THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872
THIS WEEK
IN DEFENSE
Aid to Britian, Russia
Leni-Lec.se Expediter Harri
man, returned from Moscow con
ferences on aid to Russia, report
ed to the President that the Rus
aian Government and people are
determined to fight on at all costs
but the Soviet armies "need sub
stantial quantities of mixtions
and raw materials." Treasury Sec
retary Morgenthau advanced th*
Soviet Union another $30,000,-
000 against gold Russia is sending
to this country. The Defense Sup
plies Corporation authorized pay
ment of $36, 889,000 to the Rus
sian-owned Amtorg Trading Com
pany for imports of manganese
and other materials necessary to
U. S. defense indpustry.
The Federal Loan Agency an
nounced disbursement to Great
Bi*tian of another $100,000,000
on the $425, 000,000 loan to that
country for which Britian put up
as collateral British-owned Ameri
can factories and investments.
1 Both Houses of Congress pass
ed the $5,985,000,000 new lend
lease appropriation anc sent it to
| con ference to adjust minor dif
ferences.
U. S. Ships Sank
The 9,000-ton freighter LE
HIGH, flying the American flag
on a run from Spain to West
Africa to pick up a cargo, was
* sunk in the South Atlantic on
October 19. All hands were rescu
ed. The American-owned freighter
BOLD VENTURE was sunk sev
eal hundred miles svjth of Icclaro
October 16. The President told his
press conference the Binking of
the LEHIGH! seems to establish
that merely keeping ships from
actual combat areas no longer
protects them.
The Navy Depatment announc
ed the destroyer KEARNY, "at
tacked by a submarine undoubted-
ly German" on Jctober 17„ reach
ed port with 11 crew member 3
missing, one critically injured and
eight injured slightly,
f The House passed and sent to
the Senate a resolution author z
ing the arming of American mei
chant ships.
Production Progress
OPM Production D-rector Har
rison issued the following sumary
of production progress:
Ships—all Navy and Maritime
' Commission contracts are ahead
of schedule and by the end of
+ November one 10,000-ton cargo
ship will be turned out every day;
Bombers —designs ready for mass
production and four gigantic new
plants will be in operation by next
summer; Tanks —production being
doubled by farming out to make
2,000 a month; Powder and Small
'Arms—abreast of schedule with
SO of 70 planned plants now in
(Continued on back page)
Volume 66
LOCAL BOARD
CALLS 15 MEN
FOR INDUCTION
Below are listed the names and
addresses of registrants who have
been called for induction from
Stokes County Local Board No. 1
under call No. 19, November ft,
1941.
Moir Wade Pruitt, Lawsonville.
Euel Edward Lawson, Francisco
George Russel Brown, Sandy
Ridge.
Meggs Rudolphus Hooker, Fran
cisco.
Clyde Grey Kirby, King.
James William Hall, Westfield.
James Richard Hill, Sandy
Ridge.
Fitzhugh Lee Bennett, Rural
Hall.
Otis Mabe, Walnut Cove.
James Henry Fagg, Walnut
Cove.
James Ralph Mabe, Walnut
Cove.
Moses Leonard Durham, West
field.
Claude Wilmoth, Danbury.
Willie Clifton Mabe, Danbury.
Paul Henry White, Germanton.
Ellen Kate and Marjorie Pepper
left today for Boston, "Tdass.,
where they will visit N. E. Pepper
who is a patient in the New Eng
land Baptist Hospital. Mr. Pepper
will accompany them home Sun
day.
' JO one excuses a strong, grown-up man for failing his responsi
x bilities as a man. A nation, too, stands like a man and faces
the world.
There are those who think the United States is not grown-up.
To them ours is a child nation, fit only to play alone in the back
yard, carefully avoiding the other boys who want to play for our
marbles.
Other nations have fallen with that epitaph. m
• • • •
' From the New York skyline to the Golden Gate Bridge, the
United States is a giant power crammed into a continent, we need
only to believe it, as the Axis dictators believe it, to become the
powerhouse of freedom.
We have the resources. We have the food. We have the ma
chines. We have the men.
The story of our power can be ton! in a few symbolical pictures.
'You see below an oil refinery, a field of wheat, a mass production
iMBmSp i MnMffnfliiff . ,A - • wWt/'i
f ■HP n|ffl|L . j
nkisi BLJh iDj
4i XCwflnw StasdJ for W«WWK;
Danbury, N. C., Thursday Oct. 30, 1941 * * *
faJunltews ;
ahoui tAe AAA a/td. others r W. jjfe!
CXTCNSION WORK VpWftftTCfl'
/■ c/rom jtA* a
nwfiy/y /Jat>*i±r
A farm production campaign
for 1942 providing for a complete i
mobilization of American agricul
ture to adjust production to do
mestic needs for national defense j
and to the needs of the nations
resisting aggression was recently
announced.
The campaign will be under i
the supervision of State and coun- j
ty USDA Defense Boti.-ds which'
| are made up of repi*. tentative*
of all Departme i*. of Agricul'uie
I
agencies in tho heH Production
goals for all essential farm com-'
modifies have been established.
They have been established on
the basis of a thorough canvass
of the needs for improved nutri
tion in this country and the needs
of the nations that still stand be
tween this country and Hitler.
Every farmer in Stokes county
will be contrasted by local farmer
committeemen under the supervis
ion of USDA Defense Boards and
' will assißt with individual farm
i
plans to determine the extent to
I which each farm can contribute j
America: Powerhouse of Freedom
to agriculture's task in national
defense.
j The suggested minimum Stoke?
county goals for national defense
i
in 1942 are as follows:
4 percent increase in milk, 01
824 pounds; 3 percent increase
in cows, or 130; 11 percent in
crease in eggs, or 83,310 dozen
and 16 percent increase in hay,
or 1500 acres.
| The total American foodstuffa
I
for the British in 1942 will amount
to 261,432 cars, or enough to make
up a train that would reach from
Washington to Los Angeles.
| As part of the exports, 5,000-
000,000 pounds of milk are scbed
i uled for the English next year,
rhis will require 41,666 cars,
enough to make up a 378 mile
train.
Canned poultry in the amount
of 18,000,000 pounds would re
quire 600 cars at the rate of
30,000 pounds to the car. These
cars would stretch out five mi.'cs.
Government officials cxy>ect to
ship across «»U) ,OC"'.JOC
pounds of po"k x sri. F'}u--
ing 30,000 pounds to the car,
i this means that 50,000 cars will
aircraft factory, and defense workers going cheerfully to o~eir jobs.
And you see the Capitol in Washington, symbol of democracy,
power behind the powerhouse of freedom. Because it is our driv
ing American spirit that makes it go. Our American conscience,
our American dream, our American devotion to the Four Freedoms.
We are grown up enough to believe that every man has the
right to live decently; free from discrimination because of color,
creed or place of birth; free to worship God as he sees fit; and free
to speak, to say how he shall be governed. These are the things we
believe in. And we are man-sized in these beliefs. a
» • • •
We are man-sized, too, in strength. But we have not yet grown
up in confidnce, in the conviction of that strength.
We need conviction We need a nation united in confidence.
We need only faith and the will to take our due place in a free
world, to put the powerhouse of freedom into high gear. And God
grant them to us now, because we may not come this way again.
Published Thursdays
D. A. VVhitt,
Pilot Mtn's. Oldest,
Buried Wednesday
Funeral services for David
Alexander Whitt, aged 92, Pilot
Mountain's oldest citizen, who
noon, was held at 2:30 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon, at Volun
teer Primitive Baptist Church.
Elder J. W. Brown was i'l
charge. Burial was in the churci
; graveyard.
Survivors include one son, Wal
ter Whitt, of High Point; and one
I daughter, Mrs. Ellen Riser, of Pi
' lot Mountain.
Mr. Whitt lived at the present
home place at Pilot Mountain fo:
more than 75 years, coming there
| with his father, Rillie Whitt,
'shortly after the close of the wa r
. between the states Mr*. Whiti.
,the former Miss fusan George,
died several years ago.
be required to transport these
products to shipping points. Thb
train would total 454 miles.
A 750 mile trainload of fresh
fruits likewise is intended for
trans-ocean shipping. The 1,250,-
000 tons would require 83,333
cars is 15 tons were shipped in
each car.
Canned vegetables amounting
to 2,500,000 cases will swell the
grand total of foodstuffs. If 1,000
cases were shipped in each car.
this would require 2,500 cars, or
train 22 miles long.
* * * *Number 3,608
J. W. MITCHELL
KILLED BY AUTO
King—Mild climate the year
round —Oct. 30. J. Wilson Mitch
ell, aged about 70, was hit by an
autoniub ie in front of his home
on West Broad street Saturday
night and died a few hours later
in a Winston-Salem hospital. The
deceased is survived by the wid
ow, two'sons and two daughters.
Charles R. Carroll who under
| went a tonsil removal operation
jin the City Hospital, Winston
j Salem Monday is getting alontj
nicely.
| The following births were re«
corded here last week:
Mr. and Mrs. William Mont
gomery a daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Colonel E. Avers a daughter, Mr,
and Mrs. William Denny a daugh
ter, Mr. and Mrs. Pete Rutledga
a daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Clarenca
Smith a son. Mr. and Mrs. Wea
Ashby a son, Mr. and Mrs. Henry;
Boose a son, Mr. and Mrs. Vesta
Cole a son and Mr. and Mrs. Shel
ton Boose a son.
Last rites for Mrs. Julius Gor
don, aged 92 were held at Mourn
Pleasant Church Wednesday. Sur
viving are three daughters, Mrs.
Ida Lindsay of High Point, Mrs.
i
Columbus Moore of Rural Hall
and Miss Eliza Gordon of Tobac
co lie, formerly of Washington,
D. C.
Rev. and Mrs. David Weinland
have returned from a honeymoon
trip to Ma'ne and New Hamp
shire. They are at home on We3X
Main street.
Mr. and Mrs. William Thomas
and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Thomas
spent the weekend wRh relatives
at Laurel Hill Scotland county.
R. B. Reynolds left Sunday fo.'
Wilmington where he goes to ac
cept a position in defense work.
Charlie Ross Newsum Jr. is
taking a course in electric weld
ng preparatory to entering de
fense work.
Worth Kiser has returned to
I his home after being discharg
ed from the U. S. Army by reason
of expiration of term of enlist
! ment.
The following patents under
i went ti>:i?;l removal opciatioti i
: hei e !ast Week:
i Everett Bulejack of Rural Hall,
W.'.yne Slate of Walnut Cov •,
Doyle Alexander of Point,
ML-s Myrtle Smith of Gennanton,
Miss Vera e Marie Priddy of West
, field and John Calvin Newsum oi
King.
| Relatives here have been not li
ed of the arrival of T. D. Tuttl *
Jat Fort Clnton, Panama Canal
Zone where he will be stationed.
Tuttle is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Gabe Tuttle of Rural Hall.
The Neal Boone Post American
Leg'on of Walnut Cove met with
local veterans here last week. At
this meeting a county-wide com
mittee was appointed to mark the
graves of all veterans of all wars
wh ofle relatives will furnish tho
committee with the names of vet
erans and the outfit* In which
they served.