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YOL. XLVIII
YADKINVILLE, YADKIN COUNTY, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1940 *
No. 44
LATE
NEWS
IN
BRIEF
From
the
State
and
Nation
STATE
TOBACCO sold steady in
North Carolina and Virginia
yesterday with averages hold
ing up better than expected in
several towns. All floors were
cleared at Mt. Airy as a sale of
Approximately 130,000 pounds
averaged an estimated $19 per
hundred. Good tobacco sold
firm with less poor leaf on the
market.
RALEIGH. Oct. 29 — The
highest number assigned any
registrant in North Carolina
thus far by a local draft board
is 5,550, allotted by Guilford
board number three. The
smallest total number listed in
any one draft board area is
581 in Camden county. There
are 155 draft boards in the
state.
NATIONAL
‘ WASHINGTON. Oct. 29 —
President Roosevelt decided to
day to await more complete
information from the Balkans
before invoking the neutrality
act, with its cash and carry
provisions, in the war between
Greece and Italy. Stephen
Early, White House secretary,
said the President had been
advised to take this course by
Secretary of State Hull and
Sumner Welles, undersecretary
of state. Hull and Welles twice
conferred with Mr. Roosevelt
during the day. They were
said to have canvassed the
foreign situation in the light
of Balkan developments.
NEW YORK, Oct. 29—Bri
ish and American citizens in
Athens, Greece, are forming a
Greek international brigade,
the British Broadcasting cor
poration said today in a
broadcast heard by NBC. The
BBC quoted an Athens dis
patch. Twenty British airmen
interned by Greece have been
released, BBC also said.
INTERNATIONAL
CAIRO, Egypt. Oct. 29. —
Italy’s plan to attack Greece
this week was known to both
the Greeks and the British
seven days before the Italian
ultimatum was served and
steps to meet it were taken at
once throughout the near east,
it was learned today on high
authority. This source said the
axis powers “idea in attempt
ing to occupy Greece was to
make that country the jump
ing off place for a drive in the
eastern Mediterranean."
LONDON, Oct. 29 — British
naval planes speeding to the
help of Italian-invaded Greece
"bombed an Italian air base in
the Dodecanese islands, near
est threat to Athens, the ad
miralty announced tonight as
reports were heard that Ger
many was concentrating troops
for a possible Balkan offensive.
Germany has put 70 army di
visions—or about 1,250,000 men
— into southeastern Europe,
apparently to make certain
that Russia does not interfere
with nazi plans in that area, a
British military expert said to
day.
TURKEY may soon receive
an ultimatum similar to that
which Italy served on Greece,
the semi-official Berlin com
m e n t a r y Diplomatisch Poll
tische Korrespohdenz intimat
ed early today, while British
naval planes bombed an Ital
ian air base and anuhunition
dump on Stampalia island in
the eastern Mediterranean in
England’s first officially an
nounced blow to aid Greece. A
hangar was fired, the airplane
slipway damaged by a direct
hit, and numerous explosions
touched off by the British at
tack on this nearest air threat
to Athens, capital of Greece.
The British also were reported
to have landed on ancient Cor
' fu, Greek island at the en
' trance of the Adriatic sea be
tween Greece and Italy. Pos
session of air bases on this
island would enable the Bri
tish to spray explosives on the
nearby Albanian - Greek fron
tier where Italian and Greek
r troops are fighting, and on the
Italian ''heel” 70 miles, west.
COMBINED AXIS
DRIVE FEARED
Stubborn Greeks Halt Pre
liminary Rush of Italian
Forces
MINE FIELDS ARE LAID
Great Britain and Greece
fought off preliminary axis stabs
into the Balkans Wednesday but
heavy movement of German re
inforcements threatened stronger
blows in a general Mediterranean
offensive that may extend from
Suez to Gibraltar.
The first move of the British
navy in defense of Greece, it was
disclosed officially in London,
was to lay mines protecting the
gulfs of Patras and Corinth and
the gulf of Aegina. This drew a
barrier around the Corinth land
bridge between northern Greece
and the Peloponnese and guarded
against any attempt by the Ital
ians to break Greece in two by a
surprise attack on the Corinth
zone.
Sharp patrol fighting was re
ported in the mountains of Greece
as Italian forces sought to drive
in from Albania toward the im
portant port of Salonika, which
the British were believed likely to
seek as a base for a counterof
fensive in southeastern Europe.
Greek defense forces were re
ported at Athens to be holding
firm at most points along the
mountainous frontier and inflict
ing considerable casualties on
the Fascist troops, despite use of
Italian airplanes and mountain
artillery. Reports by way of Bel
grade continued to indicate that
an Albanian revolt might be hin
dering the Fascist advance.
Mrs. C. S. Benbow
Claimed by Death
At East Bend
Mrs. Minervia Benbow, aged and
respected lady of East Bend, died
at her tiome there about noon yes
terday after an illness of many
months, during which time she
was an invalid. Her condition had
been serious for three weeks. She
was about 82 years old. Her
friends called her “Aunt Nerve.”
Mrs. Benbow was the widow of
the late Santford Benbow, of the
well known Benbow family of East
Bend. Survivors include one son,
Charlie Sant Benbow of Ashboro;
six daughters, Mrs. Mollie Spill
man, Mrs. Annie Pressnel, Misses
Bettie and Eunice Benbow, all of
East Bend; Mrs. Mattie Davis and
Mrs. Dorcas Kelly of Ashboro; and
a number of grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements were in
complete last night.
Death Claims
Vestal Hutchens
Vestal Hutchens, 73, died at the
home of a friend, Ed Bullen, near
Richmond Hill Baptist church,
Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
He had been in declining health
for a year. Death followed a
stroke of. paarlysis.
Although a native of Surry
county, Mr. Hutchens had lived
in the Richmond Hill community
for 25 years. During the past
year he had lived at Lone Hick
ory.
Twice married, his first wife,
Mrs. Martha Leonard Hutchens,
died in 1917. His second wife,
Mrs. Missouri Jester Hutchens,
survives.
Other survivors include six
sons, Early and Oscar Hutchens,
Courtney; Floyd Hutchens, Gary,
W. Va.; Leonard Hutchens, Boon
ville; Foy and Troy Hutchens,
Yadkinville; seven daughters,
Mrs. W. M. Crouse, Winston
Salem; Mrs. Ola Mickles, Yadkin -
ville; Mrs. Letha Reece, Boon
ville; Misses1 Sadie, Irene and
Louise Hutchens, and Mrs. Gen
eva Brandon, Yadkinville; nine
stepchildren; 20 grandchildren,
and one great-grandchild.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at the Richmond Hill Baptist
church, of which he was a mem
ber, Monday afternoon at 2:00
o’clock. Rev. E. C. Norman, pas
tor, and Rev. Will Crissman were
in charge. The Junior Order was
in charge of the committal ser
vice.
Soybean production this year is
indicated to be 81,500,000 bushels,
approximately £,000,000 bushels
below the 1939 production, esti
mates the U. S. Bureau of Agri
cultural Economics.
First Patient; “Do you think
radio will ever take the place of
the newspaper?”
Second Patient: “No, not en
tirely. You can’t swat flies with
a radio.”
Gorrell Myers, 46,
Claimed By Death;
Funeral Today
Miles Gorrell Myers, former
Yadkin county man and brother
to Mrs. Milas W. Mackie of Yad
kinville, died in a Winston-Salem
hospital at 12:45 Wednesday
morning. He suffered a heart at
tack while talking to his son over
the telephone Saturday morning.
Mr. Myers was bom in Yadkin
county, the youngest son of the
late Rev. T. C. and Emily Williams
Myers. He was educated in the
county schools, Yadkinville Nor
mal school, and North Carolina
State College. He lived in Yad
kin county before going to Wins
ton-Salem where he has been con
nected with the management of
the Robert E. Lee Hotel for a
number of years. He was 46 years
old.
He was a member of the Yadkin
ville Baptist church and Yadkin
ville Masonic Lodge.
Besides the sister, he is 'surviv
ed by his widow,'who was Miss
Minnie Wiesner, and one son,
Gorrell Myers, Jr.
The funeral services will be held
this afternoon at 3 o’clock at
Vogler’s Funeral Chappel, Wins
ton-Salem. The body will lie in
state in the chapel until the hour
of the funeral. Members of the
Yadkinville Masonic lodge will
have charge of the graveside ser
vice. Rev. R. L. West, Dr. Ralph
Herring, pastor First Baptist
church of Winston-Salem and Dr.
Ned Turner, will conduct the ser
vices.
Burial will follow in Forsyth
Memorial Park cemetery.
Hallowe’en Carnival
Tonight at School
The annual Hallowe’en Carni
val of Yadkinville school will be
held at the school building tonight
(Thursday). The grammar grade
teachers are presenting a playlet
entitled “Hobbinzee Gobbinzee”
in the school auditorium at 7:30
p.m.
Immediately after the play,
the gymnasium will be opened
for the carnival. Various games,
such as loop-the-loop, bingo, pen
ny throwing, fishing and many
other amusing games will be open
for the public. Eats and drinks
will be sold. A small admission
fee will be charged at the door.
An invitation is extended to the
public to attend and join in the
fun.
Voters to Decide Fate Tuesday
The voters of the United States will go to the polls next Tuesday
to decide which of the two men above, President Roosevelt, left,
and Wendell L. Willkie, right, they desire to head the nation during
the next four years. Mr. Roosevelt, having served almost eight
years, is seeking a third term. Mr. Willkie, his Republican oppon
ent, is seeking to oust him from the White House.
Republicans To Close
Campaign Saturday With
County-Wide Rally Here
Yadkin county Republicans
plan to close their campaign Sat
urday afternoon in Yadkinville
with a grand, county-wide rally,
beginning at 2:30 o’clock, at
which time Attorney L. L. (Red)
Wall, of Winston-Salem, will be
the principal speaker, with Solici
tor Avalon E. Hall, Senatorial
Candidate Miles F. Shore, and
Hovey Norman, candidate for the
house, making short talks. -All
nominees for county commission
er will be recognized at the same
time.
Attorney Wall is one of the
most forceful speakers in the Re
publican ranks and his address
Sunday School
Convention Nov. 10
The Yadkin county Sunday
school convention will be held at
Boonville Baptist church Sunday,
Nov. 10, beginning at 1 lo’clock.
Dr. I. G. Greer, superintendent
of Mills Home, Thomasville, will
be the principal speaker of the
day. The convention will con
tinue through the day.
SAMPLE BALLOT
For County Officers Yadkin County
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. To vote a straight ticket, mark a cross (X) mark in the circle of
the party you desire to vote for.
2. To vote a mixed ticket, or in other words for candidates of differ
ent party, either omit making a cross (X) mark in the party circle
at the top and mark in the voting square opposite the name of
each candidate on the ballot for whom you wish to vote, or make
a cross (X) mark in the party circle above the name of the party
for some of whose candidates you wish to vote, and then mark in
the voting square opposite the names of any candidates of any
other party for whom you wish to vote.
3. If you tear or deface or wrongfully mark this ballot, return it and
get another.
DEMOCRATIC
FOR A STRAIGHT TICKET
MARK WITHIN THIS CIRCLE
For State Senate, 24th District
[]J.R McCOY
For House of Representatives
□ FRANK M. WOODHOUSE
For Surveyor
□ GEO. SHUGART
For County Commissioner
from North Liberty and
Forbush Precincts
□ DR. H. A. BRANDON
For County Commissioner
from Fall Creek and East
Bend Precincts
□ REV. CHAS. H.
HUTCHENS
For County Commissioner
from Boonville and North
Knobs Precincts
□ J. WADE SHORE
For County Commissioner
from South Knobs and
Buck Shoals Precincts
| | TUTTLE ALLEN
For County Commissioner
from Deep Creek and South
Liberty Precincts
□ D. A. REYNOLDS
■REPUBLICAN
FOR A STRAIGHT TICKET
MARK WITHIN THIS CIRCLE
For State Senate, 24th District
□ M. F. SHORE
Fop House of Representatives
[[] HOVEY NORMAN
For Surveyor
Q L. A. SHORE
For County Commissioner
from North Liberty and
Forbush Precincts
□ B. H. DINKINS
For County Commissioner
from Fall Creek and East
Bend Precincts
□ D. A. SMITHERMAN
For County Commissioner
from Boonville and North
Knobs Precincts
□ C. G. MATHIS
For County Commissioner
from South Knobs and
Buck Shoals Precincts
□ J. W. GARNER
For County Commissioner
from Deep Creek and South
Liberty Precincts
□ RAY T. MOORE
T. W. MARTIN
Chairman Yadkin County Board of Elections
will be a treat to all listeners.
Solicitor Hall will discuss local is
sues and his ability as a speaker
is well known.
All voters of whatever faith are
invited to this grand party
which will be the climax to the
warmest campaign in Yadkin
county history.
Sheriff Inscore
Adds Endorsement
To Candidates
Editor The Ripple:
I was glad to see in the Ripple
last week a letter from ex-Sheriff
C. G. Reavis in which he took oc
casion to tell the people of Yad
kin county about Hovey Norman,
the Republican candidate for the
legislature.
Sheriff Reavis is widely known
and respected and with his
knowledge of Mr. Norman, who
served with him as a deputy
sheriff, his endorsement of Mr.
Norman will no doubt carry
much weight over the county.
People know Mr. Reavis and re
spect his opinion.
In this connection I wish to
join Sheriff Reavis in recom
mending Mr. Norman to the peo
ple of Yadkin county. I have
known him for maiiy years and
know him to be an honest, Chris
tian man; a man who loves his
family, attends his church and
Sunday school, and supports ev
ery civic or community move
ment for the betterment of his
county.
Again let me join Sheriff
Reavis in asking all our friends
to support Mr. Norman, and we
firmly believe you will never
have cause to regret it.
I would also like to endorse
Mr. Miles Shore for the Senate
and the Republican candidates
for county commissioner in Yad
kin county. They are all good
men and worthy of your vote.
Let’s elect aH of them and
bring the county government
back to the people—and out of
hands of the bosses.
Signed,
A. L. INSCORE,
Sheriff of Yadkin County
A Message from
Hovey Norman
“Due to a recent illness I
find it impossible, in so short a
time left, to visit the various
sections of Yadkin county I
had intended to.
“However I take this method
of soliciting your vote in the
coming election and I assure
you if elected to the Legisla
ture I will represent every per
son and every section of the
county to the best of my ability
and will be open to the sugges
tions of any of you at all times
with a view of doing the very
best I can for the interests of
Yadkin county and its people.
The only boss I will have will
be the people of the county.
“Again I say I am sorry I
could not see and visit with
more of you people, and assur
ing you I will appreciate your
vote next Tuesday, I am,
Sincerely yours,
HOVEY NORMAN
East Bend, N. C.,
October 29, 1940.
Written Request
Must Be Made for
Absentee Ballots
All voters in this county and in
North Carolina who desire to
vote by absentee ballot because of
absence from the county on the
day of the election, November 5,
or by reason of sickness or other
physical disability, must make
application in writing to the
chairman of the county board of
elections by Saturday, November
2, according to the requirements
of the new absentee ballot law.
This new law that is designed
to eliminate abuse of the ab
sentee ballot, is rigid in its pro
visions.
The applications must be made
in writing and on a blank form as
prescribed by the statute and the
application must be delivered to
the chairman of the board of
elections by the voter, or by a
member of his or her immediate
family or mailed to the election
chairman. *
Upon receipt of the application,
the election chairman certifies
the receipt of the application,
issues ballots that are specially
marked and numbered, gives the
applicant a container envelope
that has an affidavit which the
voter must sign before an official
officer, such as notary public and
clerk of court.
The ballots must be marked by
the voter in front of this officer,
folded and put into the envelope
and sealed. On the other side of
the envelope is written by the
election chairman, the number of
the application, name of voter
and precinct of voter.
These ballots must be return
ed to the election chairman be
fore the day of the election and
he is required to make four copies
of the absentee voters, one of
which is sent to Raleigh, one to
each precinct election official and
one posted at the courthouse.
The ballots can be returned by
mail, by the voter or by an im
mediate member of his family.
On the day of the election, ap
plications for sick absentee bal
lots can be made in the same
way, as outlined above, and must
be voted by three o’clock, if they
are to be counted.
Funeral Is Held
For Dan Martin,
Noted Teacher
Funeral services were held Fri
day morning at ll o’clock at
Yadkinville Baptist church for
Prof. William Dan Martin. 86,
who died Wednesday night at his
home here. Rev. R. L. West and
Rev. W. V. Brown were in charge.
Burial followed in the cemetery
at Sandy Springs Baptist church,
where he was a member. The
body lay in state in the church
from 10 until 11 o’clock.
Mr. Martin was one of the best
known men in the county and
was noted for his work for edu
cation. He began teaching as a
young man and was county su
perintendent of schools three
times at different intervals.
The large number of beautiful
floral wreaths attested to the
high esteem in which he was
held.
Pallbearers were C. W. Hall,
Lon West, C. E. Wallace, J. T.
Reece, E. F. Joyner, Fred Hobson,
W. F. VanHoy and E. H. Barnard.
More Thieves Caught
By Sheriff Inscore
Keeping up his long record of
nabbing thieves whenever they
operate in Yadkin county. Sheriff
A. L. Inscore and his deputies put
a few in the cooler over the week
end.
Friday he placed Ernest An
thony and Virgil Ashley in jail
here on a charge of stealing 40
bushels of rye from John D.
Robertson on Sept. 23. They were
arrested in Martinsville, Va. War
rants are out for Paul Ashley and
Ray Vestal on the same charge.
Sunday morning about 4 o’clock
while looking for other persons
the sheriff and his deputies passed
the filling station of Joe Smith
near Enon when they spied two
persons prowling around the sta
tion. Sheriff can just naturally
smell a thief, so they stopped and
took into custody Roby Lee Dick
erson and Charlie Lester Dicker
son. They had drawn the gas out
of a truck and the gas tank. They
were placed in jail and proved to
be from Reidsville.
All these offenders will be tried
at the Nov. 12, term of Yadkin
criminal court.
TOBACCO
A reduction of more than half
in the Canadian tobacco crop this
year serves to adjust the exces
sive leaf supplies in that country
to the level of domestic consump
tion and export outlets.
LOTTERY GIVES
DRAFT NUMBERS
Marvin Wade Sparks, o f
Cycle, Is dumber 1 Man
* for Yadkin County
DECEMBER NEXT CALL
The drawing of numbers for
the selective service act was com
pleted in Washington early yes
terday morning after 18 hours of
continuous drawing from the
large glass bowl which was used
in 1917.
The first number drawn was
158. In Yadkin county numbers
this means Mr. Marvin Wade
Shores of Cycle. The second was
192. This is Manuel Clem Hol
comb of Cycle also. The third
was Grover A. Huff, of near Yad
kin ville.
The first number drawn in the
world war of 1917 was 258.
One to Go
The local draft board estimates
that Yadkin county’s quota will
be about five in the first call,
four of which have volunteered,
with others expected to volunteer
in the next few days. If these
pass physical examinations, they
will be placed at the head of the
list, and no one will be drafted in
the first call. It is thought the
next call will be in December,
with another one in January. The
number of men drafted will prob
ably increase in the succeeding
drafts as the Army continues to
expand and care for them. The
first quota of men will leave for
Fort Bragg, N. C., and Ft. Jack
son. S. C., about Nov. 18.
The names and serial numbers
of the first fifty persons who
will be drafted from Yadkin
county, and the priority in which
they will be drafted, are as fol
lows:
158 Marvin Wade Sparks
192 Manuel Clem Holcomb
105 Grover Aquillar Huff
188 Richard Wilson Carter
120 Aaron B. Woodruff
846 Charles Davis Branon
161 Carl Taft Vanhoy
14 Rufus Junior Bryant
57 Joe Harding
153 William Paul Doss
19 Thomas Edgar Lewis
766 Yancey Williams Matthews
172 James Arthur Hager
126 Travis Angel
187 Edgar Benton Norman
1854 Sanford Winfield Wooten
167 Bennett Eliza Phillips
1369 James Fuller Barber
162 Robert McDowell
524 James Booker Kimber
147 Johnie Henry Holleman
1300 Jess Wade Wooten
1355 James McCoy Johnson
689 William Carl Turner
1234 Clarence Glenn Shugart
156 Hubert Harrison Hemric
676 Camie Emmett Shugart
112 William Williams Baity
185 Eugene Glenn
1362 Anderson Joe Matthews
108 Calvin George Brown
109 David Brodus Cuzzen
1443 William Vance Davis
184 Kermit Roosevelt Ashley
116 Marvin Lee Shore
174 Edgar Roland
1801 James Hardin Peele
131 John Thomas Norman
1904 Luther Roy Vanhoy
125 Alvin Noel Hicks
138 Wesley Johnson
1937 Jim Clyde Snow
142 Thomas Boles
166 Herman Dedford Wooten
1843 Arlie Lee Dudley
135 Roy Vestal
183 James Howard Watson
148 George Walter Emerson
198 Johnnie Orville Vanhoy
139 Raymond Lee Williard
The East Bend W. M. S. will
meet Saturday, Nov. 2, at the
home of Mrs. R. E. Burchette at
2:30 o’clock. All members are
urged to attend.
Chairman Urges
All Republicans
To Vote Early
In the election of next Tues
day I wish to urge every Re
publican in Yadkin county to
go to the polls and vote just as
early in the day as possible. I
hope that most Republicans
can be voted by noon or short
ly after.
There are several reasons
for this and I urge you to do
this where it is possible. Two
years ago it began raining in
mid-afternoon which prevent
ed many from voting. It will
also give us a chance to check
up on any who have not voted.
Please keep this in mind
everyone do his part and ev
ery Republican candidate in
Yadkin county will be elected.
WALTER ZACHARY,
Chairman Republican Comm.