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In a radio address to the Army t
on the reasons for extension of t
selective serAce, War Secretary v
Stimpson said the Government a
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realized the personal sacrifice •)! j
additional service but was also a
consious of the danger to the U. r
S. He said "some of the most sig- jt
nificant symptoms.. which i n-; 1
variably forecast the coming of
a new Axis attact.. are occurring
in South America,.. the most dan-!
dangerous avenue of attack I
against us."
The War Department announc- (
ed that unless the international
situation becomes more serious \
it intends to release by December
10 approximately 150,000 Nation- (
al Guardsmen inducted last fall
20,000 selectees inducted last
November and December, and
10,000 Reserve officers. The re
leases will be made upon applica- 1
tion in accordance with the fol
lowing priorities: dependency and
hardship, age of more than 28 on
July 1, 1941, and marriage for
those who have served 12 months,
en completing enlistments will
also be released on request.
Aid to Britian, Russia, China
The President announced air
craft ferry and air transport ser- 1
vices to West Africa and the Mid
dle-Eastern war zone to provide
direct and speedy delivery to "a
critical point in the front against
aggression.." The route will be 1
so arranged that it will not pass j
through the zone of actual war
fare, Mr. Roosevelt said.
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The President told his press |
conference Russian needs fail in- j
to two categories: (1) materials (
immecjiately available to help
them in their summer campaign; I
(2) materials which will be avail-1
able for the spring campaign next J
year. Russia will not get lend-1
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lease aid, the President said, be-1
cause the Soviets have the neces
sary cash for materials.
The Public Health Service an
nounced a 16-membcr U. S. med-,
ical ccmmiscicn will go to China'
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to direct health measures for
250,000 Chinese building the 1,-1
700 mile railroad along the Burma
road.
Production
President Roosevelt told hb
press conference that on the ave
rage defense production is up to
estimates and in some cases ac
tually exceeds estimates. He said,
however, he still is not satisfied
with armament production. Ha
said several hundred tanks man
ufactured this year have gone to
the British; the quota of 61 anti
aircraft guns monthly is being
more than met; 160 37-mm. anti
tank guns will be delivered in
August, 260 in September and
320 in October; 340 81-mm. mor
tars will be made in August.
OPM Director Knudsen told a
press conference the rate of de-
Volume 66
Letter From
J. Moir Hawkins,
Chm. Draft Board
Each Registrant is required by j
th 3 Selective Training :tnd Ser- j
vice Act of 1940 to fill jut his
Questionnaire truthfully and re- j
turn it to this Local Board on or j
before the date shown thereon,
willful failure to do so is punish-;
able by fine and imprisonment, i
If any person knows the where-,
abouts of any of the following j
registrants and will report it to
this Office at once it will be great
ly appreciated.
J. MOIR HAWKINS, Chm.
Stokes Couty Local Board No. I
James Lamon Staley (Col.),
Rural Hall, N.C.
Ju^us' Doss Wilson, Walnut
Cove, N. C.
Gatha Odell Shelton (Col.),
Westfield, N. C.
Frank Hairston (Col.), Walnut
: Cove, N. C.
John Covington (CoL), King.
Abraham Lincoln Hill, Walnut
Cove, N. C.
William Granvale Dalton (Col.),
Walnut Cove, N. C.
George Ruffin Bolton, Walnut
Cove, N. C.
Roy C. Young, Pinnacle, N. C:
Herbert Franklin Honeycutt,
Westfield, N. C.
Eli McKenneth Mabe, Lawson
ville, N. C.
Henry Logan, PinnacJe, N. C.
fense progress in sufficient t.o
provide adequate equipment for '
the Army within six or seven |
months. He predicted again the
U. S. can out-produce any other
nation but said that the nation
is still not showing the correct
spirit. Production rather than
shipping, he said, is the greatest
j bottleneck in U. S. aid to Britian.
War Under Secretary Patter
son, speaking at Syracuse, said
the Army will not have to resort
|to broomsticks instead of weap
ons for training because "America
lis at least pushing toward peak
I production. . Tooling up will soon
jbe over. Guns, tanks and planes
are coming in daily increasing
| numbers." He cited production
increases in the past six months:
tanks, 800 percent; other vehic
les, 600 percent; machine guns,
225 percent; anti-aircraft guns,
[4OO percent; smokeless powder,
400 percent.
Civilian Supply
OPM and the office of Price
Administration ordered auto pro
duction for the 1942 model year
cut to 817,000 cars during the
four months beginning August 1,
compared with 1,560,000 during
the four months ended July 31.
General Motors, Chrysler and
Ford were asked to make a 27.6
percent cut from last year's lev
ale; Studebaker, Hudson, Nash,
Packard, Willys and Crosley, 20.2.
OPM Associate Director Hill
man said unemployment in the in
dustry wpuld be headed off by
transfer of workers to defense
plants and other defense indust
ries and the conversion of auto
(Continued on page two)
Danbnry, N. C., Thursday, August 28, 1941 * **
Tfahnvltews
about tfie AAA cuicl cr{Ae\> (. m. Iw
ICXTCNSION WORK
I c/rom. jtAa ym _ V. J \I
.• CountifJl€feiU7
F. R. Farnham, Dairy Special
ist of State College, will spend
Friday in Stokes county. A dairy 1
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meeting will be held on the farrr
of A. T. Steel in Sandy Ridge at j
9:30 a. m. (Daylight time). A|
demonstration on digging a trench J
and remodeling barn for
dairy cows will be given by the :
specialist. Dairy meetings will j
also be held at the following'
places: 11 a. m.-Milk Station in
Walnut Cove; 1:30 p. m. J. B.
Sizemore'B farm-Mr. Sizemore has
j just completed one of the few up-
right silos built in Stokes cunty'
Pasture and barn improvement,'
also silage for the milk cows, will
be the topics for discussion. Farm
ers and dairymen are urged to be
present and discuss their prob
lems with the dairy specialist.
Martin, enterprising
young man of Lawsonville, recent
ly bought two registered Guern
sey heifers.
Sam Mickey completed a large
stave silo this week. Silage for
his herd of cattle will be stored
l in it. This is the first modern
silo to be built in Stokes county.
J. B. Sizemore has a similar silo
under construction.
| J. A. Robertson of Lawsonville
believes in diversified farm
ing. "My milk and poultry check
made it possible for me to operate
my farm on cash basis," state;!
Mr. Robertson.
T. R. Nelson of Reynolds com
munity has been adding more
milk cows to his herd. He is sel
ling milk to the local milk stat
ion.
O. F. McCrary, District Agent,
| was here Tuesday. He suggeste :
all possible thought be given the
| three F's-Food, Feed, Fertility,
iby farmers of Stokes.
Carl Ray Pell, a 4-H club mem
ber of Pinnacle community, ha ;
a purebred pig and calf. His fath
er is a producer of fine watet
mellons and seed corn of Southern
Beauty strain.
Milk and egg prices are going
up! For this reason farmers are
urged to take every precaution
possible to obtain high product
ion this fall and winter. Proper
feeding and housing encourages
more milk and eggs at less cost.
For dairy cows, silage makes an
excellent winter feed. For poultry
I proper housing (is an important
factor in securing maximum egg
production.
Farmers are urged to take ad
vantage of recent rains and pre
pare for fall and winter gardens.
Leading tobacco famers are
destroying tobacco stalks immed
iately after all leaves have been
. harvested. This aids in the con
i trol of tobacco diseases and in
sects on the following year's crop.
Mount Airy Attorney
Heads Bar Unit
Mount Airy.— Archie B. Car- j
l
ter, well-known young Mount >
Airy attorney, is the new presi-, 1
dent of the twenty-first district
Bar Association, includes j
all attorneys in the state's twenty-1 1
first judicial districq. He was j
elected at the regular meeting of' ]
the group held at Dobson this I
week-end.
The new bar head is the young -1
est son of Judge W. F. Carter j
veteran Mount Airy attorney, I
and has for several years been |
associated with his father in the j'
practice of law. Other officers'
elected at the same time included j
Floyd Osborne, of Leaksvijle, j
vice-president, and A. J. Elling
ton, of Danbury, secretary and
treasurer.
| Hon. A. L. Brooks of Greens
boro delivered the principal ad
' dress for the occasion, speaking
Jon "My Reminiscences at the j
Bar." He was introduced to the I
' group by Congressman John H.
! Folger, who is ,*,w at his home
in Mount Airy on a brief vacation
from his duties in Washington.
' The meeting was presided over j
by E. F. Upchurch of Yancey-1
Lson delivering the address of Wel-
I ville, with R. A. Freeman of Dob-
Icome. the response being by Dal-1
las Kirby of Danbury. After the
'address of the occasion by Mr.
' Brooks, Wilson Barber of Mount
I Ajry presented appropriate res-
I
I olutions to honor Congressman
A. D. Folger, W. L. Reece, O. E:
Snow and C. M. Bernard, Surry
attorneys who have passed away
I since the previous meeting. The
meeting closed with a dinner ia
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; the Dobson Woman's Club buil
ding. The next meeting will be
held at Leaks ville.
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Surry Court Clerk
Is Seriously 111
1 Mount Airy.—Frank T. Llewel
lynT aged 70, veteran clerk of
court in Surry county, is sei"frrjs
ly ill in Martin Memorial Hospital,
| where he is undergoing treatment
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for a stroke of paralysis suffered
late Saturday.
j Llewellyn who has been clerk
of superior court in Surry county
for more than 18 years was ip
parently in his usual health Sat
jurday afternoon before he suffer
ed the stroke, which paralyzed
his entire right side and his pow
ers o speech. Hospital authorities
reported Monday afternoon thr
there had been little change in
Mr. Llewellyn's condtlion whijth
was regarded as serious.
Mrs. H. Ward of Walkertown,
and Mrs. H. J. Flynn of Bethesda
community, were Tecent visitors
at the Methodist Parsonage.
Published Thursdays
Prices Rise Still Higher
As Eastern Belt Opens
Fourteen Flue-Cured Markets A v e r a jr c $lO
Better Than Last Year's Opening- Stokes
Crop Soon To Be Ready
Stokes county tobacco farmeis|
now finishing curing a light, but i
excellent crop, await with pleas- |
urable anticipation the opening J,
of their belt's markets Sept. 16. j]
The news comes today that s
prices on the 14 flue-cured tobac- j 1
Co markets of North Carolina's |
new bright belt appeared as 'i
strong if not stronger yesterday,
than on Tuesday, when 8,638,7391:
pounds were sold in the opening j
day break at an average of 27.75
cents, a gain of 10.75 cents a
| pound over the average for the
i opening week of last season.
The state and federal agricul
ture departments, which released
j these figures said averages for in
dividual markets ranged from a
low of 24.90 cents a pound to 31.1
72.
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COUNTY'S TAX RATE
REMAINS AT $1.63
The Beard of County Commis
sioners in special session here
have fixed the county tax rate at
SI.G3 for the year 1941. This fig-1
i j
!ure is the same as last year's rate. |
| No other business was transact-'
i
ied by the commissioners at the
meeting, which was attended by
! the full board: Howard Gibson,
;
j chairman; Harvey Johnson and
J. A. Joyce.
Recruiting Office For
Navy To Open
At Danbury
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11. T. Carroll, Chief Machines:
,'Mate, U. S. Navy Recruiting Of
ficer from the Greensboro llecruit
jing Staff will establish a tempo
rary ollice in the Post Ollice buihl-
I ing in Danbury, N. C. on Thurs
day and Friday, September -it .1
and sth. Ollice hours will be fro:u j
8:30 a. m. until 4:30 p. m.
Mr Carroll will also accept mo.i
from enlistment in the U. S. Naval
■
Reserves to serve during the pres
ent national emergency. Men
| who are between the of IV
and 49 years ti:d arc physicalh
| and morally qualified .-.re eli-
Igible for the United States Naval
j Reserves.
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Miss Woodruff Honored
At Luncheon
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Mrs. Elizabeth M. Heath was
1 hostess at a lovely luncheon at
the home of Mrs. N. E. Wall hon
oring Miss Grace Woodruff who
leaves September 1 fo r Charlotte
t where she has a position as case
L worker at the Thompson Orphan
-1 age. The guests were the person
nel of the county welfare depart-
* * * Number 8,599.
| Warehouses, almost bursting ;it
t the seams with heavy offerings
gave tangible evidence of grower*
j jubilation at the prices, which
j meant prospects for a better sea
son than 1941, when the average
| was 17.56 cents a pound.
| Upward trends were reported
' yesterday at some markets, and
j this was believed to be geneai;
for it long has been a custom for
j prodcers to bring inferior offer
ings first and get a view of price
trends.
Prices ranged from two cents
for the poorest grades to 50 cents
a pound for the best types.
Bidding generally was brisk.
One official said Tuesday was
the best day in his market's his
tory, and ac ouple of others said
i it was the best in ten years.
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Mrs. Eva M. Mafce,
Native Of Stokes,
Dies At McFarland
Wadesboro. — Eva Mao
Mabe, aged 3ti, Wife ol' Wallace
Mabe, farmer of McFarlan, died
at their home Sunday evening.
Mrs. Mabe, a native of Stokes
county, is survived by her hus
band and live children, and by
three brother;-, C. B. and J. O.
Fl.vnn of Walnut Cove, and one
sister, Mrs. Sadie Shelton, of Win
ston-Salem.
The funeral was held at Wal
nut Cove Cemetary at 3 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. llubah Smith, Mary M.
(icrner, Mary Williamson of Pine
Hull, and Lucille Martin ol Yaney
ville are spending the Labor Dny
weekend at Carolina Bea h.
ment: Miss Ella 1>;UIUII;\ Miss
N'annie Jones, Mis. Edwin T;i.vlo»,
and the honoree. Miss Woodruff.
Mrs. X. E. Peltier, former mem
ber of the staff, and Mrs. Wall.
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