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f B1 BUY MORI THAR BEFORE The Alleghany News AND STAR-TIMES—(CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1941) —ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. Buynttre^T^nov for/^f security, too! VOLUME 56, NO. 45 $1.50 a Year in Alleghany County SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA $2.00 a Year Out of County THURSDAY, JULY 26, 194S Royal Child Is Drowned On Sat. At Roaring Gap Dies Despite Heroic Efforts To Restore Life; Funeral Held Sunday Little Christine Royal, 17 months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Quiney Royal, of Roaring Gap, was drowned Saturday morning in a swollen stream near her home, as she attempted to cross a foot log to get to her mo ther who was working on the other side of the stream. The little girl was the young est of five children of Mr. and Mrs. Royal, and according to re ports, she had been left in the care of an older child, who went inside the house for a few min utes to tie up a cut finger. While left alone, the tiny girl toddled off into the creek and was swept a distance downstream. It is un derstood that the mother found the body. For two hours, Miss Jean Viv ian Stockton, of Winston-Salem, and Miss Ann Upchurch, of the staff of Girl Scout Camp Shirley Rogers at Roaring Gap, waged a losing battle to bring breath back to the little girl by artificial res piration They were relieved on ly when the Elkin rescue squad arrived with a pulmoter. The pulmotor worked perfect ly from the time it was applied, but all efforts to restore the pulse of the child failed. The work of the. two staff members and of the rescue squad was warmly praised by physicians from Roar ing Gap, stating that they had done all that was humanly possi ble to effect revival of the little girl. Funeral service was conducted Sunday at Mt. Carmel church at Roaring Gap with Rev. Claude Bartley, officiating Interment followed in the church cemetery. Final Rites Held For Mrs. Hudson Alleg'rrny Woman Dies In Maryland Following Long Illness Mrs A>ma R. Hudson, Allegha ny county woman, age 68, died early Friday morning, July 13, from complications of diabetes, at the home of her son, Dr. Wil lard P. Hudson, of Forest Hill, Maryland. She had been m ill health for several years and dur ing the past four years had made her home in Maryland. Surviving the deceased are her husbahd, William Sherman Hud son, of Sparta; six sons, Dr. Wil lard P. Hudson, Forest Hill, Md.; Kenneth W. Hudson, Sparta; Dr. Clifford F. Hudson, Fork, Md.; Clinton C. Hudson, Omaha, Nebr.; Cpl. Lloyd T. Hudson, England, and Herman R. Hudson, Sparta; one brother, Herman Rost, Fair play, Colo.; and two sisters, Mrs. Silas Rogers, Fairplay, Colo., and Mrs. Henry Watters, Goodlar.d, Kan. Funeral service was conduct ed at the home of her son, Dr. Willard P. Hudson, Forest Hill, Md., on Monday, July 16, at 11: 00 o’clock by Rev. F. E. Thomp son, assisted by Rev. R. L. Mow bray. Interment was in Mt. Zion Cemetery. Those serving as pallbearers were: Mr. Roland War, Thomas L. Edwards, Samuel A. Spicer, Sabe A. Richardson, Vernon Bachman and Charles Breiden baugh. Mrs. Busic Dies In Roanoke, Mon. Funeral service for Mrs. Willie Reeves Busic, 35, wife of Lonnie Busic, was conducted yesterday afternoon at the First Baptist church in Galax, with Rev. Her bert R. Carlton, officiating. Bu rial followed in the Cranberry cemetery near Laurel Springs. Mrs. Busic, who died Monday night at the Jefferson hospital, Roanoke, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Reeves, of Laurel Springs. Educated in Al leghany schools, Mrs. Busic taught in the Sparta schools for some time and for a number of years she had made her home in Galax, Va. Surviving in addition to her husband and parents is one sis ter, Mrs. Eugene Shepherd, of Laurel Springs. All Roads Now Lead To Tokyo Here are some points on the map that may lead to an early defeat of Japan: (1) Heavy shipping from west coast; (2) possible aid from Manchuria; (3) continued raids from newly captured bases in the Pacific. Complete Plans For Big Lamb Show To Be Held Next Wed. Prizes Will Be Given; Show To Be Sponsored By The Sparta Grange Plans are now being completed for the lamb show which will be held on the lawn of the communi ty building here next Wednesday, August 1, under the sponsorship of the Sparta Grange, officials announced this week. Any member of the 4-H club or FFA club is eligible to enter lambs in the show, it was an nounced. The first show of its kind ever to be held in this coun ty, it is expected to be well at tended and much interest is be ing shWn by the general public as well as those boys and girls who expect to enter lambs in the show. Many prizes will be offered, and all lambs grading good or choice will be awarded prizes, R. E. Black, county agent, and mem ber of the arrangements commit tee for the show, announced. A prize of $5.00, donated by Van Miller, will be given for the best pair of twin lambs in the show. Another prize of $500 will be given for the best pair of lambs whether twin or not, pro vided they are owned by exhibi tor For the grand champion lamb of the show, a prize of $10.00, do nated by J. Hort Doughton, has been offered. Any additional prizes will be given by the Spar ta Grange. The public is invited to attend the show and a special invitation is extended to those farmers who donated ewes to the 4-H and FFA (Continued on Page 4) Few Changes In Hunting Season R. F. Crouse, chairman of the fish and game committee of the North Carolina board of Conser vation and Development, an nounced this week that no chang es materially effecting this sec tion were made r in the hunting laws at a meeting of the board, held at Morehead City, last week. Alleghany Men Are Classified By Local Board Few Are Placed In I-A; Other Classifications Are Given Below The local board this week an nounced classifications of 26 Al leghany men for military service with only three placed in I-A, four in 4-F and 19 in various oth er classifications. The list of classifications is as follows: ■* I-A: Vilace L. Hamm, Biiren D. Evans and Odell Glenn. 1- C (Disc): Cebert Maxwell, John W. Richardson, Clarence M. Edwards, Walter Brinegar, Er hest H. Taylor and Helton L. Cochran. ' 2- A: Nelson McMillan. 2-A (F): Joe W. Finney and James A. Mabe. 2-C: Claude W. Mabe, Johnnie O. Long, Bert C. Edwards and Jess A. Taylor. 2-C (F): Leff F. Cox. 4-A: Arno Maines, Noel R. Fain, Bayse Thornton, Homer C. Rector and Welter H. Waddell. 4-F: Martin E Serber, Winfrey H. Osborne, John P. Turner and Irwin W. Roberts. Joines Cleared In Trial Friday Ray Joines, charged with man slaughter in the death of Char lie McMillan, who was killed in an I automobile accident here July 14, Jwas pronounced “not guilty” in j a hearing before justice of the peace G. Glenn Nichols, here, ! last Friday afternoon. According to evidence given at ! the trial, McMillan was driving i on the wrong side of the road when the accident occured. Joines was driving a trailer truck which I belonged to Reid Hampton. Witnesses at the trial included (Continued on Page Four) Pfc. Cleve Andrews Is Freed From Nazi Internment Camp Echoing the sentiments of all other returned prisoners of war, Pfc. Cleve Andrews, of Sparta, this week, praised the work of the American Red Cross in get ting food to American men in Na zi internment camps. Captured on January 22, 1943, at Cassino, Pfc. Andrews, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Andrews, was first reported missing in ac tion. About 11 months after his capture along with a number of other Americans he was taken to Stalag 2-B near the Polish bor der, where he met Pfc. Hale Tru itt, another Alleghany soldier, who was a prisoner of war of the Germans for 27 months. “We saw each other almost ev ery day,” he said, “but we were separated into different groups for the marth to Gustrow, Ger many, when we were on the road 38 days, traveling a distance of more than 460 miles.” Pfc. Andrews was liberated by the Russians on May 2, one day later than Pfc. Truitt. Following his liberation, he spent twelve days in the city before he joined the English and Americans, be cause battles were still raging in that arch. ■ During the time he was a pris oner of war, Pfc. Andrews said that he received five packages from home and twelve letters. “We even heard about the death of President Roosevelt the day after it actually happened but we did not believe it,” he continued. “ff it had not been for the Red Cross we would have starved,” he cut in when asked about the food in the Nazi prisons. Just before his liberation, Pfc. Andrews had been dispatched to work cutting :wood blocks for the (Continued on Page 4) Lamb Fool Is To Be Held Here Next Thursday Schedule For Collection Is Announced By County Agent A cooperative lamb pool will be held in Alleghany county on Thursday, August 2, with all lambs to be sold (o Swift ana Company, R. E. Black, county agent, announced this week. The lambs will be loaded at North Wilkesboro, he stated. Any farmer wishing to haul his own lambs may deliver them to the loading point there and will be paid according to weight when delivered, he pointed out. The schedule for gathering the lambs is as follows: Grader No. 1: J. C. Gambill, 8:00 a. m.; J. R. Gambill, 8:45 a. m.; Elk Creek, 9:45 a. m.; Field en Ward, 10:30 a. m.; John C. Halsey, 11:15 a. m.; C. L. Hash, 12 Noon; S. M. Mitchell, 1:30 p. m.; S. C. Richardson, 2:15 p. m.; Etta Moxley, 3:15 p. m.; C. T. Edwards, 4:00 p. m.; H. G. Black, 4:30 p. m.; D. J. Jones, 5:30 p. m.; Barnard Church, 6:15 p. m.; and Prather’s Creek, 6:45 p. m. Grader No. 2: Lee Hampton, 8:00 a. m.; R. L. Crouse, 8:45 a. m.; Ruby Woodruff, 9:15 a. m.; T. L. Crouse, 10:00 a. m.; Kell Edwaids, 10:45 a. m.: Coy Richardson, 12 Noon; Bob Thompson, 1:30 p. m.; R. N. Hollaway, 2:00 p. m.; White head, 2:30 p. m.; Lonnie Edwards, 3:00 p. m.; Eddie Hoppers, 3:30 p. m.; W. W. Warden Mt„ 4:30 p. m.; W. F. Doughton, 6:00 p. m.; and M. E. Reeves, 6:30 p. m. The last shipment of lambs made on July 6 and sold to Swift and Company, proved very satis factory with top lambs selling for $15.75 per hundred at the loading point, Mr. Black stated. The cost of marketing the lambs, includ ing trucking charges, was only 26 cents .per head, he explained. Dean Richardson Is Injured Sat* Son Of Mr. And Mrs. R. E. Richardson Is Accidentally Shot Here Dean Richardson, 19-vear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Rich ardson, of Whitehead, was seri ously injured here last Saturday, afternoon when a .32 pistol he was handling, accidentally went off, shooting him through the left side just below the heart. The bullet went through the body, lodging in the back of the seat of the automobile in which he was riding at the time of the accident. According to reports, young Richardson was riding with his father through town when he picked up the gun from the seat of the car and it accidentally dis charged. He was rushed to the Hugh Chatham Memorial hospi tal in Elkin, where his condition is reported to be slightly improv ed. Dean, a popular member of Sparta’s younger set, was sched uled to enter the armed forces today, after volunteering for serv ice several months ago. He has attended Oak Ridge Military In stitute, Oak Ridge, for the past year and one-half and is a gradu ate of Sparta high school. M.-Sgt. Nichols Gets Discharge Has .Served 42 Months In Ar my, Nine Months Overseas In Pacific Its the only time in my life that my age has been any advan tage to me,” said M-Sgt. Robert Nichols yesterday as he pushed his new sports hat further back on his head where a G. I. hat has rested for the past 42 months. M.-Sgt. Nichols, popular Spar ta man, was recently discharged from the U. S. Army, after 42 months service apd nine months duty overseas on Tinian Island in the Mariana group in the Pacific. “I’m just resting and taking ev erything easy for awhile,” the discharged Alleghany soldier continued, “and believe me, it’s great to be back here.” “And by the way, just for the record, these gray hairs and bald head were not caused by worry over women,” he laughed, sound ing exactly like the proverbial Master Sergeant lotting a group of new recruits know where they stand. Outgoing And Incoming Mayors . Mill R. F. Crouse, left, who resigned this week as mayor of the town of Sparta, and Alton Thompson, right, who was named to fill the unexpired term left by Crouse. Japanese Warships Damaged In Raid; Great Kure Base Hit British Leave Parley To Get Return Of Votes Churchill Goes Home To Learn Official Returns Of Election The Big Three conference paused temporarily late yester day while British leaders go home to learn election results and dis cover who shall speak finally for Britain in the history-charting negotiations. Prime Minister Churchill, For eign Secretary Eden, and Cle ment Attlee, Labor party leader, flew to London for today’s an-, nouncement of the July 5 ballot- j ing. On Friday at the earliest the victor is expected back—either Churchill, the Conservative par ty head, with Eden still his for eign expert, or Attlee with a new foreign secretary of his choosing. A formal British announcement said, “there is no question of the Berlin conference being over by Wednesday when the prime minis ter, the foreign secretary, and Mr. Attlee are returning to England for the election results.” Charles Parsons Died On Saturday Charles B. Parsons, 83, died at the home of Mrs. Reece Gilham in Sparta on July 21, after a lin gering illness of severhl months. Funeral service was conducted Tuesday at Piney Creek Method ist church with Rev. C. R. Alli son and Rev. Mr. Sturgill in charge Burial ’followed in the church cemetery. The aged man, who had made his home at various places in the county for a number of years, part time with Blake Hampton and part time with Mrs. Gilham, is survived by only one daughter, Mrs. Olga Fulton, of Wise. Va. Halsey Believes Japanese Fleet Has Been Badly Damaged American and British carrier planes heavily damaged two Jap anese battleshiDS, two aircraft carriers and three cruisers in co ordinated attacks on Japan’s great Kure naval base and at a Shikoku island port Tuesday. Admiral Nimitz, in a communi que, disclosed that tine bombing and bombardment of the Japan ese homeland was carried into its eight day of the past 15 when cruisers and destroyers moved close inshore early and shelled a seaplane base and an airfield on Southwestern Honshu. Just one hour later, he issued a second communique reporting that American and British carrier planes renewed their heavy at tacks on Japanese warships and merchant vessels at dawn yester day. The new carrier attacks center ed in the Kure naval region and at Kobe. Other military targets were objectives. ' j Adm. William F. Halsey said yesterday his third fleet’s mighty offensive was the beginning of the “final plunge into the heart of the Japanese empire” and warned the people of Nippon that I (Continued on Page Four) Still Destroyed By Officers Mon. A moonshine still in the vicini ty of Little Pine was destroyed by local officers Monday night and three men on the scene at the time the officers arrived, es caped through the woods. A huge outfit, the still had a capacity of 3,000 gallons. In op eration when officers arrived, a large quantity of beer and mash was being worked. Approximate ly 1,000 gallons of mash was de stroyed as well as ten gallons of ; liquor. Flower Exhibit Sponsored By Woman’s dub Is Big Success The flower exhibit sponsored here last Friday by the Sparta Woman’s Club was an outstanding success with more than 55 club members and guests present. Summer residents of Roaring Gap acted as judges in the con test and Mrs. Lan Franche, of New York, spoke informally to the group on flower arangements. She also discussed the arrange ments entered in the exhibits, pointing out the fine points and criticizing those that were not good. Assisting Mrs. Franche in judg ing the exhibits were: Mrs. Ralph Hanes and Mrs. Gray, both 'if Winston-Salem, and Mrs. Wal lace, of New York. Winning ribbons in the various contests were: For living room arrangements, Mrs. Walter Osborne, blue ribbon; Miss Pearl Fields, red ribbon; for end table arrangements. Miss Clyde Fields, blue ribbon and Mrs. R. F. Crouse, red ribbon; for sick table arrangements, Mrs. T. J. Carson, blue ribbon and Miss Pearl Fields, red ribbon; lor porch arrangements, Miss Pearl Fields, blue ribbon and Mrs. R. A. Dough ton, red ribbon; dining room ar rangements, Mrs. A. V. Choate, blue ribbon and Mrs. Ralph Gen try, red ribbon; pot flowers, Mrs. Carrie H. Jones, blue ribbon and red ribbon; wild flowers, Mrs. Lo la Womble, blue ribbon and Miss Evelyn Brown, red ribbon; pa triotic table, Mrs. Tom Noland, blue ribbon- and Miss Clyde Fields, red ribbon; mixed flow ers, Mrs. Julius Womble, blue rib bon and Mrs. Ellen Parks, red ribbon and for coffee table ar rangements, Mrs. W. F. Osborne, ilue ribbon. In charge of arrangements for (Continued on Page 4) Crouse Resigns As Town Mayor; Thompson Named Outgoing Mayor Has Brought Many Improvements To Town During 15 Years R. F. Crouse, mayor of the town of Sparta for the past 15 years, ♦endered his resignation at a meeting of the Town Council held here at the courthouse, Tuesday night. Alton Thompson, well-known Sparta man and cashier of the Northwestern Bank, here, was named to serve in the office of mayor for the unexpired term which ends in May, 1947. Thomp son has not yet taken the oath of office, however. Mr. Crouse, prominent attorney and well-known legislator, stated that his resignation was necessi tated by his appointment to the North Carolina board of Conser vation and Development recently. Crouse first served as mayor of Sparta in 1923 for a period of a few years, following which Geo. Cheek, Eugene Transou and T. R. Burgiss filled the office. Then in 1930 he was again elected to the office in which he has served un til this time. During his tenure in the office of mayor, all sidewalks in the town of Sparta have been built and the water and sewerage sys tem installed at a cost of over $100,000.00. Mayor Crouse fought bitterly against much opposition for the installation of the water system, which was installed here in 1938-39. Also during nis term in office the town debt has been reduced to $21,000.00. “Mayor Crouse has made an excellent record and we are in debted to him for his long years af faithful service,” one official said this week. Continuing in their office as (Continued on Page 4) Mrs. Fender, 73, ■ ihtritifi Tuesday Funeral And Burial Service Conducted At The Zion Primitive Baptist Church Funeral service for Mrs. Chris tina Crouse Fender, 73, wife of the late Smith Fender, was held Tuesday, July 24, at Zion Primi tive Baptist church with Elders J, C. Sparks and S. G. Caudill, officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery Mrs. Fender, the daughter of the late Freel and Sara Crouse, died at her home at Sparta, Rt. 2, July 21. after an illness of sev eral months. She is survived by three sons, Reid Fender, of Sparta; Henry Fender, of Winston-Salem and Creed Fender, of Glade Valley; two stepsons, Arthur Fender, Austinville, Va., and Claude Fen der, Shorts Creek, Va ; three brothers, Walter Crouse Furches; Glenn Crouse, Glade Valley and Duffey Crouse Sparta; four sis ters, Docia Crouse, Sparta; Mrs. Margaret Brown, Mt. Airy; Mrs. Joe Sparks, Sparta and Mrs. Ma ry Brown, of Minnesota. Also surviving are 22 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren Pallbearers were Rufus Fen der, Bertie R. Crouse, J. R. Ed wards, Arvel Sparks, Bert Ed wards and Coy Wolfe. Flower girls were grandchil dren: Norma Fender, Wilma Fen der, Alma Fender. Bessie Fen der, Madeline Fender and Ruth Moore. Baptists Canning For Orphanage Mrs. Gene Irwin, chairman of the canning committee of the Alleghany Association for the Baptist orphanage, announced this week that 99 dozen cans had been received and were being dis tributed for filling. The cans are being carried to the various eleven Baptist church es throughout the county by the pastors and are being distriouted to the women in the churches, she pointed out. The women aie ask ed to pick up the cans there. Pointing out the needs of the orphanage, Mrs. Irwin stated that tomatoes and string beans were needed more than any other can ned foods. Mrs. Irwin also asked that the cans be turned in sometime dur ing the month of September in order that they might be ready
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