THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872 Volume 66
ELMER P. NEWSUM
f RETURNS HOME
KING MAN IS CONVALESCENT
AFTER SERIOUS ILLNESS—
| CBA& CARROLL ALSO JM
| PROVING OTHER KINO
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> King—ln the heart of the aouth
land—Jan. I—E.1 —E. P. Newsum who
* has been in the City Memorial
Hospital, Winston-Salem, for sev
eral weeks suffering from hemo
>, rhage of the stomach and who has
been very tick has returned to his
home here and is convalescing.
Miss Sue Mae Slate and Mrs.
Ruth Spainhower have returned
from Richmond, Va. where they
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Rob
ert Lee Slate through the Christ
mas hoidays.
Lee Roy Kirby of Fort Jack
son, South Carolina is spending
a furlough with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Kirby near Five
Forks.
Preston Ferguson, prominent
planter of the Haw Pond section
was among the business visitors
here Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Slate and
and Mrs. C. D. Slate, Sr., visited
relatives in Roanoke, Va. over the
weekend.
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The many friend of Charles
JL Carroll, who is in- * Wiaston-
Salem hospital will be pleased to
r learn that he is much improved
.iter a major operation. '
Dr. and Mrs. Ernest M. Griffin
have returned from Atlanta, Ga.
where they attended the silver
wedding anniversary of Mr. and
Mrs. George Johnson.
Mrs. Lula Pulliam who is a pa
tient in the City Memorial Hospi
tal, Winston-SaTem, is quite sick
her friends will regret to learn.
Dr. Lee Riser of Statesville wad
the guest of relatives here
through the Christmas holidays.
Work has been started on a new
home for Dewey Long in Walnut
Hills and will be pushed through
to completion at an early date.
Mr. and Mrs. Austin Gamer
who reside on Dan River street
are visiting relatives in Rocky
Mount.
Bill Law has accepted a position
with the Jones Brothers Bakery
at Winston-Salem. Mr. Law will
still reside here.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Pulliam
of Englewood, Tennessee, have re
trned to their home after a few
days stay with Mr. Pulliam's par
ents, Rev. and Mrs. L. K. Pulliam.
R. B. Reynolds of Wilmington
is spending the holidays with rel
atives and friends here. Mr. Rey
nolds is engaged in defense worK
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HEART ATTACK
S. L. Golden of Germanton sus
tained a heart attack Sunday. His
condition is now much improved.
Miss Geraldine Denny of Con
cord will spend the weekend with
Margie Petree. Miss Denny is a
roommate of Margie's at Lenoir
Large Attendance Ex
pected At Annual
Meeting of Winston-
Salem PC A
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Indication point to a very large
attendance at the annuel meeting
of the members of the Winston-
Salem Producetion Credit Associa
tion, which wil be held on January
10 at Forsyth County Court House
in Winston-Salem beginning at
10:00 a. m., according to L. E.
Francis, who is secretary-treasu
rer of the association.
A very interesting and instruc
tive program has been arranged
for the meting, Mr. Francis said,
and much interest is being mani
fested by the members. Some new
features will be introduced at the
meeting this year, he said.
"Every farmer is vitally inter
ested in the problems and chang
ing conditions affecting agricul
ture today," said Mr. Francis,
"and we hope that this will be the
largest meeting in the history of
our organization."
Arrangements have been made
whereby each member-borrower
present at the meeting will be giv
en an attractive and appropriate
plaque. In the center of this plaque
is our American Flag and at thr
top is the inscription: GOD BLESS
AMERICA. The plaque is built
of three-ply ffum wcod and will
last Indefinitely. It an be appropri
ately set on bureau or fire board
or hung on the wall of home as n
picture. The membere and others
who have seen one of them say it
is well worth attendnig the meet
ing just to get one.
Not only are member-borrowers
invited to attend the meeting, but
also other farmers and stockmen,
business and professional people,
who are interested in co-operative
credit for agriculture.
Officers of the association are:
Paul J. Vestal, president; W. H.
Hardy, vice-president; and L. E.
Francis, secretary-treasurer. Di
rectors in addition to the pesident
and vice-president are C. E. Hart
man and E. S. Welborn. The as
sociation normally has five mem
bers of the board of directors.
There are only four members at
present, however, by reason of the
recent death of N. C. Speas, who
was a member.
Death Of
John W. Johnson
Madison. —John Woodson John
i son, aged 85, well known retired
farmer of the Shady Grove com
munity, Madison, Route 1, died at
9:30 o'clock Tuesday night at his
home. He suffered a .paralytic
stroke Sunday night and never
rallied.
Survivors include four daugh
ters, Mrs. W. D. Mitchell, Walnut
Cove, Route, 1, and Mrs. R. H.
Simpson, Mrs. C. T. Lasley and
Mrs. Gid Mabe, all of Madison,
Route 1; one son, J. F. Johnson,
Walnut Cove, Route 2; one daugh
ter, Mrs. R. L. Ziglar, Reldsville;
and two brothers, Will Q. John-
Json, Madison, and Jim Johnson,
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Danbury, N. C., Thursday, Jan; 1,1942 * * * *
LAY OFF LINDBERGH
"Colonel" Lindbergh has applied for admission
back into the American air force, and aspires to
be its chief.
From the moaning tides of Luzon and out of
the broken fronts of Pearl Harbor comes a voice
—3OOO strong—of American dead:
"NO, A THOUSAND TIMES NO."
The one person above all others responsible for
the most shameful and humiliating episode in
American history is Chas. H. Lindbergh.
Lindbergh by virtue of his high position led
weak congressional minds to defeat American
preparedness.
Lindbergh and Wheeler and Nye and Vanden
burg may essay to slink back now with their
specious patriotism.
The American people do not believe in them any,
more. The American people do not trust them, j
The American people remember how they with:
their satellites tried to block every effort made.
to insure this country against danger.
The American people recall the glittering dec- 1
orations on the coat of Lindburgh pinned by the
Fuehrer. The American people remember Lind
bergh's efforts to have the President of the Unit
ed States impeached for no other reason than per
sonal hate because the President was trying to
put the nation in a state of preparedness against
Hitler.
The American people believe the blood of Lind
bergh the German is thicker than the blood of
Lindbergh the synthetic American. The leopard
does not change his spots.
.Lay off Ligdbergh.
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CHURCHILL AT WASHINGTON
Patrick Henry, Andrew Jackson, Theodore
Roosevelt, John Paul Jones—sleeping quietly in
their tombs—must have stirred at Winston
Churchill's speech delivered before the congress]
at Washington.
This old lion—half English and half American
—thundered in his final sentence (or words to
this effect):
"When at last we have blasted the hell out of
these European and Asiatic brigands, the United
States of America and the British Empire will
walk down the ages hand in hand in majesty, jus
tice and peace."
If ever in the annals of history there have been
more moving words said than these we have not
read them.
APPALLING TRAGEDIES
The list of North Carolina car killings amounts
to 140 per month, some months.
The average is over 100.
This does not take into consideration the
injured, nor the property loss in smashed
machinery, nor the immense cost of hospital fees.
If so many deaths and wounded were reported
from the war fronts, a wave of gloom and dejec
tion would sweep the state.
But the automobile tragedy is taken for grant
ed. Nobody pays more than passing attention to
:t - until the heavse stops at his own door.
AMONG THE SICK
Carl Wall of Meadows, father
of J. C. Wall of Danbury, is ser
iously ill in a Winston-Salem hos
pital.
E. P. Newsum of King, who re
cently has been 01 la a Winston
hospital, m returned hosie much
Poor Print
r mproved.
Boly Tuttle, of Walnut Cove, has
returned to his home after spend
ing several days in a Winston
pital. ,
Chas. Csiroll of King b ■*'" In
i hospital. *
Published Thursdays
THIS WEEK
IN DEFENSE
Great Britian's Prime Minister
Churchill arrive- in Washington
for a meeting of the United States
War Council which includes the
heads of the two nations and their
ranking naval and military ad
visers. The White House announc
ed the primary objective of the
conferences as the "defeat of Hit
lerism throughout the world."
The statement also said "It |
should be remembered.. .the pres-'
lent conferences in Washington
should be regarded as preliminary
to further conferences which wiil
1 officially include Russia, China,
the Netherlands and the Domin- 1
i ions... the other interested na- ■
jtions will be kept in close touch
with this preliminary planning."
In a side-by-side press confei
ence, the president and Mr.
Churchhill said they were working
out a broad development of strat
egy to be turned over to the mil
itary for execution in cooperation
with all anti-Axis countries.
Speaking before an informal
I session of Congress, the Prime
Minister proposed that following'
the present war the "germ centers
of hate and revenge" should be
constantly policed so "the pestil-;
ence can be controlled at the very
beginning...."
The War Front
The Navy Department reported
during the past week 14 enemy
submarines were sunk or damaged
one enemy transport and one mine
sweeper were sunk and an addi
tional transport and one seaplane
tfcnder were "probably" sunk. The
Department said enemy subma
rines had sunk three merchant
ships and shelled two others.
Wake Island, with its 400 officers
and men and 1,000 construction
workers, was reported captured.
The War Department said an
American Army bomber sank an
enemy submarine off the Califor
nia coast. There was heavy fight
ing in the Philippines and Manila
was declared an open city.
Other Foreign Relations
A special House Committee in
vestigating air transportation re
turned from a tour of the Ameri
'can Republics to report the Axis
controls airports within easy
bombing distance of the Panam i
, Canal, strategic airports in Brazil,
l and "no less than 41" shortwave
j radios in Guatemala alcno ;>
, O'.hcrs in Mexico which !;-vo in
formed fl. ftuthorlti- • ' v
i
of U. S. merchant vessel de;»ar
ures from the United Stales. The
committee also reported finding
the Nazis have prefected plans for
the sabotaging of all utilities in
j Buenos Aires "and that in a crisis
• they could probably establish r
operating base in Argentina..."
The State Department announc
ed a new trade agreement with
Cuba and an accord with the Vichy
Governor of French Martinique to
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NORTH CAROLINA
SELLS MUCH BEER
TWENTY - ONE OUTLETS IN
STOKES COUNTY—BIG TAX
RECEIPTS TO THE STATE.
Raleigh, Jan.—The State De«
partment of Revenue has issued
retail beer licenses to 21 outlets
in Stokes county.
Figures compiled by the Brew
ers and North Carolina Beer Dis
tributors Committee, as of Decem
ber 31, disclosed that 4,822 retail
outlets have been licensed by the
state for the 1941-42 fiscal year.
It is possible that the number will
reach 5,000 before the tax year
(for beer licenses) ends April 30.
Mecklenburg county with 333
retail outlets easily tops Guilford
! county's 251, followed by Forsyth
I with 189, Wake 185, New Hanover
171, Buncombe 102, Durham 157
and Cumberland 147.
In addition to the retail outlets,
the state has licensed 111 estab
lishments to sell beer at wholesale.
These 4,933 places employ 13,260
persons with an annual payroll of
$11,516,400, according to figures
compiled by the committee.
They pay more than $160,000
annually in license taxes to tbe
state and local units. In all, the
beer industry pays almost $5,000 -
000 in taxes a year in North Car
o!na —about 42 per > ent. of which
eoe.? to the state treasury
Social
Mrs. W. E. Joyce entertained
the members of the Fine Arts
Club at a most enjoyable Christ
mas party at her home "Wednes
day evening.
The colored lights in windows
and doors conveyed to each guest
,the Christmas spirit before enter
] ing the house where a brightly
lighted Christmas tree and glow*
] ing fire gave a cordial welcome
to all.
Mrs. A. J. Ellington, the Pres
ident, presided at the meeting.
During the business session the
club voted to remain Federated
; during the coming year.
I Mrs. Scott gave a report
lon thv* ..mount and number of
j cooking vessels for the lunch
room devoted by the club. After
the exchange of Christmas gifts
a lovely game of bingo was en
joyed with Mrs. A. J. Ellington
winner of a:i nii."tive gift for
, ( ,
1
it j- consist.
I'W 'nil.lies, |.i.; '■ S. tea,
eoff«.e :i!i>l cookies was rved i>
the hostess assisted by Misses
Nellie Joyce, Luna Taylor anl
Mrs. Frank Martin.
At the midnight hour, the club
amid New Year's resolutions ad
journed to meet January, 1942.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard van Nop*
pen, and Virginia Fulton of Wal
nut Cove have returned from A
week's visit in New Teak wl Itoer
Jtraep.
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