THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872
- THIS WEEK
IN DEFENSE
Navy Secretary Knox, return
ing from a plane trip to Hawaii,
reported the U. S. armed services
there were not on the alert against
the first Japanese attack. Mr.
Knox said that the Navy lost one
capital ship, a training ship, three
destroyers, and one mine-layer
I* and suffered damage to other
ships which will take from several
days to several months to repair.
He reported 2,720 Navy officers
and men were killed and 656
wounded.
The President appointed Sup"-
reme Court Justice Roberts head
of a special board of inquiry. Pend
f ing completion of the inquiry
ranking officers of the Hawaiian
% command were relieved of duty
and replaced. In the shift, Admi
ral Nimitz replaces Admiral Kim
mel as Commander-in-Chief of the
U. S. Pacific Fleet and Lt. Gen.
Emmons, Air Forces, relieved Lt.
Gen. Short as commanding officer
of the land forces in the Islands.
The War Front
War and Navy Department
during the week re
ported the sinking of one enemy
transport and "probably", one £j
stroyer, severe damage to another
# enemy transport, the sinking of
a motor ship, capture of a fishing
vessel, continued successful re
pulse of enemy attempts to take
Wak and Midway, and continued
bombing of the Philippines.
Lend-Lease Aid
j*
War Secretary Stimson issued o
statement that although, lend
lease aid momentarily lessened
4ifter the Pearl Harbor attack, the
increased war effort "must inevi
tably increase rather than dimin
ish shipments to those who are
fighting our common enemy." The
President reported to Congress
that aid had increased from $lB,-
000,000 in March to $283,000,000
in November —to make a total of
$1,202,000,000 in aid extended to
December 1.
Army
Secretary of war Stimson told
his press conference that although
the $10,000,000,000 supplemental
k defense bill provides for an in
crease of the Army to about
2,000,000 men, the War Depart
ment is "trying to develop ma
chinery by which our Army can
increase steadily without limits"
and with "the least possible dis
turbance to our life."
Selective Service
Congress passed a bill calling
for registration of all men between
*lB and 65 and making those from
20 to 44, inclusive, liablt for mil
itary service. War Secretary Stim
son told a press conference volun
tary enlistments will be suspended
as soon as the present rush of |
patriotism" is over. All further
manpower will then be obtained
by the selective service system.
The Census Bureau estimated the
S. and the Allied pojrara, far
Volume 66
BUCK WALL
IS SAFE
EDGAR WALL, JB., 16 SAFE
IN HAWAH. '
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Wall of
Walnut Cove have rruved a let
ter from their son, Ecgai Wall
Jr., known to his u
"Buck," who is stav.ontd at
Wheeler Field air base in Hawaii.
Wall has been in the air corps
for one year and has been in Ha
waii for nine months. He wrote
relatives he was safe and "feeling
fine" despite the wrath of the Jap
aneSe* iM jL;i
Lt. and Mrs. W: S: Hunt, Jr:, of
Rockingham are here with Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Hall.
163,887,000 men of fighting age
—lB to 35 —while the Axis nations
have 28,560,000.
Navy
The Navy Department author
ized all navy yards to make maxi
mum use of extra shifts and over
time work to rush construction.
' 11 Navy employees were ordered
jOn a 48-hour week. Four ships
.were launched: the USS COLUM
BIA —a 10,000-ton cruiser—and
three destroyers.
Priorities
OPM extended its ban on the
of hew auto tires and tubes
to January 4 and said a rationing
program will go into effect Janu
ary 4 providing tire 3 only for es
sential commercial and public
welfare activities. OPM also an
nounced full control of all tin in
this country or en route by water;
ordered manufacturers of ranges,
'stoves and other cooking applian
' ctrfft&'curtau use of iron and steel;
ruled sheepskin can be used only
on OPM order; simplified priority
' procedure to permit extension of
gratings by manufacturers them
selves on orders for less than $5OO
'worth of materials.
Labor Supply
Federal Security Administrator
McNutt announced unemployment
cfue to material shortages will
probably reach a peak in the first
half of 1942. He said the hardest
hit region will be the Great Lakes
and Ohio valley area. He reported
priority unemployment had
brought the first increase in six
months in the number of indus
drial workers available for war
(work through the 1,500 State em
ployment services,
j The President asked all Gover
(nors to transfer to the U. S. Em
ployment Servicce all personnel,
iccords and facilities required for
| operation of a central service. Me.
McNutt, whose Federal Securi
ty Agency includes the USES,
' urged all employers to recruit
workers exclusively through the
local public employment offices
and to refrain from "blind" ad
vertising, labor scouting or pira
ting, and other "wasteful and dis
ruptive" labor-recruiting methods.
Prices
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
reported wholesale prloee, led by
tgrtottfauml opmmndltiw, ran
yrn MPt ***
Danbury, N. C., Thursd ay, Dec. 25, 1941 * * * *
Eight Die Of
Traffic Accidents
At least eight persona died
violently in North Carolina over
the Christmas holiday, five in traf
fic accidents, one in a hunting ac
cident, one by cutting and one in
a fall.
Wilbur Simpson Jones, 20, was
fatally w«unded while hunting
near New Bern. Coroner U. W.
Daugherty said Jones shot a bird
and was jabbing it with the butt
of his gun when the weapon fired.
Charles Dlnham, 24 of the Mill
Creek section of McDowell county,
was fatally injured in an antomo
bile accident near his home.
James Walter Carroll, 50, a pe
destrian, was fatally injured by
automobile near Benson.
Private Benjiman Birnbaum, 23,
on army guard duty near Char
lotte, was struck and killed by a
train.
Austin S. Bryant, 24, was struck
and killed by an automobile on a
highway between Fayetteville and
Fort Bragg.
Randolph Finch, 31, was killed
in an automobile accident near
Raleigh.
James Evans, 72, died at Mar
'ion of razor slashes which Sheriff
lOrpdy Nichol& said were self-ii
1 flicted. ~
Mrs. Mary E. Sowers, 49, died
!of a broken neck suffered in a I
| fall into a well at Lexington. 1
i ;
jDecember 13 to the highest level!
since 1929 and more than 10 per
cent, greater than this time last
year. Living costs, the Bureau
said, are now 11.8 per cent, above
.those when war in Europe began.
Price Administrator Henderson
moved to stabilize prices of re
claimed rubber, raw wool and
various wool yarns, coffee, cocoa,
pepper, cocoa butter, fats and oils
except butter, barrel staves and
headings, fir "peeler" logs from
which plywood is made, resold
iron and steel products, natural
resins and shellac, and secono
hEnd burlap and cotton bags.
Civilian Defense
The Red cross and the CCC an
nounced an agreement to train
CCC personnel in disaster-fighting
techniques and to use CCC camps,
equipment and personnel during
emergencies requiring mass evac
uations in any part of the count
, ry. The Red Cross also called foj
| 50,000 more trained nurses to
place the nation's nursing pro
gram on a full war-time basis. T 
>
acquire this number, a new re
,
serve ol nurses unavailable for
■ military duty because of age or
; marriage will be called.
The RFC set up a War Insur
ance Corporaion with a $lOO,-
000,000 capital to provide "reason
able protection" against damage
to private property resulting from
enemy attack. The Office of Civil
ian Defense asked for continuous
operaton of war plants
Without Interruption for blackout
after blackout phtti have
BM aanwtqra u mwmvT.
Winston Salem P. C. A.
To Meet Jan. 10—As
sociation Closes Suc
cessful Year.
The annual meeting of the Win
ston-Salem Production Credit As
sociation, which extends a short
term credit service to Stokes coun
ty farmers, will be held on Satur
day, January 10 at the Forsyth
county Court House in Winston-
Salem, beginning at 10:00 a. m.,
according to an announcement by
L. E. Francis, secretary-treasurer
of the association.
This will be the eighth annual
meeting and Mr. Francis said that
it was hoped to make it the best
in the history of the association.
Complete and detailed reports on
the operations of the organization
for the past year will submit
ted by the" officers and plans for
further development of the service
which the farmers cooperative has
to offer will be discussed.
At the meeting two directors
will be elected and other business
will be transacted. Mr. Francis
said that it is hoped that every
member of the association wift
make an effort to be present this
year.
In addition to Stokes county,
the Winston - Salem Production
Credit Association serves Forsyth,
Davidson, Yadkin, Surry, Allcg
hnney, Ashe, Watauga, Wilkes an 1
Caldwell counties. The Association
(made loans In H'll totaling
| 1
000 to its members for produc
tion and general agricultural pur
' poses.
LOCALS
Mrs. S. P. Christian spent the
holi.lays with Lilllian and Evelyn
Oliver in Roanoke.
#*** * * •
Miss Lucille Martin of Reids
ville is at home with her mother,
Mrs. N. A. Martin.
*** * *
Hazel Petree of Burlington wa3
at home last weekend.
*** * *
R. S. Marshall of Washington,
D. C., is spending the holidays with
his family here.
*****
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Mathis, Jr.,
are spending Christmas in Frank
lington.
* ■» •» »
j The following college students
arc at home for Christmas vaca
tion: Margie Petree, Lenoir
i
R'.iync; Lois Wall, Montreal; An
gela Taylor, Salem; and Brani!.\v
Wall, NYA Training Center, Dui
ham.
* •» ■:> •» •»
Tommy Williams, U. S. N. of
Jacksonville, N C., is visiting the
W. E. Joyces.
*****
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard van Nop
pen are visiting the J. J. van Nop
pens in New York.
••• • *
Miss Mary Taylor of Germanton
ftp Mpcatltnf ttaa holiday vacation
at her home hem . I
Published Thursdays * * * * Number 3,616
WAR DEPARTMENT
IS CALLING
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO
STOKES COUNTY TRUCK
OWNERS.
The Highway Traffic Advisory
Committee to the War Department
is appealing to the Department of
Motor Vehicles of North Carolina
to urge all truck and bus owners
in Stokes county to immediately
fill out and mail in the question
naire sent to them for the National
Defense truck and bus inventory.
This inventory is being made for
War Department by the Public
Roads Administration and the
Works Projects Administration to
be used in planning National De
fense emergency transportation.
A report made Friday by Mr.
L. G. Watters of the Public Roads
Administration, who is Technical
Advisor for this work in North
Carolina, revealed that only thir
ty-one per cent, of the vehicle
owners in North Carolina had sent
in their reports. This shows North
Carolina to be lagging far behind
most of the states in the Union
'in the compilation of this essen
tian National Defense data for
the War Department. Mr. Wat
ters said that Wisconsin leads the
nation with returns from about
ninety per cent, of the owners and
South Carolina leads the South
eastern stales with about seventy
'per cent,
i
| Mr. W;.tiers further states tlr.t
a large number of the quest Uui
! •
uaires received lo cute are incom
plete and incorrectly tilled out and
wiil have to be returned to the
owners for completion or correc
tions, and he urges that all own
ers follow instructions and car.
1 fully fill out their cards.
L l Each card should be indent ific-el
I
iwith the vehicle by tlu use of the
j motor number shown in space
"A" of the questionnaire.
Another angle c. t.ie survey is
most important u) v .vr.'c mid
i bus owners in No»\h Carolina.
Priority ratings to assure future
| productions and replacements of
j parts for the motor venicle own
-1 ers make it absolutely necessary
I I
I that complete information of each
■ truck and bus in the United States
j be available. It is not only the pa
' I triotic duty of owners to fill out
! and return these questionnaires
J promptly, but it is vital to the
motor truck industry in determin
ing the future needs in se uring
priori.y r.• ti• ,s foi :, • • • men
• !
of unit.; ! atr
Latest Acie.ii4j!l
i 
| Mi. nnd .Mr.;. William McCunles.,
jof Danbury announced the ar-
I rival of a son Tuesday afternoon
at the Baptist Hospital in Win
-1 ston-Salem.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Martin
have as their guests Mrs. Charles
Moore and Mr. and Mrs. T. J.
Efird of Charlotte.
V•* • # •
- Mis* Nellie Joyce of Winston
flahm I* at homa tot the hobd&y*.'
MRS. NELL McCALL
DIES IN CRASH
WALNUT COVE YOUNG WO
HAN MET DEATH WEDNES
DAY NIGHT NEAR WINSTON*
SALEM—ED NEWTON, DRIV-
I B IS IN HOSPITAL.
Mrs. Nell McCall, of Walaut
Cove, was almost instantly kilted
Wednesday night when a car
' crashed into the one in which she
was riding at a curve on the Rural
Hall road. Ed Newton, driver, es
caped serious injury.
A man booked as William Claud
Parris, of Mount Airy, was ar
: rested on a manslaughter charge,
1 1 Forsyth officers said. He was in
hospital today with a fractur
ed leg.
Parris' automobile had side
I swiped the car of Roy Plunkctt,
>. Stanleyville, a short distance be-
I fore it collided with the Newton
i automobile, according to reports.
Sheriff's deputies investigating
' the accident said that Parris was
- under the influence of liquor when
i arrested. He told them someone
I else was in the car, but they were
i unable to find any other person
■ at the scene who might have been
him, they reported.
■ j Both of the cars were badly
' smashed. The Parris car was off
I
the road on the left-hand side a.rl
I its right front v is Kt lly dnmni'crl,
■ j The young woman was appar
' ently thrown with t; ' I I:I■ • I'.UVO
t
against the wi:Kl.\:irM »; the t ;ii'
I in which she V.. S L I ;
Mrs. McCall was .11 Win
- ston-Salcm, July i.'s, 1!.»
i tor of K. M. ;:i 1 Kmr •• !■ . i Me
• Call. SI 1 iiVr>.l then '1 • i: ! li!'
- ii i'i! tin 0 jvars ayu wl.cti hc-r
- family mow I to Walnut Cove. Sh'-
'was a member of \V;..ightowii
( Presbyterian Church. Her father
1 is a well-known carpenter ami con*
. tractor.
Survivors include: the parents;
two children, Ann and Ruddy
...Waddell; one brother, Glenn Me
, Call, of New York; one sister,
Bobbie McCall, of Walnut Cove.
2 Sheriff j. J. Taylor and Angelri
f and Nellie Louise Taylor were
" guests of Mrs. John T. Simpson in
/ Winston-Salem Christmas day.
; J^PEFENSE
MM BUY
tt SU,NGS
IiON
1 i • ' *
I AMERICA ON GUARD!
' Above is a reproduction of th«
Treasury Department's Defense
Savings Poster, showing an exact
duplication of the original "Minute
Man" statue by famed sculptor
Daniel Chester French.* Defense
, Bonds and Stamps, on sale at your
bank or post office, are a vital part
af America'! defense preparations.
• LOST—Near Moore's Spring
white & dark lemon-spotted walk-,
er fox dog. (5 reward— Notify ,
P. J. LEAKE,
„ . Uswrille, N. e.