THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872
GOVERNOR SPEAKS
HERE MONDAY
At the court house next. Mon
day at 2 o'clock F. M., the same
being the first day of Superior
Court, Gov. J. M. Broughton will
address the voters on the political
issues. This event will mark the
formal opening of the Democratic
campaign in the county. Chair
man of the Executive Committer
R. J. Scott says sound transmit
ters will be installed so that
those who are unable to get seats
in the auditorium may hear tlv,
f •» m
SpPnlccF Trom tlie outside. **•'
COURT CONVENES
MONDAY MORNING
The Fall term of Stokes crimi
nal court convenes next Monday
With JUuge Felix Alley iiresidin7
Solicitor Scott will irosccut"
Large docket, and big crowd ex
pected.
Eighteen-Y ear-Olds
Register In September
The following IS-ycar-olds nf
Stokes county registered d"r ! r -
SeptemVvr for Selective Service:
Junior Franklin -. Pin
nacle; Lovd Mabe. Sandy Ridge;
1 Gaston Pinnin, Pine Hal!:
9 L.oyd Hairston, 'Col.i Wa!-
ove; Kenneth Alexander
Lane. Pinnacle; R. J. Boaze, Pilot
Mtn.: Benjamin Franklin McHone
Lawsonville; Orrel Rooertson,
Lawsonvillc: Wm. Rogers, Law
sonville: Samuel Vernon. Madi
son: Leonard Wade Hanes, Pine
Hall: Marvin Grey Kallam, Pin
nacle; Harold Stewart, Westfield;
Charles Bailey Stevens, Danbi.r .
Joseph Paul Rutledge. Dalton:
Curtis Mar.-lull Bo; les, Kirg:
Herman liny Burtvcll. Rural Hi!';
Ralph Elbert Ftillt. PiMi'ile; .7 in -
my Lit' Wagoner, I.nwsonvii'e•
Rob'-i* Leonard Mit.!ill, Walnu:
.7osej.il Bud Heath, Walnut Cove:
Arnold Tilley, Walnut Cive; Hen
ry Eowden, King; Odell St even r,
Vade Mecum; Carl Ray Merritt,
Ger mailt on; Andrew Wilson
Stuart, Va., RFD; Welburn Mad
ison Simmeris, Francisco.
Jr. Red Cross Drive
Date Is Announe?:J
Mrs. It. J. Gil:.3on of Sandy
Ridge, who i:> chairman of the
Stokes County J unit r R •' f n-.-s,
announced lie*- '.his w; that
the hc : :.!'ing of it:; drive wotil!
b'- Now 1 through the lf>.
BATTLESHIP TEXAS
SEAMAN Dl T NLA F
Iva.- lMf ("Shorthorn" Dunla,i,
Mat' -i' J now aT Norfolk, V
'si'ing friends in the county
f -el:, being on a furlough
i, Tor a few days. He was on
the bailieship Texas when the in
vasion took place in .Normandy,
and the ship took part in the ac
tion. He says his experience was
plenty exciting.
Volume 72
KING NEWS '
By E. P. NEWSUM
King, Oct. 5.-Announcement is
mad • of the marriage of Glenn
Moser of the U. S. Navy, station
ed in California now on furlough
here, to Miss Rebecca Rains, at
York, S. C., Saturday, Sept. 23.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. O. L. Rains of King and
the bridegroom is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Elsie Moser, also of
King.
A fvrce of carpenters are nt
! work remok>lin? rr.?r.r£,!r.g,
the Palmetto Theatre on North
Depot St., which is owned and op
erated by J. .). Booth of Danbuiy.
The new addition will i,ivc an nd
.litional seating capacity of abont
00.
. Barum Xewsum and Win. Wail j
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have p r.e to Missouri to purchase
a bunch of mules.
Miss Ai sjie Sisk has enter.-d
college at Harrisonburg. Va., in
the Sht na i !oah Valley. ,
Balm.- a 1- ies, who wa3 wiun 1
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led in Guadalcanal, has received a i
medical discharge and has re-
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turned to l is homo here.
Banner Sht it.>:> s sail has j
.etuined to his h.nu- here, hav-,
ino been discharge.-' on p.ucount of
a nervous breakdown. He was.
stationed at Macon. Ha.
Here's tlTe stork's report: t> !
Mr. and Mrs. Claud Lavvson. a
daughter: to Mr. and Mrs. James
Gowen, a daughter: to Mr. and'
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Mrs. Wm. Matthews, a son: t j
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Lane, a son.'
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Dr. and Mrs. Frank Stone of
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Richmond, Va., are spending a {
few days with Dr. Stone's par- ■
••nts. Mr. and Mis. Joe S'one on,
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West Main St. Dr. S: inc. v.lir
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ii 'S been on the reserve list o'
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( • nt:.-t.6 with trie ;; , r.i > !i!|
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b-en ordered to aciii.il duty t ,
Miar i. I".;.
Mr. r-i,l Mr. JI r:r v Hnusei !
have t ;; notifi I by the Wai j
Dc-p i;t that theii i ~i, Dei 1
aid Gray Hauler, vrs reriouslyj
v.our.'kd in Belgium on Sr; t. 5. |
M:. and Mrs. A.iron Ha:lcl ol]
' Wrnston-SMem were among the
|vif' r-tj here Friilay.
T'd Cox r,' Camp -"lajdin!;,
Fl".. is sprnd:' •.' a lew lu>:\
oa I ilriKjih v tli hie i. tnily.
The IMm/.v. -. 'inde>-
wa'. tor. il .-T.ioval op'-- .".;.in» ta
111. iir,:.' 1 re F:i' •> •
.'.'.i,i.. and ;>iiss June Websti r A
r natiiua nd Miss .1 lunico V *
of Walll'll C »ve.
And thai ; the news from heie
Tin: MARRY GO
ROUND
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Marriage licenses issued hen-,
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by the Ltrense Bureau are as iol
lows:
| Sept. 30— W. B. Haden to Beu
lah Coley, both of Walnut Cove.
| Oct. 4-Watson Andrew Mabe
of Rural Hall, to Ruth Ellen
H|icks, King.
Danbury, N. C.. Thursday, Oct. 5, 1944
(Editorials)
Peg-ler Reaches Home *
The columnist Westbrook Pegier has
quit the Scripps-Howard chain of pa
pel's, and joins the Hearst organization.
Whether lie was kicked out for his su
per-foulness. or whether he just wanted
to change his environment and attach
himself to a more congenial atmosphere
of smear, we do not know.
But we do know that Pegier is now
lodged in his native lair.
i Honest, intelligent, constructive criti
cism is needed in government and poli
tics. It is healthy and makes for more
wholesome government. Roosevejt and
the New Deal invite criticism. The Pres
ident admitted at the outset of his ad
ministration that he expected to make
mistakes, and he asked that he might be
criticised, and welcomed it.
But such honest and unbiased criticism
is far different from the snarling, vitu
perative, defamitory stuff put out con
stantly by Westbrook Pegier.
Hearst, the multi-millionaire publish
er, who owns 27 big dailies and many
magazine* and ether "publications— ev
ery one of them a foe to Roosevelt and
the New Deal —pays high for the kind
of rajicor which Pegier i-pouts and in
which Pegier excels.
Hearst wants more shady writers to
help smear Roosevelt -more misrepre
sentatives of truth, more purveyors of
bitterness and slander, more uncon
scionable writers who have no regard
for facts or for the character of those
they attack.
Hears l has found his man—Pegier has
everything. His stock-in-trade is slime,
vi tu per at ion, ca lum ny.
Pegler's fuul pen smokes with venom
and hate, and smells like the stench
from a ditch-skunk.
Pegier never wrote a pleasant sen
tence. Except when extolling the vir
tues of his masters, who furnish him
with pay-cheeks.
His writings are never uplifting, but
always pitched on a low plane and de
structive; never interesting except to
those who ei.joy insinuation, innuendo,
character assassination; never informa
tive except to those in kind who have
previously missed his scurrilous ebulli
tion?.
We have nsver understood why self
respecting newspapers circulate IV; -
ler's vile propaganda exc.pt on the h.,-
pothesi*- that they want to hold up the
comparison, between decent journalism
and an abased form of newspaper .wri
ting, and give their rmdevs a sample of
skulduudery and billingsgate Jjy irre
sponsible scribes.
There are no limits to Pegler's shame
less audacity. He allows no curbs on his
malign abuse. He attacks the char
acter of the President, the President's
wife, the President's grandfather, the
President's children. His reeking pen
spares neither thfl jnodesty of woman,
(Ctontbued on page 4)
PUBLISHED TIIL RSDAYS
Camp And Hospital
Committee Members
Named For Chapter
Members of Camp iind Hospital
• Committee of Stokes Cournv
:
Chapter ol the American Red
Cross, were named as follows: j
Miss Laura V. Ellington, chn'i
Jinan; Publicity Chairman, Mrs.
• Sallie F. Pepper; Executive Secre
tary, Mrs. L. H. van Noppen. 1
Germanton, Mrs. J. C. Carson,
jLawsonville P.-T.A., Mrs. Marth i
Morris; Danbi'ry school, Mrs. Dal
i
( las C. Kirby; Stokesburg Metho
dist.
Women's Society of Christian
Service, Mrs. J. W. Hutcherson; 1
Walnut Cove Baptist Missionary
Society, Mrs. John Bray; Walnut
Cove Episcopal Church Auxiliary,
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Mrs. Paul Fulton.
! Sandy Midge Methodist Sunda.v
School and Women's Society, Mis.-'
Lucille Vernon; Oak Ridge Bajf
! tist Church Auxiliary, Mrs. J. N.
! Hutcherson; Junior Red Cross,
|R. J. Gibson; Dunb.ry, Mrs. EJ
IM. Taylor; Pino Hall Women' 1 -
JSociety o£ Christian Service, Miss
Mary WiTliamsorf. * • ««,«• -
I The Home Demonstration Clubs
lof the county have the following
members as club chairmen:
( Francisco- Mis. XV. F.. Collins;
Sandv Ridge Mrs. Ed Shclton;
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Quaker Gap Mrs. Roy S. Red
ding; f'ine Hall--Mis. M. I). Wefcb;
Bcthesda Miss Pearl Johnsrn;
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Mt. View Mrs. Grady Stewart;
Leake Memorial—Mrs. Joe Brows;
Lawsonville Mrs. K. G. Lawson;
King Mrs. Joe E. Stone, Jr.; Col
linstoun Miss Ruth Jefferson.
Miss Pearl Johnson of the B
thesda Club has collected 25 mag
azines and some ladies' leath: i
handbags; Rev. Lawrence gave i
number of discarded basketball-!
from Vnde Mcrum Camp: Miss
Lucille Vernon secured S.'! tor •!
magazine subscription frtn: the
Methodist W'SCs of Sand- Ridgt
NORTH VIEW NEWS
North View. Miss AMI •• Jea'.i
Stev i.s f-pent the past Week-etui
with Miss Sin Hon at Lawsi.nvi!!.'.
Mr. and Mis. Kolu rson Wilsoa
and family and Mr. and Mrs
Jnhnniv Wi'liam.s visited Mr. and
Mrs. St vena and family
Saturday niglu, j' w
Cpl. John Alley, st:
Fort Sloivy, Va . Is £;vr l.u.
furlough with 111-; pa: Mi
and Mis. Gilbert Al'ey.
j Misses li- ibell Aiu n
Young i.iul Curtis Young v
Miss Anni Rath Yo:m ;;
afternoon.
! Miss Doris Wood ..s.. the : •
list this week.
j Jim Dodr-m li.s returned 'o his
home at Walnut Cove alter \ ; ut
ing his daughter.
! Lcm Mabe spent Monday night
with Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Stevens
and family.
' Mi's. Randolph Mabc's fathei
is in the hospital.
Number >*.771
ANOTHERSTOKES
WAR CASUALTY
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DEATH OF PHILIP SIMMONS
OK FRANCISCO IS REPORT
KD - LIST OK FATALITIES
NOW STANDS AT THIRTEEN
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News is received here of the
deaih in France of Philip Sim
mons, son of Fletcher Simmons
of Francisco. Particulars ol
vounr Simmons' death have not
been received.
The Simmons death increases
the list of Stokes casualties to
thirteen. '
( The war death list loi Stok -a
row stands as follows:
Li- ut. David R. Mitchell, Kin;,
kill- 1 in action in China.
S-t. .L.i :) W. Collins, Francisco
kill".! in action in Florida.
Li "..t. J.;ck Hutchorson, Walnut
f\.\ ki'led i.i plain crash while
training in Florida.
Pvt. Loyd Minefield, kill'
cd i'i action at Roiijjainville.
i ; ! R.ibert Hall, Meadows, kill
• I a action in South Pacific.
I P •' y Officer Jimmy Wallace
"IrifTifi. Randy Ridge, kiil' d in ac
tion in Italy.
C; I. Drcwry Glenn Honker, of
Yadkin township, killed in action
in Sicily. «■
P;c. Evetette J. Fulk, Pinnacle,
killed in action ir, France, July 11,
1944.
Lieut. Thos. A. Egglcston, Dil
lard, killed in action in Italy, July
13. 1944.
Sgt. Thomas H. Shcloi, fran
cisco, k'lled in action in France,
June 20, 1944.
S«t. Richard T. Pell, Jr., West
field, killed in France, July 11,
911.
(V W. Sl-iwtci. Kinj; kiile i
i:i i> iii Frar.ee, August 21,
194 i.
I !uli;i ."-inn.ens. Kram n fill
i d in :;.! ii.ii iu I'iai-i'i , Si ;>t .
194 1.
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Pnor to mli in the I'SAP
he was employed as a tractor for
L. A. Novaian.
Tommy Gibson of the IJSN, now
stationed at Norfolk. Va„ visited
friends here this week. Hie is on
furlough at his home at Walnut
Cove.
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