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VOL. XLV
YADKINVILLE, YADKIN COUNTY, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1940
No. 12
LATE
NEWS
IN
BRIEF
From
the
State
and
Nation
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON. March 20—
Last-minute pressure by civic
organizations to expand the
government's food stamp sys
tem threatened today to push
congressional economy plans
further out of kilter. With the
Senate debating the farm ap
propriation Mil—already swol
len $201,940,049 over budget
estimates — economy advocates
said there was a growing de
mand for an additional $28,
>000,000 to finance distribution
of food to needy families
through the stamp plan. It
now operates in about 50 cities,
but applications have come in
from 700 others.
MT. CLEMENS, Mich., Mar.
20—A mother who said she
was tired of caring for so
many children related to sher
iff’s officers today how she ar
ranged a soft bed Inside a
store, placed her youngest
born baby on it and cremated
him In oil. The mother, Mrs.
Vivian Mathews, 38, of near
Uttlca, was held in the Ma
comb county Jail here and As
sistant Prosecutor Wilbur Held
said a first-degree murder
warrant would be issued. Mrs.
Matthews told officers she had
been worn to the breaking
point caring for her three chil
dren. Last night, she said, she
felt she could endure it no
longer. She placed a baby’s
blanket inside the stove and
covered it with a fluffy layer
pf feathers taken from a pil
low. She soaked the material
with oil. Then, taking 8-week
old Howard from his crib, she
placed him on the oil-soaked
nest and applied a match.
INTERNATIONAL
LONDON. Mu. 20 — The
British government Is “so sat
isfied with relations with the
United States” that it Is di
recting no special questions to
America concerning the signif
icance of Sumner Welles’ Eu
ropean tour but is “relying on
their courtesy to keep us in
formed.” Foreign Undersecre
tary B. A. Butler told the
House of Commons today.
GENOA, Italy, Mar. 20 —
Sumner Welles, fact-finder for
President Roosevelt, sailed for
the United States today on the
Conte Di Savola, winding up
his strenuous tour of European
capitals. Welles’ train from
Rome arrived at 6:30 an.
(12:30 a.m., ea.t.). After four
hours at a hotel, where he
Joined Mrs. .Welles, the Ameri
can undersecretary of state
went aboard ship. He was ac
companied by the Secretary of
Foreign Minister Count Gale
. azso Ciano, who presented him
to a delegation of Genoese of
ficials, assembled to bid him
farewell.
Second Guernsey
Cattle Sale At
Shore Farm May 3
County Agent R. A. McLaugh
lin announced here yesterday that
there will be a sale of Guernsey
heifers, at auction.at the Grassy
Grove Dairy farm of M. P. Shore,
near Brooks Cross Roads on Fri
day, May 3.
The sale will be preceeded the
night before with a banquet
which will be in charge of Mr.
McLaughlin at the club rooms of
the Yadkinville Woman’s club. It
Is expected the banquet and the
sale will be attended by at least
100 farm agents, Guernsey cattle
enthusiasts and 4-H Club mem
bers. It will be the second of such
a dinner and sale in Yadkin
county, the first being held Dec.
16, 1938.
Purpose of the sale is to pro
vide purebred stock for 4-H club
boys at a central point without
them having to travel over the
state to select them.
Shore’s farm is located one mile
west of Brooks Cross Roads. The
sale will begin at noon and will
be handled by an official of the
American Guernsey Cattle Club,
sent here for that purpose.
FRANCE MINUS
GOVERNMENT AS
OFFICIALS QUIT
Daladier and Cabinet Resign
Posts
LACK OF CONFIDENCE
Premier May Form a New,
Belligerent Government
Following Conference
SITUATION IS DISCUSSED
Paris, March 20—Premier Ed
ouard Daladier and his cabinet
resigned today because a major
ity of the Chamber of Deputies
refused to vote confidence In his
manner of conducting the war,
but President Albert Lebrun call
ed him in for a 40-minute con
ference and was believed to have
asked him to form a new govern
ment.
The President had accepted the
cabinet’s resignation, leaving
Prance momentarily without a
government in one of Its most
perilous times, and a communi
que Issued after his conference
with Daladier announced only
that they had “met and discuss
ed the situation.”
The crisis was precipitated by
dissension over Daladier’s failure
to take the Initiative in the war
away from Germany and Russia
and send the allied forces into
some real action, but underlying
it was a tug-of-war between
right wing and socialist members
of Parliament that had been go
ing on for two years, ever since
Daladier got In power on the
break-up of the Popular Front
and maintained himself by play
ing one side against the other.
However, there was a deep
seated dissatisfaction over the
“passive war” the Allies have
conducted and the newspaper
L’Intransigeant said today that
the chamber, in refusing to vote
confidence in Daladler’s govern
ment, had “interpreted the na
tion’s wishes.”
“The vote was not against any
particular ministry or man,” the
newspaper said. “The signifi
cance of the vote was more pro
found. The two houses (of Par
liament) pronounced themselves
on the war in its entirety and its
principle. There can be no Jock
eying or substitution of Peter for
Paul. What the nation and par
liamentary representation demand
is a veritable renewal of methods
—a war government to make and
win war.”
Patrolman Norris
Given One Year
In State Prison
^Special to The Ripple)
Mocksville, March 19.—H. V.
Norris, former state highway pa
trolman here, was sentenced to
state prison for one year today by
Judge W. H. Bobbitt after he
pleaded guilty in superior court of
accepting a bribe of $50 from
Clyde Weatherman, Yadkin coun
ty man, to “fix" a charge against
Weatherman in Davie court of
driving intoxicated.
In the case of Weatherman the
grand jury found not a true bill
and he went free.
Norris was arrested in the early
morning hours of Feb. 1, charged
with accepting the $50 bribe, after
newspapers had played up the
story of the*bribe taking and sen
sational escape of the patrolman
from Sheriff Bowden of Davie
county and Guy Scott, of the SBI,
who witnessed the payment of the
bribe from Weatherman’s car,
but could not intercept the patrol
man in his mad dash to get away.
Norris was charged with taking
the $50 bribe from Weatherman
on Monday night, January 29, to
fix the drunken driving charge for
which Norris arrested Weather
man August 14, 1939. Weatherman
received a letter January 19 pro
posing settlement of the case and
he notified authorities who wit
nessed the payment of the bribe
at the Davie-Iredell county line.
They, however, were unable to
catch Norris at the time and it
was not until three days later
when he returned to Mocksville
that the patrolman was arrested.
Because a snake’s Jaws are not
hinged together and its skin is
very loose, it can swallow an egg
three times as large as its own
head.
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Yadkinville Safety Patrol Organized
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Yadkinville school has a new school bus safety patrol, organized last week by representatives of
the state highway safety division and the state highway patrol with the co-operation of Superin
tendent of Schools Fred Hobson. Two boys will be on each school bus to assist in loading, unloading
and transporting children. The boys are shown above, left to right, front row: Edwin Draughan,
Grey Reavis, Willie Adams, Robert Bruce, James Hugh Williams: second row: Lester Bates, Clyde
Sizemore, Arthur Lee Saylor, Marshall McKnight and Odell Haire.— (Photo by Bill Rutledge, cut cour
tesy Winston-Salem Journal.)
Republican
Convention
Is Called
To the Republican Voters of
Yadkin county:
Notice is hereby given to the
Republicans of Yadkin county
that precinct meetings and a
convention date has been set. All
precinct meetings are to be held
at the regular voting places on
Saturday afternoon, March 30, at
2 o’clock, for the purpose of per
fecting a precinct organization,
electing delegates to the county
convention, etc. At these precinct
meetings there must be elected a
Chairman, who will be the exec
utive committeeman for the pre
cinct, a vice Chairman.^ who must
be a woman, a secretary, and two
other members.
The county convention will be
held in the court house at Yad
kinville, at 2 o’clock P. M., on
Saturday, April 6, 1940, for the
purpose of perfecting the county
organization, electing deelgates
to the state, congressional and
senatorial conventions, and for
transaction of such other business
as may come before the conven
tion.
The county will have 23 dele
gates to the various conventions.
Each precinct is entitled to the
following number of delegates to
the county convention: Boonville,
13; North Knobs, 4; North Buck
Shoals, 9; South Buck Shoals, 5;
Deep Creek, 9; North Liberty, 8;
South Liberty, 6; Forbush, 6;
East East Bend, 4; West East
Bend, 6; North Fall Creek, 7;
South Fall Creek, 7; total dele
gates in convention, 96.
All Republican voters, includ
ing all the ladies, are invited to
attend the precinct meetings and
county convention.
This March 18, 1940.
WALTER ZACHARY, Chairman,
RAY MOORE, Secretary. 3-28
Aged Yadkinville
Lady Passes Friday;
Funeral Saturday
Miss Lelia Thomasson, an aged
and respected lady of Yadkinville,
died Friday at her home next to
the Methodist church where she
had lived for many years. She suf
fered a heart attack Thursday
morning and never regained con
sciousness.
“Miss Lelia” as she was known
to- her many friends, was the last
of a family of six children of the
late Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Thomas
son, who moved to Yadkinville
about 100 years ago from the
Valley of Virginia, where the
family had been prominent in
Virginia history, and they brought
with them many records to show
they were related to the family of
George Washington. Others of the
children who have preceeded her
in death were: Mrs. R. E. Holton,
Mrs. Emily Stimpson, Misses Mary
and Sarah Ann Thomasson and a
brother, Emmett Thomasson. All
were bom in Yadkinville. Nearest
relatives living are a niece and
nephew, Mrs. Daisy Craft, Lewis
Becomes Candidate
Franklin Daniel Boone Hard
ing. Yadkinville attorney, was
named 8th District Republican
candidate for Congress at a
meeting of Republicans held at
Lexington Thursday afternoon.
Mr. Harding paid his filing fee
of $100 and is preparing to en
ter the fight.
Mr. Harding is a son of the
late Dr. T. R. Harding and Mrs.
Harding. He is a graduate of
Yadkinville high school and the
University of North Carolina,
A. B. 1925, and attended the
University law school, and has
practiced law in Yadkinville
since 1929. He was once princi
pal of Yadkinville*high school.
He is past master of Yadkin
Masonic Lodge and a member
of the Civitan club; served
three terms as Mayor of Yad
kinville and is now prosecuting
attorney of the Yadkin county
criminal court. He is married
and has one daughter, 3 years
old; is a member of the Meth
odist church and teacher of the
adult Sunday school class.
ville. and Harvey Stimpson, Clem
ons.
Funeral services were held from
the home and Yadkinville Meth
odist church Saturday afternoon,
with Rev. J. H. Green, Rev. G. W.
Edgerton and Rev. R. L. West in
charge. Burial followed in the
family plot in Yadkinville (Mac
kie) cemetery.
Examination for
Yadkinville P. O.
On March 30
About 20 applicants will take
the examination for Postmaster
at Yadkinville, which examina
tion will be held at Elkin post
office on March 30, according to
notices received here.
The term of postmaster C. N.
Dobbins expires soon and his suc
cessor will be picked from the
three highest graders of the field.
Mr. Dobbins is among the num
ber taking the examination and
will try for the place again.
YADKIN MEN TO
BUILD MODERN
RACING TRACK
Mile Long Dirt Track Under
Construction Near
High Point
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WORK IS UNDER WAY
This section of North Carolina
is to have a new and modem dirt
track speedway for automobile
racing, if plans of three Yadkin
men and one Winston-Salem man
go through and they are off to a
good start. The new speedway is
to be located in the circle between
Winston-Salem, High Point and
Greensboro and will be the largest
one between Pittsburgh, Pa., and
Atlanta, Ga.
The High Point Motor Speed
way corpdration has received its
charter, and work will begin on
construction of track, grandstand,
etc., this week. Incorporators are
three Yadkinville brothers, C. N.
Baity, who is president of the new
enterprize, Lindsey G., W. G.
Baity, and W. T. Surrat, of Win
ston-Salem, N. C. The three
brothers have been interested in
auto racing for several years and
all of them have been on the
tracks themselves. At home they
comprise the Baity Basket Co.,
manufactureers of tobacco bas
kets, the largest of its kind in the
world.
The track will be one mile in
length and will be properly bank
ed for speed. Lindsey G. Baity,
manager of the company, stated
here that 100 miles an hour could
well be made on a track of this
length and build and frequently
as high as 105 miles an hour. At
lanta, Ga., has a track of this
length and there is one near Pitts
burgh, Pa.
They state that work will begin
on the track this week and is ex
pected to be completed in time
for a race in June or on July 4.
The races will be AAA sanctioned
and a charter has been granted
by the American Automobile As
sociation for these races. Plans
call for the regular racing cars
and also for stock car races.
The track will be constructed
five miles out of High Point,
northeast, and one mile off the
Winston-Salem-High Point high
way, where the company has pur
chased 140 acres of land to be
used for the track and buildings.
Plans for a grandstand to seat
eight or ten thousand people have
been drawn and lumber is being
prepared now.
Tommy had been playing with
his sister in the garden and their
screams had attracted mother.
“What are you doing, chil
dren?1' she asked.
“We’re playing Red Indians
and I’m scalping Betty,’’ replied
Tommy.
“You’re doing what?”
“Oh, I’m not really scalping
her properly—just taking her
hair off with the shears!”
Mighty Air Attack
UnderWay On Nazi
Sylt Island Base
New Board Of
Elections Will
Meet Saturday
The Yadkin county Board of
Elections has been announced
by the State board as follows:
Troy W. Martin, East Bend, Fred
Brandon, Yadkinville, Democrats.!
and C. O. Reavis, Yadkinville,]
Republican.
The new board will meet in
Yadkinville Saturday morning at j
11 o’clock when they will be
sworn in by Clerk of Court J. L. j
Crater, They will then meet and
organize.
Either a new registration, or a
revision and relisting is manda- i
tory in each county this year, ac
cording to instructions of the
state board, under an act of the
1939 General Assembly.
Yadkin board members have
been notified the chairman and j
secretary must attend a regional;
meeting at Statesville March 26.1
for a general discussion of the
law concerning the new registra
tion or revision and relisting of
voters. Election officials of 22
counties will attend the States
ville meeting, which will be held
in the courthouse there at 11
o’clock in the morning.
NEW SYSTEM
FORPpiARY
Legislature Changes Law in
Regards to Registration
for Elections
HAVE SEPARATE BOOKS
By W. A. Lucas, Chairman State
Board of Elections
One of the far reaching changes
in the election laws made by the
1939 General Assembly has to do
with the setting up a new system
of registration in primary elec
tions.
Heretofore, only the general
election registration book has been
used for both primaries and elec
tions. Under the law there will
be separate registration books for
primaries and elections.
The voter will be entered on the
primary registration book of the
party of which he is a member
and hereafter only the primary
registration books will be furnish
ed the reigistrars for the prim
aries.
There will be either a complete
relisting of voters or a new regi
stration in each county in the
state, as may be determined by
the County Board of Elections of
each county, at the meeting of
such on Saturday, March 23rd.
In those counties in which a
new registration is ordered the
books will be open during the
usual registration period before
the May primary.
In the new registration the
voter will be registered on the
general registration book and also
on the appropriate primary regis
tration book in accordance with
his party affiliation.
Independents will not be regis
tered on any primary book.
In those counties in which a
relisting of voters instead of a
new registration shall be ordered,
the Chairman of the County
Board of Elections, with such as
sistance as may be necessary, will
begin on April 2nd to transcribe
to new general registration books
the names of all persons shown by
poll books to have voted in the
elections or primaries of 1936 and
1938.
A list of all names on the old
registration books, not shown by
the poll books to have voted, will be
published or advertised and such
as are thus published or adver
tised will have to appear during
the regular registration period and
show their right to remain regis
tered. After the names have been
relisted on new registration books,
separate primary registration
books will be made by the County
Election Board Chairman.
A new registration must be held
in all precincts where the poll
books of 1936 and 1938 cannot be
found.
TONS OF BOMBS
DROPPED; RAID
IS IN REVENGE
Many British Planes Thought
in Action
GERMANS DENY SUCCESS
First Raid Continues for 7
Hours, doing “Extensive
Damage”
IS GREATEST OF WAR
Tonder, Denmark March 20.—
The British attack on the German
base on Sylt Island was fesumed
today apparently with violence
almost equal to the great 7-hour
raid of last night and riiis morn
ing. Indications from the Danish
coast, only a few miles from Sylt,
were that British bombers were
sweeping back and forth over the
narrow island in six attacking
units.
The sounds of exploding bombs
rolled in over Denmark’s coastal
settlements, leading to belief that
many planes were in action, al
though accurate determination
was impossible.
Observers, unable to see clear
ly, judged the number of attack
ing units by the successive waves
of bomb explosions accompanied
by terrific anti-aircraft fire.
FIRST BOMBING
London. March 20.—Royal Air
Force planes bombed Germany’s
heavily fortified Sylt Island air
base for seven hours during the
night and according to the air
ministry, did “most extensive
damage.”
In the biggest raid of the war
and one of the most persistent, the
British planes dropped bombs on
the long, narrow, North Sea coast
island from 8 o’clock last night
until 3 o’clock this morning.
The last of the raiding planes
returned to base at 6:30 a. m.
(12:30 a.m., e.s.t.), 10 hours and
30 minutes after the first bomb6
were dropped, it was announced.
GERMAN REPORT
Berlin, March 20.— Informed
German sources today challenged
the British announcement that
last night’s raid on the German
island of Sylt was a big success,
but admitted that it lasted from
8 p.m. till 2:40 a.m. (2 p.m. to
8:40 p.m., e.s.t.)
DNB, the official German news
agency, described the British an
nouncements as “propaganda ac
tion aimed at erasing the prevad
ing impression that the German
raids on Scapa Flow (last Satur
day) made not only on neutral
countries but also in Great Bri
tain.”^|it
The DNB report said that British
had made no mention of violating
Danish territory and dropping in
cendiary bombs over that country.
Moxley Home Goes
To Yadkin County;
Houses Co. Agent
The former home of Sheriff C.
E. Moxley, one-half block east of
the court house square, has been
taken over by the County of Yad
kin and is now occupied by the
county agent’s office and the
home demonstration office.
The force of workers moved
into the Moxley building Monday
night and announce they will re
main open until 11 o’clock each
night until April 1, in order to
finish certain work.
In the transfer the estate of
Sheriff Moxley was given credit
for certain amounts which the
ex-Sheriff had claimed was due
him by his having advanced cer
tain taxes while serving as sheriff
of the county.
CAftB OF THANKS
We wish to thank our friends
and neighbors for their kindness
during the sickness and after the
death of our father, John Henry
Renegar.
MRS. FRED SPEER AND
FAMILY.
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