Surviving are thro? sisters, Mrs.
!. N. A. Martin ol Danbury, Mrs.
Anna P. Douglas of Princeton, \V.
Va.. and Mrs. Dodson of Wins
h, ton-Salem: and a number of
th nieces and nephews. '
Annual Red Cross
Meeting To Re Here
Monday, Feb. 5
The annual Red Cross meeting
for the Stol-.es County Chapter
1,1 will be hold at the courthouse on
s,r Monday. Feb. 5. Sellmnn Hows
cr. Asvistant Field Director ORD,
• wi.l !:e speaker. The program al
so includes invocation by the Rev.
* Nv r. Hovnl's, a talk by Prof. R.
J '- '•"■n nn.l ieporls of Depart
i "-nt C'nirmen.
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M' -cvt '.ANFOI'S SHOWER
C 'IPI.T:U:\T3 MRS. ROYALLS
On Tuesday evening Lois Wall,
' : V.'infrcl H: 11, Ellen and Marjorio
Popper were jcint hostesses nt 7
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