THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872 Volume 66
Congressman A. D.
"Lon" Folger Fatally
Injured In Car Wreck
Wednesday Morning
Mount Airy. A- D. (Lon) Fol
ger, member of Congress from
the fifth North Carolina district,
died in a hospital here about
11:30 o'clock Wednesday night
of injuries suffered in an automo
accident on a Mount Airy
street yesterday morning.
Mr. Folger was leaving town
to deliver a high school com
mencement address in Person
"county when his automobile
grazed another car, then crossed
the street and struck a tree. No
charges were brought against
I'eggs Willard, Mount Airy car
penter, who was driving the other
car.
Mr. Folger suffered head and
chest injuries, a broken ankle and
several broken ribs.
Lung Puncture Was Fatal
j Dr. M. S. Martin, the attending
physician, said a punctured lung
aad a chronic asthma condition
causfed the death of the congre~s
' in in.
Fred Folger, a nephew, said Mr.
Folger was suffering from asthma
when he arived at his home here
from Washington Tuesday night.
The nephew expressed the belief
that an attack might have been
a contributing cause of the
accident. A spray used for asth
ma was found in the automobile.
Mr.. Folger was one of the
state's most widely known and
kighly Tespected political leadtrs.
News of his injuries spread rapid
ly yesterday, and his home, the
kospital and newspaper office*
were besieged with telephone
calls throghout the day from
friends who inquired as to his
cor lition. The news of his> death
•spread equally as rapidly in
, Mount Airy last night and was
Ihe occasion of profound regret.
Native of Dobson
Alonzo Dillard Folger was born
at Dobson in 1888, a son of
Thomas W. and Ada D. Folger.
After his graduation at the
University of North Carolina, he
was admitted to the bar in 1914
and began practicing law at
Mount Airy as a member of th?
firm of Folger and Folger. He
was a judge of the superior court
in 1936 and 1937.
Ever since before he left col
lege, Mr. Folger had shown an
active interest in the Democratic
party to which he attained a posi
tion of outstanding leadership in
3936 when he was elected Demo
cratic national committeeman
from this state.
Elected to Congress •"
In 1936 he was man*""*- * the
unsuccessful gubenwtnr»-' ~nm-
Twdgn of A. H. (Sandv>
Two years later wfcen mer
Congressman Frank Hanmr* ran
j for the Senate against the incuni
: bent, Senator Robert Fl. Reynolds,
Mr. Folger, who had been a friend
and supporter of Hancock, be
came a candidate for Congress
i from the fifth district. He re
ceived the nomination over two
opponents, Marshall C. Kurfees.
Winston-Salem, and George Fulk.
of Leaksville, and was elected in
the general election the following
Noveniber. He was renominated
without opposition and re-electea
last year.
Mr. Folger was a trustee of the
Greater University of North Car
olina.
On October 13, 1919, he was
married to Miss Gertrude Reec-3.
of Dobson, who survives, together
with two sons, A. D. Folger Jr.
and Jack Folger, all of Mount
Airy; four brothers, W. P. Fol
ger, chief national bank examiner
.of Washington, D. C.; Tom Foi
gei, of Dobson; John »H. Folger,
of Mount Airy, and Hugh Folger,
of Washington, D. C., and three
sisters, Mrs. R. C. Lewellyn, of
;
Dobson; Mrs. William Hibllings
worth and Mrs. Jesse Hogan, of
Mount Airy.
Funeral plans had not been
made early today.
FIRST REPORT
Mount Airy. Fifth District
Congressman A. D. (Lon) Folger
was injured in an automobile ac
cident on South Main street here
this morning and is in Martin
Memorial Hospital in a critical
condition. Congressman Folger
suffered a fractured jaw, broken
ribs, a broken left leg, and m
suffering from lacerations of the
head and from shock.
His condition is complicated by
an asthmatic attack, hospital a'-
itendants said.
| The accident occurred about
B:3U o'clock. Congressman Folger
was driving iown South Main
street, en routu to a ;;peaking en
1 gagernent at F-uspert Hill, wh>n
the acident o-'.-urred.
His car one driven by
Nage Williard and then crossed
the street, apparently out of con
trol, and struck a tree.
Although it has nut been defi
nitely established, it is believed
that the congressman suffered an
attack of asthma, causing him tr
lose control of his car momen
tarily.
There is a possibility of a more
serious injury to the head, possi
bly a skull fracture, but hospital
authorities have not as yet de
termined this.
A report from the hospital latr>
this morning said that the con
pressman had "rallied" and wa»
conscious.
Danbnry, N. C., Thursday, May 1, 1941 * * * Published Thursdays
LET LINDBERGH GET OUT
Colonel Lindbergh resigns in a huff because
Roosevelt dubbed him an "appeaser." (
i He should feel flattered that the President j
chose such a mild epithet to describe the disloyal
ity and sabotage of a prominent American citizen, i
! Dorothy Thompson was much more frank.
She says Lindbergh is pro-German, and she
proves it by evidence that he is a friend and ad
mirer of Hitler and a hater of England.
Still more plain spoken aie millions of hard
headed loyal Americans who openly charge thai
this man who has been holding a high place in
the United States Reserve Air forces—and there
fore has been in a position to exert great influ
ence over the minds of the people—is a traitor to
the country that has harbored and trusted him.
He has consistently discouraged and dispar
aged the defense preparations now being earn
estly and effectively made. He has offered cool
and insolent gratuitous advices to the govern
mental and military authorities, even counseling
I a "peace" with the pirate nation whose "peaces"
I mean slavery and death. He has thrown out on
numerous occasions sinister insinuations that
| have emboldened and enheartened the fifth col
umnists now boring on the inside of this democ
racy for its downfall.
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In a word Lindbergh has aided and abetted the
i enemies of this government.
He therefore becomes a dangerous man, who
| has already done incalculable damage to the
morale of the American people.
Let Lindbergh catapult himself out of th(
.democracy in which he has no faith and with
which he has no sympathy. Let him get out: of
! the Lnited States and take up his residence with
the Third Reich where the air will be more con
genial, and much safer for him and his ilk when
the indignation of the American people shall
nave risen—as it is now rapidly rising-—against
saboteurs, defeatists, appeasers and
traitors.
Stokes County Health
Queen and King Chosen
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Dr. Grady, Mrs. Pauline Erwin
and Mra. Rosamond Hatch have
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declared Hazelene Smith County-
Health Queen and Vance Gordon
County Health King. This cli
maxed the splendid piece of
health work that is being don 3
by the 900 4-H club boys and
\ girls in Stokes county.
1 Hazelene Smith, daughter of
:Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Smith, Route I
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2, King is a member of the Kin..
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Senior Club and has been a cluj
member four years,
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Vance Gordon is a member of
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; the Pinnacle 4-H chub.
Other contestants in the final
: county content were queens and |
kings from the other clubs in th;
county. Myra Lee Gordon, Pin- 1
nacle club; Mary Meade McKin-'
ney, Reynolds club; Thelma
Owens, Fhmcisco club; Nancy
Priddy, LaWsonville club; Rachel
McGee, Germanton club; Dorothy
Amos and Polly Vernon, Sandy
Ridge club. Kings were: Guy
Tedder, King club; Rose Lawson,
Lawsonville club; Cecil Jeffords.
Germanton club; Wilbur Smith,
Sandy Ridge club.
Mr. and Mrs. George Zamet?or
have returned to Baltimore after
a visit with Dr. and Mrs. R. H.
Moorefleld Mrs. MooreAeld ac
companied them home.
Alford Says Hurry Up>
With Your Applications
For Crop Loans
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G. H. Alford, field supervisor
of the Emergency Crop and Peed
Loan office, advises all Stokes
county farmers who intend ap- j
plying for 1941 crop loans from
his office to do so at once, as ho
expects to announce a closing
idate for accepting 1941 applica
tions very soon.
! Applications are being written
by Mrs. G. W. McPherson at her
office in Walnut Cove; by Mrs.
, Elizabeth Jones at the Bank of
Pilot Mountain; and at Mr. A!-,
| ford's office in the court house u
Danburv.
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DuJiie Power Manager
In Town
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Sam M. Orr, of Madison, paid
us a pleasant visit Wednesday,
passing through. Mr. Orr is the
popular manager of this division!
of the Duke Power Co.'s vast in
terests, which are expanding rap
idly in all sections of the country.
This great corporation whose
service is doing so much to devel
op North and South Carolina and
other States of the South, may be
thanked for wonderful improve
ments in our county due to cheap
er and most effective light and
power and all kinds of electric
service.
DUKE POWER CO.
EXPANDS ZONE j
More New Electric Lines For
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Yadkin Township Business
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I Chans;>*>> —Adolphus Slate Im
proves—Other Kins; Items
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; King—lf it's a location, sec
Kins first,- April .10. The Pub
Power Company i.«
new power line w.i h extend-'
from Five Forks to Antioen
Church. This new lint- will give
current to about 2r> i ural home.*.
Charles Carroll, district man
ager, states that another new
line extending from Spainhower's
Mill to Perch has been approved
and that work will be commenced
just as soon as the Five For!:"
line is completed. This new line
will furnish lights to about -13
customers.
, Noel Donivant of Quaker Gao
has purchased the business cf th •
Thomas E. Smith cafe on Maiii
street and has already token
charge of the business,
j Mrs. P. J. Cntullc and daughter
Mfss Flossie B. Caudie of Wins
ton-Salem were amor. 3 the vi>\-
| tors here Saturday,
t Sanford Snider is nuite siek at
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his home west of ; \vn, his friend.«
I will regret to learn,
i Charles Rumley has returned
!to his home in Rock- Hill S. C..
j after visiting relatives and
friends here. Mr. Rumley, who
!is a son of Eugene Rumley, w-s
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reared here.
' Arthur Kirbv is placing m>-'
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terial on the site preparatory to
erecting a new home near Five
Forks.
The stork has about gone out
of business. Only one report last
week. That was to Mr. and Mis
; Dee Slate, a son.
The Shore Mercantile Company
has purchased from the Junio.'
Order United American Mechan
ics a business lot on Depot street.
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j A forest fire which broke out
; west of town Sunday afternoon
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burned over several acres of tim
bered land before it wss extin
guished.
j Junior Stone, who is attendir..;
college at Chapel Hill, spent the
week-end with his parents Dr.
and Mrs. G. E. Stone on we.
Main street.
I The work of recovering th
Moravian Church on Main strec
is nearing completion.
I Mr. arid Mrs. J. Lee Hartman
of Miami, Fla., are spending a
few days with relatives here
i
1 rhey are on their way to Green
Bay, Wis., where they will spent
the summer. Mr. Hartman was
reared here.
Thee is some improvement
the condition of Adolphus Sla*'-
who has been very sick at hi i
home in Pilot View for the pp
week.
Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Campbe''
Elmer Campbell, Ola Campbell,
and Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Boot'
went to Mt. Airy Monday an "
Tuesday to see Junior Camnbe' -
who is ill with pneumonia in Mav
tin Memorial Hospital.
Number 3,583.
STOKES BOYS IN
WORLD WAR NO. 1
Continent Sent to ( »ni|» On Nov.
24, 1917—Other News of Near
ly Twenty-Four Years Afio.
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The following items air eopi -J
from the Reporter's files of Nov,
2). 1917:
The young men whos. names
■*r.d addresses appear I.'low were
not:ri»"l Mon':.j by thi Stok".s
Draft Board that they would ho
expected to leave for Camp Jack -
son next Saturday moini)! r , Nov.
24th:
Walter M. Klynt, Madison, R. l».
Robt. D. Jackson, Weßtfield.
Roy DcCater Tuttle, German
ton.
Wildt r Q. Gresham, Charlotte,
j The men are notified to report
to the local board in Danbury on
Friday afternoon, and leave lieJ *
Saturday morning.
When these four young men
have been sent tn camp Stokes
will have furnished 13S of her
quota of I*>B men, and It is
thought that enough men to com
plete the quota will be secured
from those who have already
been examined.
The following named nill -
young men, who were exempte i
by the District Board until Dee.
Ist. will likely be sent to cam;>
on or about December Ist:
Jno. W. McKnight, Pinnacle.
! Erneset H. Rierson, Dalton.
i Gilbert J. Moses, King.
Eddie F. Webster, King.
Wm. McKinley Jeessup, Brim
i Luther T. Blackwell, Pino Hall.
Rober L. Davis. Walnut Cow.
Oso.ii' A. Moser, King.
Charlie L. Joyce, Randy Rid;.,'.
One young man, James Frank
:-outhern, was exempted by tin*
D;strict Board until Jan. 1, 191 S.
Charlie Joyce, of Peter's Creek,
who was exempted by the Dis
trict Board, has now been cer!'-
f.od by the same board and it is
likely that he will go to camp
wiili the nine young men me>i
tH»ied above.
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The Draft Board here received
l.otice this week that Stokes ha J
been given credit for two more
volunteers in the military serviiv.
Tr. L. W. Myers, a prominent
young dentist of King, has is
cepted an appointment as fit.sr
lieutenant in the Dental Resents
Corps., and is awaiting the call to
service.
Mr. Robert Boaze Tilley, of tho
West field section of Stokes, has
enlisted in the Naval Reserves
at Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. Tilley
has been division sales manager
in Florida for the Reynolds To
bacco Co. for some time.
London, Nov. 19.—Five Gorman
submarines were destroyed on
Saturday, Premier Loyd George
made known today in the house
of "ommons. i
Winston - Salem tobacco
ir"rVet experienced one of tho
'""t breaks of tobacco of tha
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