THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872
ANTHONY CRAIG
GETS 7-10 YEARS |
SLAYER OF OTIS WATKINS I
GIVEN PRISON SENTENCE— :
JURY OUT THREE HOURS
OTHER CASES DISPOSED OF
After deliberating for 3 hours |
the jury in the case of State vs.
Anthony Craig for the murder of
Otis Watkns returned a verdict
of guilty of manslaughter. The
defendant was immediately sen
tenced to a term of 7 to 10 years
in State prison.
i
Kirby of Danbury and Mai
thews of Leaksville were attorn- 1
eys for the defense of Craig.
Solicitor Scott prosecuted for the j
State.
Other cases handled by Judge
Olive of Lexington in this week's
special term of crimnal court
have been disposed of as follows:
STATE AGAINST:
Rene Lcroy Burtner, o. c. i„ !
$5O and cost, license revoked.
Ralph Stanley, o. c. i., 90 days.
Ted Gerry, possession of liquor, j
4 months road sentence suspend-
ed upon payment of $5O and cost.
Carnie Wm, Greenwood, o. c. i.,
60 days.
Wilbur Lamb, o. c. i., 60 days. ;
Wilbur Heioy and Robah Kirk. (
b. and e. and larceny. Wilbur
Heroy, 12 months; Robah Kirk ;
12 months suspended upon pay- ,
ment of cost.
Leonard Penn, c. c. w. and o. c.
8 montln.
Sam Justice, disposing of mort
gaged property, 4 months sus
pended upon payment of cost.
Gradie Ziglai, o. c. i., $5O and .
cost, license revoked.
I
Wheeler Jackson, aiding in J
transporting liquor. Cost.
Carey Jackson, aiding in trans- j
porting liquor. Cost.
Ellis C- Brown, transporting li
quor. Cost.
Tilman Carter, aiding in trans
porting liquor. Cost.
Lemuel Nelson, driving drunk,
$5O and cost. >(' ..,
Asque Brim, a. d. w., 6 months
suspended upon payment of $25
and cost, $25 to B. Z. Dodd for
doctor's bill.
Richard Wairters, larceny, 5
months.
Sid Weaver, driving drunk, 90
days.
Bill Southern, o. c- i., $5O And
cost ,
Fi' -rt Bullin, manufacturing li
qi oaths.
ill. o. c. L, 60 days.
uilln, manufacturng
liquor. Not guilty.
Frank Jacobs, assault, 8 months
si -led upon payment of costs, j
Rumley, o. c. L, $5O ani
i at, license revoked.
Willie Ashby, o. c. i., $5O and
cost, license revoked.
William Spencer, non - support,
8 maaths suspended upon pay
ment of cost, and $lO monthly to
Ethel Spencer for benefit of their
children.
Wade Otis Crotts, trapport
iiquor, 4 months suspended upon
Volume 66
| Fred Kiger Killed By
| Truck at King Monday
Night
Fred Kiger, aged 55, of King,
was instantly killed Monday night
about 6 o'clock when struck by a
truck while crossing the highway, j
| Deputy Sheriff H. H. Brown !
said Kiger was struck by a truck j i
operated by Brady Bennett, 27, of |
Pilot Mountain. The truck was 1
owned by the Smith Fertilizer I
Company of Pilot Mountain.
Brown said Kiger was appa--1
ently enroute to his farm near .
King and was crossing the hitrfc- |
way about a mile east of K'IIJ j
when he was hit by the hc*'iiy
loaded machine. The truck was
headed north.
State Highway Patrolman Her-
man Ivey said Bennett was
charged with manslaughter and
would be given a hearing before
l
Magistrate J. P. Christian at Pin- i
nacle Saturday at 2 p. m. He!
quoted Bennett as saying the j
I
lights of an approach car blind- j
ed him and he did not see Kiger i
until just before the car struck 1
the man.
Kiger's wife died about three
years ago
Surviving are five daughters,
1 Louise, Sallie Mae, Frances, Willie
j Lewis and Carrie; four brothers j
; Preston Kiger of Winston-Salem, ! -
H. C. Kifer of Hillshoro; E. W. 1
Kiger of Rural Hall, Route 1, an l'
J. H. Kiger of Rockingham; and
two sisters, Mrs. Bessie Allen of
■ Winston-Salem and Mrs. W. B. j
Newsom of King.
The funeral was held Wednes
day afternoon at 2 o'clock at the
home at King. Burial was in I
!Woodland Cemetery at Winston-'
1= , 1
Salem.
Jolui Moorefield,
i One of Stokes* Oldest j
Citizens, Passes I
John Moorefield, aged 91, one
of Stokes county's best known
! and oldest citizens, died at noon
| Sunday at the home of a son, P. j
M. Moorefield, Lawsonville, Route
I, after a long illness.
Surviving are four daughters,
Mrs. Ed Clark, of Walnut Cove,
Route 1; Mrs. Pete Crerws of
Lebanon, Va.; Mrs. L. W. Black-'
! well of Pine Hall, and Mrs. J. A. 1
Spencer of Lawsonville, Route 1; !
and five sons, P. M. Moorefield of
Lawsonville, Route 1; G. H.
Moorefield of Walnut Cove, Route j
1; J. F. and W. T. Moorefield r»f' (
Madison, and J. R. Moorefield of L
I !
Spencer, Va.
The funeral was held Monday
afternoon at 1 o'clock at North
View Baptist Church. Elders
A. Fsgg, Watt Priddy and J. W.
( Tuttle conducted the services.
j Burial was in the family grave- .
yard.
payment of $2OO and c;
James Mitchell, o. c. i., $75 and
cost. 1
Hobart Joyce, o. c. i., $5O and t
cost. j
N. C. llooker and A. L. An-
thony, reckless driving. A. L.
Anthony, not guilty. N. C.l
Hooker, $25 and cost. |'
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, Jan. 16, 1941. ** * Published Thursdays
(An Editorial.)
THE PRESIDENT LOSES HIS TEMPER
Burton K. Wheeler is a rotten and dastardly
liar, and is guilty of saying- "the meanest and
most unpatriotic thing that has been said in this
generation."
This picturesque appraisal of the "Democratic"
Senator from Montana, who is leader of the iso
lationists in Congress, is supplied by the Presi
dent of the United States.
It was a spontaneous reply to Wheeler's Sunday
night radio speech in which he said:
"The New Deal's foreign policy as embraced in
the lend-lease bill is to plow under every fourth
American boy."
Wheeler then came back with this: "The Presi
dent has lost his temper. I hope his utterance
will not intimidate other people from expressing l
| iheir honest opinion."
In view of President Roosevelt's honest inten - !
tions and efforts to secure an all-out assistance j
for England in this very serious time when Eng
land is fighting our fight, and when all-out aid
ito England means the saving of millions of
American boys' lives, the Senator's insinuation
| stands out more than mean. I
j i
! It is regretted that the President's vocabulary J
in expressing his contempt was so circumscribed..
|There is an epithet of the street that would have,
been so much more apropos.
The President of the United States is tradition- (
ally a very discreet and dignified individual. He
j is expected to ignore even calumny and villifica
| lion. But this dastardly Wheeler implica
tion becomes an intolerable exasperation
; whose -resentment the American people will for
jgive. Wheeler's insinuation is not so much
against the President. It is an insidious attack
on the defense of America. This Roosevelt
knows. He has said time and again that he is
opposed to sending American boys to war except
in defense of this nation. He knows as millions
of Americans know that the activities of the
Fifth Columnists and the German Bundists, to'
jkeep this nation asleep, are sponsored by Wheel
jer, Rush Holt. Bennett Clark, Tydings, LaFol
lette, etc. He knows they are dangerous to the
security of this nation.
In the extreme provocation of the moment the
American people will excuse the President for
losing his temper, especially when they know
l is loss is so small compared with the loss of his
traducer whose loss is of the respect and confi
dence of the American people. Thousands of the
American people believe that Wheeler's osten -
sible concern for the boys of America
is inspired by that unholy zeal which comes from
a Reich paycheck in the pocket, and that these
obstructionists would sell their country for the
same kind of consideration that impelled Judas
1 Isacariot to betray his Savior.
; In a few days Wendell Willkie sails for Eng
land to view the situation over there for the ben
efit of his country. Mr. Willkie endorses almost
wholly the foreign policy of America and its
course for our defense ard safety under the lead
ership of President Roosevelt to use all-out help
for our friends overseas, now while help will help.
How brightly the tjv of Wendell Willkie!
shines, dimming !'• ' vapors loosed by the'
skunks who hover vex* the pools of dijioyalty,,
treachery and perfidy.
Mrs. Ella P. Martin i.e funeral services v/ere con-
Dies at Her H  wted by Rev - J - A - Joyce of
r ndy Ridge.
Mrs. Ella Poore Martin died at r3, Martin, who was a splen
her home at Kernersville and was did Chriatia " woman - was a sist *r
. . . „ , . _ , , „ , of Mrs. A. G. Sisk of Danbury
baried Monday at Peter s Creek , J
and W. J. Poore of Sandy Ridge.
Baptist Church, near Lawsonville.
She was preceded by her husband Mrs. Mary M. Gemer is able to
in death several years ago. She ( be out again after an attack of
ia survived by several children. I flu.
KING TOWN KEEPS
ON EXPANDING
NEW SERVICE STATION AND
I
CAFE TO BE BUILT—ELWOOD
HIX TO ERECT HOME—!
MARRIAGE—OTHER ITEMS.
✓ King.—Watch the town grow.—
Jan. 16.—A steam shovel is at
, work grading the site oil e a.. t
Broad street for a new servia
'station and cafe to be erected by
i
R. A. George and William Fow
ler. Actual construction will bo
| commenced just as soon as the,
i m I
grading is completed. The Kinj
Lumber Company is the contrac
tor. The new business will be
operated by Floyd Boyles of Win
ston-Salem, who has leased the
property from George and Fow
ler. A new street will be cut
through from Main branching off I
at Speace's Garage and connect- j
ing with Broad at the new sta-1
tion. This will mean a saving of j
time for people residing on 1
Broad street who wish to reach,
the business section.
I
! Ham Kiger hes returned from
Salisbury where ho spent several ■
days with relatives.
! The stork had a gravy train'
last week, only being disturbed '
on two occasions during the
whole week. These calls were: j
to Mr. and Mrs. Dempsy Smith, a |
I
son and to Mr. and Mrs. Ldwin
White, a daughter.
Elwood Kix has purchased
from Mrs. Fannie J. White, a lot
on Broad street on which he wlil
erect a new home.
Ray Boles of Fort Bragg r.,vrt
the week-end here the guest ■/.
his sifter, Mrs. A. M. Caudle on
Spruce street.
j The small daughter of Mr. ar. 1
Mrs. Tink Shore is quite sick at
their home in west King.
> Mrs. Rupert H'elsabeck is un
dergoing treatment in a Winston-
Salem hospital. j
A new home for Clyde Hunt.n I
has just been completed on the J
I
Mount Pleasant road south o: |
town.
j The following patients under
went tonsil removal operations in j
the Stone-Helsabeck CI ivc Sat-
i i
urday Rny Heath of V»Vn it
Cove and Bill Chadwick of Wira-'
»
ton-Salem.
Mrs. Annie Walker is in Rural
Hall to be at the bedside of her 1
sister, Mrs. Gabe Tuttle, who is j
quite sick.
!
| Announcement is made of the
marriage of J ' Shelton
and Miss Ed ' e * - per on
l i
Christmas e\ e >me of j
I the groom's pastor, Rev. Robert'
Helsabeck near Tobaccoville. The
I
j bride is the da of Mr. and i
Mrs. L. J. Li Advance, a '
graduate of / High School j
and the Bridegroom is the son of
Mrs. C. E. Moore of Rural Hall
and the late J. R. Shelton. He is
a graduate of King High School.
Botli contracting parties are con-!
nected with the P. H. Hanea
Knitting Company. They are at
home with Hr. and Mrs. C. E.
Moqrc at Rural Hall.
» k
Number 3,573
FOURTEEN BOYS
TO LEAVE JAN. 22
LOC AL DRAFT BOAD CALLS
i
FOR MEN TO ENTER TRAIN
| ING UNDER THE SELECTIVE
| SERVICE PROGRAM WILL
GO TO FORT BKAGG.
I
The Stokes county local draft
' :n session at Danbury this
week ciiilid fourteen men to en
ter training at Pert 3r.igg on
Janu.irv 22. 1011.
The draftees will leave Dani/jrv
at 8.30 A. M.
i The list follows.
Ralph Alesandera Ki| ,) King
Noel Clifton Dodson, Sa .dy
Ridge.
Robert Gray Smith, Tobacco
ville.
Robert William Morton, Pina
I Hull.
I Georgia Millard Joyce, Sandy
j Ridge.
Trossy William Flynt, German
ton.
Glenn Robert Tillcy, Francisco.
Raymond Franklin Neal, Wal
nut Cove.
*
Hobert Lyonel Joyce, Sandy
Ridge.
1 I
David Lee Reid, Walnut Cove.
I
Dallas Anderson Cromer, Dan
bury.
Woodn-w Love Southern, Ger
. manton.
i
John Henry MeHone, Lawson
ville.
Clarence Amos, Sandy Ridge.
i
U. ?,?. S. Meets
(Reported)
The I U:: Mi. lonary Society
Danbury met i'i regi:!;:r ses
.ii.l Jan. fi, at tho
heme i Mrs. J. Martin with
ten r.:c:i!bers present.
Although very ccld from th.i
outside, warmth was fek i.isidu
from tlie gr- .tt open fireplace in
the Martin home.
' Mrs. N. E. Wall, the president,
j presided, reading the 56th Psalm
!for the devotLnals, followed with
j prayer by Mrs. J. L. Love.
I The secretary's and treasurer'.}
reports were read and approved.
Mrs. J. L. Love and Mrs. J. S.
iTaylor review the chapters from
ou r study book, "Ministry o£
Women."
During the social hour a deli
. cious dessert course was served
to the following members:
I Mesdamcs J. S. Taylor, N. R.
Pepper, J. J. Taylor, S. P. Chris
tian, R. R. King, N. E. Wall, D.
C. Kirby, J. F. Martin and Miss
Grace Taylor.
The meeting adjourned to meet
again with Mrs. J. J. Taylor o.i
Monday evening, Feb. 3, at 7:30.
I -
HOUSEHOLD HINTS FOR
BUSY WIVES
Helpful suggestions that will
lighten housework, tested recipes
and menus will be found regular
ly in thft Housewife's Food Alma
nack, a regular feature of Tha
American Weekly, the big maga
zine distributed with the BALTI
MORE! SUNDAY AMERICAN, oq
at AM newsstands.