THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872
SCHOOL BUS CRASH 1
i INJURES CHILDREN
ACCIDENT OCCURRED NEAR
FiNEY GROVE MONDAY
CAR OF ROY HOLE DEMOL
ISHED IN COLLISION.
A number of children were hurt
Monday evening when the bus
from the Danbury school collided
with a car driven by Roy Hole
near Piney Grove.
The Reporter's informant gives
a the facts as follows:
A child of Chester Flinchum
sustained two broken ribs. Ves
ter Bennett, son of Howard Ben
nett, and Troy Priddy, son of
Frank Priddy, were hurt. Odell
Smith, who was in the car with
young Hole, suffered a broken
noSe.
The pick-up truck of Hole's wa3
' practically demolished. The school
bus was not practically injured.
* Blame for the accident is not
yet fixed. It is learned that Hole
will bring an action for damage
to his car.
The school bus wlu driven by
Ellis Fagg who it is stated has
been invloved in other accidents,
having turned over a school bus
near Moore's Springs a year ago.
No children were on the car when
'this accident happened.
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HOG IN RIVER - *
V- As Lem Mabe and Willis Ashby
were crossing Seven Island ford
bridge Monday, on their way to
Danbury, their attention was at
tracted by something in the water
just below the bridge.
The river is very low and tie
* water is very clear.
Oi investigation they found i
was a dressed hog that had been
overboard by somebody.
They reported the matter to the
authorities here, and the meat, ap
parently entirely fresh end uncon
taminated, was BaJvaged by of
ficers, who suspected some kind
of foul play. AH the meat from a
200-pound hog was there except
the midlings, and is now on ex
hibition at the jail.
January Court Term
Is Continued
Until April
The usual term of criminal court
'theld in January has been consol
idated with the spring term which
is held in April.
This move was made here first
Monday at the regular meeting of
the Stokes county Commissioners
where postponment was made due
to the small number of cases on
the docket.
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R. T. Spencer Assigns
• To Creditors
In a proceeding before the clerk
of the court here Wednesday, R.
T. Spencer of Lawsonville made
an assignment of his property for
the benefit of his creditors.
At the late term of court a judg
ment of SI,OOO was given Mrs.
James Martin against Spencer for
SI,OOO, which it is stated has pri
' &rity over the assignment.
Volume 66
ALEX JOYCE
TAKES OWN LIFE
PATRICK COUNTY, VA. MAX I
INVOLVED IN STOKES COUN- 1
TY MICA MINE MUDDLE, |
[ SUICIDES ON ACCOUNT OF
ILL HEALTH.
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Alex Joyce, aged 67 of Patrick
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county, Va., fired a bullet through ]
his own heart Saturday. The Cor- ■
' oner, Frank Burton, investigate.!
the death and ruled it suicide. j
In tho la3t issue of the Reporte.
appeared a story of the Stokes
county Hawkins mica mine mud-
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die, in which Mr. Joyce figured.
He had bought a third interest in
l
the property of Henry Whitake.
years ago at the price of $2,000.
Recently Mr. Joyce's interest ha'i
been bought by Fred Pepper oi
Walnut Cove.
The following dispatch from
Stuart, Va., tells of the suicide:
Alex Joyce, 67, Stuart Va
♦
Route 2, died at his home at 0:30
| o'clock yesterday morDing im
| mediately after firing a pistol shot
through his heart,
j Sheriff Frank Mays of Patrick
j county and coroner Frank Burto.i
! investigated the death and ruleil
lit suicide.
Joyce had several months ago
attempted to take his own life by
cutting his throat, officials said.
.11l health was blamed for the
act.
Surviving are two sons, Watson
Joyce, of Stuart, Route 3, and
iManly Joyce, of the home; two
brothers, John and Watt Joyce, of
Peters Creek, Va.
Funeral services will be con
ducted Monday afternoon at 1
o'clock from Aarons Corner Prim
itive Baptist Church. Elders R. L.
Dalton and W. J. Brown will be in
charge of the services. Burial will
be in the family plot near Claude
ville, Va.
Child Burned
Severely When
Clothes Blaze
Madison. —Severly burned when
his clothes caught fire from
matches with which he was play
ing, a two-year-old Sandy Ridge
boy was reported in serious con
; dition in Leaisvilje Hospital last
night.
j Attendants at the hospital said
.the condition of the lad, Dennie
I Ray Amos, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Luke Amos, appeared "favorable
at the moment" but that he was
badly burned about the chest,
hands and arms.
The child was sped first to Mad
ison from his home at Sandy Ridge
about 12 miles away and then,
' after examination by local doctors,
was taken by ambulance to the
Leaksville Hospital.
Details of the burning could not
be learned immediately, but re
ports said the lad's clothing ignit
ed while was playipg with matches
yesterday afternoon.
Attorney P. W. Glidewell of
Reidnvllle waa here at the court
house Wednesday.
Danbnry, N. C., Thursday, Dec. 4, 1941 ** * * Published Thursdays
'An Editorial.)
THE UNCONQUERABLE VAfcTNESS
OF RUSSIA
When Napoleon reached Moscow, the Kremlin
was burning.
The master military genius of the world had
half a million soldiers at his heels.
But the Russian army was gone, and the civil
population of the great city, with the exception
of old men and women and children, was gone
disappearing into the giant spaces of northern
Russia.
Just then the terrible Russian winter began
to descend.
Napoleon started his retreat.
Harried by sickness of his men, desertions and
death, the great retreat began back across the
limitless wastes of snow and ice and cruel biting
i winds that swept in unending lethal waves.
When France was finally reached again, less
than ten thousand of th at mighty host were liv
ing. More than 490.000 soldiers had perished. And
with the loss of his army went Napoleon's empire.
Ah, the unconquerable vastness of Russia.
Can Hitler survive the lethal waves of the un
conquerable Russia?
After more than five months at the head of the
greatest military machine the world has ever
seen, he still is outside of Moscow, Leningrad,
Rostov. He has not had a look-in.
Millions of the flower of his legions have fallen
in the great enterprise of conquering Russia
and Russia is still unconquered.
On many fronts the Germans are retreating.
On some fronts there is,a rout.
Did God lead Napoleon to his downfall in Rus
isia?
Is God leading Hitler to his doom in the terrible
wastes of unconquerable Russia?
j Has destiny made Russia the rock on which the
(ambition of ruthless conquerers shall be shatter
led to their destruction?
CHURCHILL ASKS 3,000,000
CONSCRIPTS, INCLUDING WOMEN
London.—W in st on Churct.ill
called upon the natio* Tuesdav
i
for 3,000,000 more military con
scripts and for power to require
young women to serve in uniform.
"The crisis of equipment is
largely over," he told the House
iof Commons. "The crisis of man-
I
! power and womanpower is at hand
and will dominate the year 1942."
.Specifically, the prime minister
I announced the government pro
i pared with the present limits of
age limits to 18 1-2 to 50, as com
pared with ihe present }imits of
19 to 41.
The method of reservation from
military service is to be changed
from the present system of ex
emption by occupational blocs to
one of individual deferment
Henceforth, said Churchill, "the
sole test should be the importance
to the war effort of the work or.
which they are engaged.
Churchill also asked parliament
for power "to require women to
serve in the uniform of the auti'.-
itry services of the crown or civi]
defense," but he wiiJ 'bat "for
some time to come' this compul
sion would be apt'.lied rnly to
married women between U,P ages
of 20 and 30.
| He promised that these women
would not be compelled to serve
"in the lethal of combatani
i
branches."
j The prime minister said that ad
vancement of t':e uupor iigo limit
.of from 41 to 50 would bring un
der review nearly 2,V.'0 000 rn-n
and that the new lower age limit
of 18 1-2 would add 70,000 recruits
in 1942. The first half of the class
i
of 1923, he announced, would re-'-
i
ister a week from Saturday.
Churchill said also that con
scripts under 20 would be sent
overseas "if the house releases
! the government from its under
takings" not to do so, and that
boys and girls from 16 to IS
would be registered and encourag
ed to find places in the national
service.
Of the older conscripts he said
"we may later have to advance
another decade," and recalled thatj
the upper limit in the last war
was 57.
WILL BE LIGHTED
AT CHRISTM AS
FINE ARTS CLL'B TO ERECi
TREE ON COURT HOUSE I
SQUARE AS MEMORIAL TO
MRS. KATHLEEN TAYLOR
PROGRAM ARRANGED FOI
XMAS.
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The Ladies Fine Arts Club of
Danbury will erect a Canadian
I
spruce or hemlock on the court \
house square as a memorial to
Mrs. Kathleen S. Taylor.
The tree, which will be 8 or 10
I
feet high and will be planted by
| a nursery company with their
'guarantee that it will live, will be
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electrically lighted at Christmas
| On Monday a committee from |
the club appeared before the board
of commissioners hpre at its reg
ular meeting and obtained permis
sion to plant the tree on the east
side of the square, half way be
tween the maple on the corner
and the entrance steps.
i
It was always a favorite hobby
with the late Mrs. Taylor that the
club should erect a tree on the
. IV'W '• >
square to be lighted at Xmas for
the pleasure of the children oi
the county. After Mrs. Taylor's
untimely death, the club expressed
its wishes to carry out her idea, I
and to make the tree a memorial
to her, she having been one of the
founders of the club.
The club members have appoint
ed a committee to arrange for i
suitable program in celebration oi
the event at Christmas,
j The tree will add to the attrac
tions of the square and will be ap
preciated Sy the public no les
than by the friends of Mrs. Taylor.
KING NEWS
v '•
j The many friends of E. P. New
t-urn, promiaen'. mercnint and ter
mer Reporter correspondent here
'will regret to learr that he re
mains critically ill ii. the City
Hospital, Winston-Sa'em. Ho has
been in the hospital since early
I
Wednesday morning. E. P.. as he
■ is generally known to his friends
[ has been in oPfi'.n >ut, bu4>n ss
i longer than any 0.-er merchant
; here.
! The following births were im
ported here this week: To Mr. urd
Mrs. Charlie Clark, n son; To Mr.
and Mrs. Johny Johnson, a son;
To Mr. and Mrs. Johny McCiellan,
a son; To Mr. and Mrs. Pc'e
Franklin, a son; To Mr. and Mrs.
Owen Smith, a son.
J*" Nfrs. David Lawson of Rural
Hall underwent a tonsil removal
i
operation at the Stone Helsabeck
j Clinic here Friday,
j Relatives here have been advis
ed that Private T. D. (Freck) Tut-
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tie of the U. S. Army, who is sta
tioned at Fort Clayton, Panama,
has been promoted to company
| mechanic and transferred to tho
motor pool.
| Mr. C. D. Slate, Sr., who has
I
been spending a week with his son,
v. D., Jr., in Roanoke, Va., has re
turned to his home here.
Principal Parker of the Fran
cisco school was in town Monday.
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LAW SUITS BREW
OVER MICA MINE
PATRICK CO!'N'TV HEIRS OF
ALEX JOYCE START ACT
ION—OPERATION OF MINK
STOPPED BY INJUNCTION
Since the death by suicide of
Alex Joyce, former part owner of
the Hawkins mica mine near San
dy Ridge in Stokes county, litigi-
I
tion has developed over the titio
to the property.
One of the of Jo yc i\
through his attorneys Frank Bur
ton of Stuart, Va., and I). C. Kir
by of Dan'oury, has filed a coiu
pliint before Clerk of the Court
I
Tuttle here alleging that his fatii
|i:r was not competent to convey
ais interest in the property, bein^ -
of unsound mind and memory. It
will be recalled, as reported by
this newspaper last week, that
Fred Pepper and A. J. Ellington
bought the rights of Alex Joyc •
for the sum of one dollar. Now
it is reported that Joyce had
previously conveyed his interest
to his wife, who lives in Oklahoma.
It is stated that Pepper and El
lington went to Oklahoma and
purchased this lady's interest lor
$30.00
Now Wie operators of the mine
who live in Mitchell county, and
who obtained possession of the
property by paying the taxes, have
been stopped from further activi
ties by an injunction obtained by
Pepper and Ellington before .1
judge at Rockingham court.
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HEADS STUDENTS
Miss Julia Pepper of Walnut
Cove, student at Woman's College.
Greensboro, was elected president
'of the Episcopal College students
j Conference of the Diocese of
j North Carolina at the closing ses
sion of the fifth annual conference
at Raleigh Sunday. Other officers
elected included: Milton Galarn
i
son, St. Augustine, vice-president -
Phillip Griffith, University of
North Carolina, secretary and Wil
liam Riedell, Duke, publicity man
ager.
| Tax Listers Drawn
As Commissioners Meet
The tax listers for the tax-list
, ing season which begins January
Jlst were appointed here first Mon
day by the Stokes Board of coun
ty Commissioners.
I The list is as follows:
H. G. Alley, Danbury; James
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; L Moore, Peter's Creek; S. L. Law
j rencc, Big Creek; Ralph Ward.
Snow Creek; J. R. Williams, Bea
-1
. ver Isiand; T. M. Smith, Quaker
Gap; J. E. Mitchell, Meadows; J.
, C. Craig, Sauratown; C. L. Car
roll and W. B. Lane, Yadkin.
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COMMISSIONERS MEET
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! The board of Stokes Count}*
Commissioners met in regular ses
sion here Monday. The board con
sists of H. O. Gibson, chairman.;
Harvey O. Johnson and J. A..
Joyce.