THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872 Volume 66
COURT SET FOR
JANUARY 13
GOVERNOR HOEY NOTIFIES
: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
i AND CLERK TtJTTLE OF
i SPECIAL TERM—CRAIG TO
BE TRIED —OIVER CASES.
Judge Hubert Olive of Lexing
ton will preside at a special term
of one week criminal court at
Danbury beginning Monday, Jan
uary 13. Solicitor Ralph Scott of
Danbury will prosecute for the
State.
Governor Hoey's order for the
special term was received by
Clerk J. "Watt Tuttle on Decem
ber 29. This action by the gov
ernor WCCB at the request of the
Board of County Commissioners,
and thr 'special term is in lieu of
the regular term due Jan. 6,
which was called off because it
conflicted with a term in another
county of this district.
The same jury which had pre
viously been summoned to serve
at fhe Jan. 6 term will be used
for the special term, at which
Anthony Craig will be arraigned
on the charge of killing Otis Wat
kins at Craig's home on Monday
afternoon, Dec. 23.
Many other criminal actions
w39 be heard at the same term.
WINSTON-SALEM
P. C. A. MEETS
SATURDAY, JAN. 11 IS DATE—
STATEMENT BY 1* E.
FRANCES, SECRETARY.
(Special to the Reporter)
Stockholders of the Winston-
Satem Production Oedit Associa
tion will hold their aanual meet
is* in the Foreyth county court
house at Winston-Salem on Sat
urday morning, January IX, -at
10 £0 o'clock, occording to an
announcement by L. E. Francis,
secretary of the sasodatMC
At 'this meeting, "complete an!
detailed reports will be made by
the jjfficers of the association as
its operations for the past year.
Directors will be elected sad oth
er important business will be
transacted.
In announcing the date aI the
meeting, Mr. Francis said
that it was hoped to make the at
tendance stockholders at this
year's meeftiag the largest in the
history of file association. He
said that the annual meetings of
the association afford the stock
holders an opportunity to learn
every detail of the operations of
thdr organization.
The Winston-Salem Production
Credit Association, which makes
short-term loans to finance all
types of farm and livestock op
erations, serves Alleghany, Artie,
Caldwell, Davidson, Forsy t, h,
Stokes, Surry, Watauga and Yad
kin counties, and in 1940 made
loans totaling $157,000.00 to its
members.
Mrs. A. J. Fagg of Winston-
Salem was guest of Mrs. H M.
Joyrv njid Vp''lr» Joyce Tues
day "'"M
Death of Mrs. Clint
Davis In Portland, Ore.
Mrs. L. C. Davis died at her
home in Portland, Oregon, on
Dec. 24. She had been in ill
health for two years.
Mrs. Daws was the wife of L.
Clint Davis, formerly a Danbury
boy, who has been a successful
business man of Portland for a
number of years. He is a brother
of C. E. and H, H. Davis of Wal
nut Cove and G. C. Davis of Win
ston-Salem.
Attend New Year's Eve
Dance at Hotel Roof
The following were a party from
Danbury, Walnut Cove and Madi
son who attended the new year's
eve dance atop the Robert EL Lee
Hotel, in Winston-Sal em, Tuesday
night:
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Wall, Lois
Martin, Bill Campbell, Mary Ger
ner, Robert King, Lacy Gibson,
Marjorie Pepper, Beverly Chris
tian, Margie Petree, George
Petree, Noranne Tuttle, Vance
Pepper, Sarah Sands, Martin L.
Mitchell, Ellen Pepper, Leonard
van Nopren, Emorie Pepper, Fred
Pepper, Sue Bess Goolsby.
Franklin D. Is Bade
In Town Again
(Frances H. .Marshall)
What's this nevus that .going
around
From the Wfcke House -over
town?
Gracious me! Wfcy Franklin D.
is back in Xonai again!
All pigeons oh the lawn
Strut around from early moca-
Can't you see? Why Franklin
XL is back in IOWA Again?
Little squirrels swing and sway
Chatter in that "friendly" way
Happy days will come to stay—
Let case what mv—hip, hip,
hoonay!
Franklin U. .is bank in town
agai ai
And the peanut vender man
Grins and aays "New life is
grand"!
While "FTM& stays here then
I can,
.Some peanuts— free! 'Cause
Franklin D. is back -in town
again."
Road Work Rests
Urtil the weather toprowss,
work on the reconstruction
No. from near oemjnonß' 'Ford
lo Francisco is Held up. In some
places etas highway is practically
impaasatfe. It win he spring be
fore the project s completed.
Terry Bsown of the Hardbank
section was here Tuesday. Mr.
Brown says the road between
Buck Island and Clemmons* Ford
lis very bad. The recent rains
have greatly deteriorated the
dirt roads in all sections of the
county.
!
Campbell of Martinsville,
' ■'n., vlsiud relatives here Wed- 1
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, Jan. 2,1941.
(Editorial)
A "WHEELER PEACE"
We do not know that Senator Burton K. Wheel
er is on the Reich payroll.
But we do know that the Senator from Mon
tana is preaching the doctrine and distributing
the propaganda for which Hitler pays enormous
sums of money in countries which he first stupe
fies before conquering.
Shakespeare said whom the gods would de
stroy he first makes mad.
Whom Hitler would destroy he first makes
credulous and trusting.
After this the march of the mechanized divi
sions is easy.
France had the finest army in the world, but
many of her leaders were corrupted by prear
rangements of Hitler. These paid leaders had
quietly undermined the strength of the nation,
and weakened its morale. The people'* will to
resist was destroyed. In Belgium, the King
gave up without a struggle. Other countries
likewise had been fixed through their leaders by
German propaganda and Reich cash.
The cost of a first class battleship is 75 millions
of dollars. Seventy-five millions is a small
amount to a government that has subjugated
many other governments and appropriated
their resources.
But Hitler much prefers to buy men than bat
lleships. It takes years to build a battleship. It
does not take long to negotiate with a man who
is willing to sell his country if you make the
price attractive enough. Once the kingdom of
heaven was sold for 30 pieces silver. There's a
lot of difference between 30. pieces of silver and
a million.
Men are more useful and pliant than steel.
The pen or the voice may be mightier than the
sword. Populations may be lulled into an apathy
of death by dope administered from men high
up in the counsels and the esteem of the nation.
The old time religion used to tell us that when
Satan wanted to snare a soul, his most effective
argument was "don't be foolish, don't get fright
ened, just wait awhile."
The policy of Senator Wheeler in his radio re
ply to the President's warning of danger, was
that the imagined "danger is. fantastic. The
tiling for us to do is to secure from Hitler a just,
leasonable and generous peace."
Petain asked Hitler for an honorable peace.
France got it on Hitler's ideas of honor. Today
France is in chains, and her populations starving,
whjfle her patriotic leaders await the firing
aguad. -
Same stuff in Belgium, Holland, Norway, Den -
mark and others—their independence now gone,
iheir citizens serfs.
Ac showing the specious reasoning of the Sen
ator in opposing the all-help for England by
America, we quote from his address:
"Remember—Hitler has already been seven
montlis in vainly trsng to qross 20 miles. If
Hitlers army can't cross the narrow English
channel in seven months his bombers wont fly
across the Rockies to Denver tomorrow."
The Senator's ignorance is staggering if he
does not know that but for the British |
fleet England would have been conquered
months ago, and that bombers are now in use by
Doth Germany and England that can fly to New
York and return to Europe without refueling.
If he is not ignorant, then he would knowingly
compromise the safety and security of America
by such lethal advice and propaganda as put our
in hv> broadcast. He must know that with the
fall oi the British empire, Hitler would control
all of the sea and air power of Europe, and be
assisted by Japan.
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Published Thursdays
Lawsonville. Mildred Staples,
Annie Mae Lawson, Elaine Stev- |
ens, E. G. and Leonard Lawson
visited Miss Billy Tucker Satur
day night.
Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Stevens
and family visited relatives in
West Virginia during the Christ
mas holidays.
Mrs. Gertrude D. Lawson and
children spent Sunday with
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. P. H. j
Young at Sandy Ridge.
Miss Mildred Staples of Greens j
boro spent the week-end with
Annie Mae Lawson.
Miss Margaret Shelton o£ Win- j
stcn-Salem visited Miss Thelma
Wat kins last week.
Mrs. Winifred Owens of Stuart, |
Va., spent last week with her;
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Josh Law
son of Lawsonville.
Mr. and Mrs. Ruffian Lawson
are the glad parents of a fine
baby boy.
Mr. and Mrs. D. I. Clark of
High Point visited relatives here
and at Stuart, Va., during
Christmas.
Mrs. Martha P. Morris and
daughter, Sarah, and Mrs. Sadie
P. Kallam visited William Prin
gle and wife in Charlotte, and go
ing from there to visit Captain
-ftenry Neilaon and wife at Fort
Bennings, Ga., during the holi
days.
Betty Joe Lawson spent the
week-end with grandparent*, Mr.
and Mrs. Will Dalton of Stuart,
Va.
Miss Annie Mae Lawson spent
Sunday night with Misses Mil
dred and Betty Martin.
Mrs. Martha P. Morris and
daughter, Sarah went to Greens
boro Tuesday evening.
German-King
; y
Mr. and Mrs. R. R. King of
Danbury announce the marriage
of their eldest daughter, Nell
Louis, to Earl G. German, of
Springfield and Ludlow, Vermont.
Mr. and Mrs. German, accom
panied by Mrs. Mary M. Gerner
and Mrs. Lois Pearson, were
married in York, S. C., Thursday,
December 26, 1940.
The bride was attired in A
green suit with black accessories
She attended Walnut Cove High
School and Draughn's Business
College, In Winston-Salem.
Mr. German, son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. O. German, of Spring
field, Vt., attended the University
of Vermont, and is now employ
ed by the Ludlow Arsenal.
Mr. and Mrs. German will re
side in Ludlow, Vt.
It is learned that while in New
York city, enroute to Ludlow,
Mr. German was stricken with
pneumonia, and is now in a hos
pital in New York city.
Born to Dr. and Mrs. W. E.
Wilkinson on Dec. 26th, 1940. at !
their home in Flvnbethtown. Kv
•
a baby boy. Mrs. Wilkinson was
formerly V .v«. T-».. '
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Number 3,571
ELMER P. NEWSUM
BACK FORM R'NOKE
SPANISH - AMERICAN WAS
VETERAN RETURNS FROM
HOSPITAL—ROBER HOOKER
CRITICALLY ILL OTHER
NEWS FROM THE ROYAL
TOWN, KINO.
Kin*- The royal town with a
royal name. —Jan. 2. Elmer P.
Newsum, Spanish-American War
veteran, has returned from the
Veteran's Hospital, Roanoke, Va.,
where he underwent a physical
examination. Newsum who has
travelled extensively, states that
in all the places he has ever vis
ited he has never received more
I courteous treatment thani that
.extended him at the Veteran's
I Hospital. There are eleven large
two-stcry brick buildings with
more to be erected. The beds
were fine and the food excellent
and well prepared. There are
approximately 'twelve hundred
veterans in the hospital exclusiva
of the personnel. The grounds
comprise an area of six hundred
! acres, a considerable portion of
which is farm land on whi c n
pracfically all provisions consum
ed at the hospital are grown.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Coker of
I Ironsdale, Ala., are visiting Mrs.
Coker's brother, Dr. Floyd Strope
at Tobaccoville. -This is the first
time Dr. Strupe has seen his sis
ter in thirty-thres years.
Roy Alridge and Early Spain
bower have returned to Norfolk,
Va., after spending Lb* holiday*
here.
Mrs. Lula PuUian, who under
went a major operation in a Win
ston-Salem hospital Saturday 1*
getting along as well as eould oe
expected.
James C. Barge of High Paint
spent the week-end here the
'guest of h>.c sister, Mrs. /Jviu
'white on Meadowview Driv».
■! Mr. and Mrs. ft. M. Hauser ofl
> Bethania Station, formerly of
II King, were ameag the visitors
here Sunday. i
Rober Hooker is critically U1 at
his home one mile Booth of town,
' his frends will regret to learn.
Miss Ethel Kirtiy of Wiaston-
Salem visited relatives and
friends here Sunday. 4
I Joe Alley who holds a position
at Fort Bragg, spent Sunday with
his family on east Main street.
Herman Newsum, who resides
on Broad street, has about fully
recovered from a re&nt illness.
Newel Vest has returned to hi 3
home in Charlotte after a visit to
relatives here.
O. L. Rains has purchased the
bankrupt stock of the Cut-Rate
Furniture Company on Depot
street and will continue the bus
iness at the srune location.
The following births were re
corded here last week: to Mr. and
Mrs. James Boyles, a daughter,
and to Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Speaae,
a son.
I
Mrs. E!m.r Boyles gave a staj
i party a* 1 • i 1 ' ? on west main
v t i'utu df j, . .JU in honor of
I-niulh mile-